Siebold
And then I saw that I had misspelled Sebald as Siebold.
Orange Crate Art
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Now I think I understand what “gentleman shirts” are.
Twelve movies
Somewhere in the Night and others.
New directions in apparel
“Papa’s gentleman shirts.”
Zippy noir
Beautiful noir art in today’s Zippy.
Slim’s Radio Service
Slim’s Radio Service and other storefronts.
In the Proust aisle
Madeleines in Wal-Mart.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Mac not a PC.”
Marian Robinson (1937–2024)
Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, has died at the age of eighty-six.
187 years
In his Queeg-like ravings just now, Donald Trump suggested that he may be going to jail for 187 years.
Allay!
“I’m gonna allay! I’ll allay!”
Know the difference
Between Thelonious and Felonious.
The verdict
Guilty, on all thirty-four felony counts.
“Lists!!!”
From This American Life: “Lists!!!” And other lists.
Cursive Peanuts
Peppermint Patty snores in cursive.
Flooring
That institutional-looking floor tile in the Trump-trial courtroom — it’s the same non-descript stuff found in the building where I taught for thirty years.
“Inherently and irredeemably unreliable narrators”
“All large language models, by the very nature of their architecture, are inherently and irredeemably unreliable narrators,” said Grady Booch, a renowned computer scientist.
Chekhov and Joyce
A passage from “Three Years” that presages one in “Eveline.”
In it and of it?
“Do you have any pens that need filled?”
Block that metaphor
Cutting loose a hot potato.
How I write certain of my blog posts
I’m always interested in seeing the materials of writing, so I thought it’d be interesting to show the materials that went into a post about Anne Curzan’s Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words. Why not? A notebook, gel pen, blue pencil, legal pad, fountain pen, and text editor.
The tells
A scam. How many tells can you tell?
Wild strawberries
I think I have finally figured out what interests the deer who visit the back of our backyard: Fragaria vesca, or wild strawberries. They’re why the deer appear so choosy as they browse the ground.
Memorial Day
A photograph by Esther Bubley
Sunday in the park with geese
After Seurat.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Grammy’s British equivalent.”
FART
An Infinite Jest-worthy acronym.
&udm=14
An AI-free Google search.
A font for jokes
From Hacks: “I put the jokes in Comic Sans so you know they’re supposed to be funny.”
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Another “Happy Reunion.”