Eleven movies, one series
Inside Out 2 and others.
Orange Crate Art
Ruth Martin, stickler
“Fine grammar for a college graduate – ‘not me.’”
HCR on Donald J. Trump v. United States
She cites Roberts, Alito, and Kavanaugh as having said that no one is above the law.
Geoffrey Pullum explains it all
“Pullum constantly insists that all modern lexicographers, as well as all grammarians not called Pullum, are wrong about everything, which lends his book a slightly crazed tone of ‘Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying dictionaries?’”
Music, worsening
Rick Beato explains “The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse.”
Drawing cloth and clothing
Today’s Zippy is all about cloth and clothing and the work of the “fine artist.” Bill Griffith is of course an artist and cartoonist both.
Of presidents and kings
Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent.
Crazy weather
“Grab them shades on the way out the door. Precip cast? Fuggedaboudit! I mean, we still need a tall drink of water. I just ain’t happening tonight nor tomorrow.”
Generative AI, trust, and distrust
At Inside Higher Ed, Jacob Riyeff writes about generative AI and its effect on teacher-student relationships. What breaks his heart, he says, are the ways in which AI makes it difficult for him to trust his students.
Apples?
A fruit stand on a Manhattan street.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Trouble spots on radar.”
Martin Mull (1943–2024)
The Fernwood 2 Night episode with Tom Waits is not to be missed.
Ooh
I just discovered that Orange Crate Art was added to ooh.directory earlier this month.
On last night’s debate
Heather Cox Richardson: ”This was not a debate.”
Game changer
I think it’s time to constrain the use of this term.
Diagramming sentences
At the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes writes about “American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century.”
Off the bot
In response to a comment from Matthew Schmeer that describes inventive assignments to keep students from turning in AI-generated writing, I came up with a phrase that I’d like to share: “off the bot,” after “off the grid.” I am thinking and writing off the bot.
“Human interaction might be preferred”
I asked ChatGPT: “What would be some good reasons not to use ChatGPT?”
Domestic comedy
“What does this guy have his high beam on?”
The joys of repetition
“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues as if they were a candy that could last forever.”
Rainbow Quest, all of it
The complete run of Pete Seeger’s 1965–1966 television series Rainbow Quest is at YouTube.
Obsolete jobs now obsolete
“For decades, the Social Security Administration has denied thousands of people disability benefits by claiming they could find jobs that have all but vanished from the U.S. economy — such occupations as nut sorter, pneumatic tube operator and microfilm processor. “On Monday, the agency will eliminate all but a handful of those unskilled jobs from a long-outdated database used to decide who gets benefits and who is denied, ending a practice that advocates have long decried as unfair and inaccurate.”
How to use a dictionary as a weapon
From a 1946 movie: a Merriam-Webster Collegiate as a weapon.
Edith Boebert, Lauren Prickley
Every time I see Lauren Boebert’s face in the news, I try to figure out who it is she looks like. And now I have figured it out. It’s Edith Prickley.
O Pioneer!
The Pioneer Restaurant makes a brief appearance in A.J. Liebling's “Bowery Boom.”
Enrobed Pretzel Rods?
The apples lie close to the trees.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Breakup music?”
$47.47
Mysterious water bills and fambly lore.
Chekhov noir
For one sentence, a story turns into film noir.
NYRB sale
Big savings.