Still not smoking
Thirty years!
Orange Crate Art
Unfit, unwell
“My great and unmatched wisdom.”
“It’s always the same”
Commentary on war, from the film No Greater Glory.
Pocket notebook sighting
Dr. Watson and his notebook.
Ginger Baker (1939–2019)
Best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith,
The Glenlivet Capsule Collection
Cocktail capsules. Yeesh.
Recently updated
Adventures in hyphenation.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Disbeliever at heart.”
Domestic comedy
Shibboleth, Illinois.
M’sieur Pierre’s cell
It’s decorated.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Gwen Ifill hosts a discussion in the aftermath if Ferguson.
More war
Coffee, Scotch, cheese.
War on books
Authoritarians, at least most of them, take note of books.
Sharpening
Nabokov on pencil sharpening.
Pencil Town
A movie in the works.
Twelve movies
Out of the Past and others, four sentences each.
Missouri?
How to pronounce it?
A [need past participle] day
It needs posted.
Mystery actor
Do you recognize him?
“Un-Amercian”.
A professor’s attempt at humorous criticism of punctuation.
Grilled-cheese revolution
Butter in the pan.
"An enlightened descendant"
Nabokov on the pencil.
A Robert Johnson obituary
In The New York Times. Not great.
“A Message to You Rudy”
A timely song.
Manhattanhenge
That’s the name for it.
Zippy Psyche
The symbol of White Rock soda.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Stop making excuses.”
Some others
I’ve made this post to memorialize my amazement that things are much, much worse than I’ve imagined.
“The Whistleblower Complaint”
Music for these times by Elaine Fine.
Hyphens and mental health
A tweet from the edge.