“Language that will clarify”
In The New York Times, a plea from thirty-three writers: “Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand.” “Bribery” or “extortion.” Not “quid pro quo.”
Orange Crate Art
“89.9, Manahawkin”
A lonely tower standing at the edge of a field in some tiny village.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“What cats crave.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, and the Atomic Bomb.”
How to ruin “English,” one small example
I looked, from morbid curiosity, to see what one dreadful book says about that passage from “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period.”
“A visitor in a garden”
From J.D. Salinger’s “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period.”
Is guys a pronoun?
I am puzzled as to why anyone would consider guys a pronoun.
Soup’s on
Nancy, Sluggo, and soup.
The Eye of Sauron in the news
“In the Trump administration, if the Eye is looking at you, it’s basically all hope is lost.”
“Letter-writing types”
From J.D. Salinger’s “For Esmé — with Love and Squalor.”
Duane who?
Duane Reade drugstores are disappearing from New York City.
Hi and Lois lore
Eight things you might not know about Hi and Lois.
“What we make happen”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
Kentucky
Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining, or shinin’. I hope.
No NYT
Florida men.
¡Spangled!
All-American song of the highest order.
J.D. Salinger, the exhibit
If you’re so disposed (I wasn’t), you can step to the side of the case, turn, crouch, and attempt to see the world through J.D. Salinger’s lenses.
LAFDF
The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation is accepting donations.
Walter Mercado (1932?–2019)
I’d describe Walter Mercado as something of a cross between Liberace and Fulton Sheen. Regalia and piercing eyes.
Another delegitimatize
The thought of Trump and The New Yorker being on the same page usage-wise is, as a wishy-washy observer of politics might say, “troubling.”
TMH
A colorist fail.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“General Pencil product.”
New “words”
Apprenti : like alumni ?
“Something there is,” &c.
As the poet said, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” It’s called a reciprocating saw.
Patience, Fortitude, and feet
Patience and Fortitude are back. And the happy foot/sad foot sign has a home.
The Art Theater
Goodbye, Art Theater. Thanks for the movies.
“Somewhere in time”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
“Pick a season”
George Bodmer has the perfect cartoon for our midwestern weather.
Fountain Pen Day
“A time to embrace, promote, and share the use of fountain pens.” They forgot “sell.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
“Edward Gorey’s Mysterious Animations.”