Ooh
I just discovered that Orange Crate Art was added to ooh.directory earlier this month.
Orange Crate Art
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 “On Monday, the agency will eliminate all but a handful of those unskilled jobs from a long-outdated database used to decide who gets benefits and who is denied, ending a practice that advocates have long decried as unfair and inaccurate.”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.
Recently updated
Sondheim Blackwings at auction, now with a link to the auction catalogue.
“How's Your Mom?”
From a This American Life episode that aired in February: Janelle Taylor addresses the question “How’s Your Mom?” Likely to be helpful to anyone close to a person with dementia.
Turn on your hazard lights (again)
If you’re driving on a highway and the traffic suddenly slows or stops, and the vehicles behind you are at some distance: 1. Turn on your hazard lights. 2. Leave significant space between you and the vehicle in front of you. 3. Keep checking your rear-view mirror. 4. After someone has come up behind you, turn your hazard lights off.
Gibbous
What’s it mean?
One more for Juneteenth
Louis Jordan, “Juneteenth Jamboree.”
Sondheim Blackwings at auction
Three boxes of Stephen Sondheim’s Blackwing pencils have sold at auction for $6,400.
Chatbots and Russian propaganda
Axios reports that “the leading AI chatbots are regurgitating Russian misinformation.”
Willie Mays (1931–2024)
“A name that even people far afield from the baseball world recognized instantly as a national treasure”: from the New York Times obituary.
Juneteenth
Still no stamp.
Margie in 1952
Our friend Margie King Barab, in a 1952 educational film.
“We did not lose it”
Democracy, from a 1943 movie.
Recently unpdated
It turns out that Goodfellas is among Donald Trump’s favorite movies.