Hallmark rising
The New Yorker looks at the Hallmark Channel(s).
Orange Crate Art
You’re out
Yesterday our local paper published USDA guidelines for when to toss Thanksgiving leftovers.
Robots writing
The Washington Post reports on Handwrytten, a robot-driven card-writing service.
Land O’Lines
Roger Cohen and Virginia Heffernan on the landline.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“New Yorker’s hero.”
How to improve writing (no. 85)
An odd sentence from The New Yorker.
A digital timer
The Ozeri Kitchen and Event Timer. Solid construction, clear display, and a loud, really loud, beep.
An analog timer
The Dulton Kitchen Timer. Solid metal construction and a happy jingling alarm.
Fred Astaire’s shadow
We wandered the building and found a long wall against which we could make shadows. Mine looked like Fred Astaire’s.
“Queens man impeached”
That’s the headline from the Queens Daily Eagle, which is having fun keeping the news local.
“We”
The presidential plural.
“The world in our conceit of it”
William Hazlitt and Saul Steinberg.
Library fight
The Washington Post reports on the battle over “Little Free Library” — the battle, that is, over the name, a legal trademark.
Trump*
Donald Trump has been impeached, and whatever happens in the United States Senate, this president’s name will henceforth be accompanied by a stain. Or a taint. Or an asterisk.
An idea
“What is at risk here is the very idea of America”: Adam Schiff.
A visit to a sardine cannery
A short film documenting a visit to the Conservas Pinhais sardine cannery.
Defending cursive
“A Defense of Cursive, From a 10-Year-Old National Champion” (The New York Times).
The night before
Impeachment Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was!
Tunes, looney
“You showed no remorse, Charlie Brown, no capacity for self-reflection!”
Pocket notebook sighting
From Crossing Delancey.
The Lincoln Project
A Times opinion piece by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson, “We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated,” announces the Lincoln Project.
Bryan Garner leaves the party
No longer a Republican.
Twelve movies
Motherless Brooklyn and others.
“Snow again”
Nancy hates snow.
A short paws
Chicken paws are, indeed, not feet.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Something set to keep things in line.”
Novels in Three Lines
Brief news items, miniature narratives of crime, misadventure, and mystery.
Pat the chair
Have you noticed how often Jerrold Nadler’s Democratic colleagues give him a pat on the back as he makes his way to or from his place as chair of the House Judiciary Committee? In such a toxic environment, the human touch must help.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “What Does WGBH Stand For?”
All dais long
They keep saying ˈdī-əs.