Boo!
Orange, and scary.
Orange Crate Art
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
From WNYC.
Orange train cart
In the New York Public Library.
“Pencils these days”
Dr. Watson’s point broke.
Mystery actor
Who?
Misheard
“... can impale a grand jury ...”
Pocket notebook sighting
Willie Stark’s notebook, a catalogue of grievances, punishments, and opposition research.
All the King’s Whom
“For whom?” “For those whom pay me.”
Humor, humanity, a lawsuit, and ...
Sluggo.
“She was Sanctified holy”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“They may be dueling.”
Some “some rocks”
For a Nancy fan, this remarkable site might be something like Four Corners. It’s some rocks, some rocks, some rocks, all the way down the parking lot.
Haydn on the move
Elaine has been writing about Stephen Malinowski’s animated scores for Beethoven and Haydn. I am following Elaine’s lead and posting this example because it makes me so happy.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “The Voice of the Voiceless,” featuring Mercedes Sosa.
I’m in. You?
White House “press secretary” Stephanie Grisham goes Donald Trump one better in declaring anyone who opposes the leader to be “just that.”
VDP and “Southern Nights”
Allen Touissant: “While I was finishing the album Van Dyke Parks visited me in the studio. He was a wonderful guy, a genius of a guy. He said, ‘Well, consider that you were going to die in two weeks. If you knew that, what would you think you would like to have done?’
Recently updated
The Colorado wall, now with the spin I imagined.
The Colorado wall
“In building a wall in New Mexico, President Trump is also protecting Coloradans from,” &c., &c.
Kinja Deals ad fail
“Why, thank you, Uncle Ned. Thank you, Aunt Jean. You’ve gifted me with the perfect tool for — for — cleaning an AR-15??”
Analog strong
“Never underestimate the power of a State Department guy with a pad and pen”: Anne Gearan, Washington Post reporter, speaking on MSNBC last night.
“Tape Here”
Today’s Nancy.
Teaching Thomas Wolfe
Why had I assigned a novel I hadn’t read?
How to improve writing (no. 84)
Some sentences I wrote.
Hi and Lois watch
Anything can happen in a Hi and Lois interstice.
“Esperanto”
Esperanto. Mark Esperanto.
MacUpdater
MacUpdater checks on updates for apps not from the App Store.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Paul, do you have anything yet on today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper?” “Just one lead so far, Perry: OUZO.”
Domestic comedy
“Does it say anything about lamb?”
New Yorker commas
Turning the pages of a January New Yorker, I noticed this tag at the end of a story: “Translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel.” Only The New Yorker, said I, would use commas there.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “The Time WGBH Burnt Down.”