Orange Crate Art

At Dreamers Rise, resolutions for the new year.

Featuring William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Wanda Gág, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Cole Porter, Ma Rainey, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Virginia Woolf, and many more.

No ticklers allowed.

A free menu-bar app for macOS.

Robert Moses’s racism.

In the Robert Moses universe, playground design allowed for little variation.

From Ephemeral New York, a wood phone booth , complete with phone, in a bar on St. Marks Place.

One and done.

He lived a good life, a life of uncommon decency, and there’s probably some grace in its ending before our next national nightmare officially begins.

In today’s installment of Letters from an American , Heather Cox Richardson reflects on the Wounded Knee Massacre.

285 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

“Special feature.”

Our garbage service has, finally, abandoned its dot-matrix printer and tractor-feed perforated forms for a laser printer and shiny multi-color forms.

Smart, respectful, not a moment wasted. It’s one of the best podcasts I’ve heard.

The problem is in macOS 15, and I find it almost unbelievable that Apple could release new system software with such a glaring problem.

“Even if he only had one guest, he would always have six or eight of his ‘Moses Men’ — ‘my muchachos,’ he used to call them — at the table and it was all ‘Yes, sir, RM,’ ‘No, sir, RM,’ ‘Right as usual, RM!’ When he laughed, they laughed, only louder — you know what I mean. Christ, when he made a statement, you could look around the table and see eight heads nodding practically in unison. It was like a goddamned Greek chorus.”

From Shopworn (dir. Nick Grinde, 1932).

A giant of linguistics.

From 1929, it’s the Cotton Top Sanctified Singers, with “Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn.”

“Nurse, Santy Claus ain't got a brother, has he?”

What did Santa pay for his sleigh?

Pre-Code Columbias and others.

“Best known to international audiences for her work with directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto Benigni.”

Posing at Mar-a-Lago with a far-right German politician.

I borrowed Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk from the library. “I want to learn more about our next president,” I told the librarian. She laughed.

In today’s Dustin  : “What’s a magazine?”

Another Third Avenue pharmacy torn down for the Gowanus Parkway.

Zippy wants The Star-Ledger and The Jersey Journal not to die.

New York City subway cars will be losing their orange and yellow seats in 2025 . Replacing them: blue and yellow seats.

“Needle holder” and others.