Great moments in pedagogy
“If there’s a knock at the door you don’t answer it.”
Orange Crate Art
TV as radio
From Tight Spot (dir. Phil Karlson, 1955), spoken by prison inmate Sherry Conley (Ginger Rogers): “Television should be so good that when you close your eyes it sounds like a radio.”
Comic strips in a pandemic
The New York Times looks at comics in the time of the coronavirus.
The perils of inattention
The Washington Post reports that “U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February.”
King Oscar with cracked pepper
If there were such a thing as Szechuan sardines, these would be that thing.
Mystery actor
Do you recognize her?
“Nobles”
Earlier today, Donald Trump* ranted about reporters receiving “Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia.”
Add some letters to your day
The USPS wants you to write letters.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Attired, as circus chimps.”
Lysol and lightbulbs
Executive-level Dunning-Kruger freestyling imbecility, unfiltered.
Nostalgia
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
Meta Zits
A speech balloon, the thinnest of excuses.
Not done yet
In today’s Family Circus, Billy explains punctuation: “That’s a hyphen. It means the word isn’t done yet.”
Science must trump politics
Dr. Rick Bright: “Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.”
Cuomo and Gibbon and others
“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then [they] ceased to be free.” Who wrote/said it?
“Give yourself a coffee-break”
It’s 1952, and the New York Giants are drinking coffee in the dugout.
“The tedium of dangers”
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
Unreadability
Sloppy handwriting and a bank robbery.
“Trust nurses”
“Trust nurses / Go home”: text on a sign held by a Pennsylvania healthcare worker facing off against protesters wanting to “open the country.”
Musgrave ephemera
A vintage catalogue and a vintage advertising brochure.
KeyboardCleanerTool icons
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
“It isn’t over — he is”
Today’s Zippy, timely yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, &c.
Dream headline
“DIY Supermarket Erases Thousands Who Opposed Russia.”
COVID, Covid
COVID, or Covid? The Guardian offers a short commentary on “the comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis.”
Trump*’s two plans
David Frum: “Both Trump’s Plan A and Plan B intend to turn American against American, in an ugly spirit of rancor and resentment.”
Henry Grimes and Giuseppi Logan
Bassist and saxophonist. Each made music again despite great adversity.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘Mighty swell’ Keats poem subject.”
“Butter maiden” retired
The days of Native American “mascots” belong in the past.
“Space enough not to escape”
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.