Scams
Art and dog-walking.
Orange Crate Art
Sluggo goes to a museum
I wonder if five might be the requisite number for “some paintings.”
Overheard
“I love your tattoo. I love aloe vera.”
Phonics again
Everything old is new again.
Stopping at a rest stop with your swim team while black
I think that this story deserves wide attention.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Vague ‘rumeur.’”
Beethoven, anyone?
String quartets, all of them.
Analog rising
“Sales of stationery and cards are actually up among younger and youngish people”: so says Marketplace Morning Report.
Five cyber freedoms
From Print Mag, and in the form of posters, five cyber freedoms.
Valentine’s Day
A heart amulet, ca. 1070–945 B.C.
iOS autocorrect and alcohol
Lemonier Lemonier Glamorous Fleming’s Glamorous Lemonade The name I was trying to enter: Glenmorangie. I think that John Gruber is correct: autocorrect is drunk, and it’s only 8:17 in the morning. And it’s gonna stay drunk all day.
Is there one in Hawkins?
Aldi Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles are better than Eggo Homestyle Waffles. Is there an Aldi in Hawkins?
Oxford and its comma
CMOS Shop Talk, from The Chicago Manual of Style, presents the history of the Oxford comma.
Campaign typography
George Butterick (as in Butterick’s Practical Typography) considers the campaign logos of Democratic presidential candidates.
Joseph Shabalala (1941–2020)
The founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Nancy, champeen
The ghosts of my grandparents are speaking through Nancy.
Homer, revised
How best to end infighting among Democratic candidates? Have Athena step in, raising a shout that stops “all fighters in their tracks.”
“The art of scything”
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a beautiful novel, and a perfect antidote to To the Lighthouse.
A grand cake
Nancy likes a cake.
Whale, oil, beef, hooked
A quick lesson in how to do an Irish accent.
Recently updated
Orson Bean’s later-life swerve to the right, unmentioned in his New York Times obituary.
Orson Bean (1928–2020)
A regular presence on TV in my childhood. He later swerved very far right.
Bleach, please
I need to rinse my eyes.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“They’re taken when leaving home.”
Stephen Joyce (1932–2020)
Not a good guy.
Domestic comedy
”It’s not like a shibboleth — except among the astronauts.”
Sherrod Brown on fear and power
Sherrod Brown: “For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator.”
Unhinged and wired
Sniff. Sniff. Sniff.
Shredding
“He has shredded the truth in his speech. He’s shredding the Constitution in his conduct. I shredded his State of His Mind address.”
Rituals and talismans
The Washington Post reports on ballet rituals and talismans.