When publications collide
From the April 30 installment of the NPR feature Trump’s Trials: “The jury saw text messages between [Keith] Davidson and leadership at American Media, Inc., which published the National Esquire.”
Orange Crate Art
Mystery actor
Apparently an easy one.
The Record Collector, for sale
Los Angeles’s oldest record store, The Record Collector, is for sale : $4,995,000 for the building, the store’s half millon LPs not included.
Nihilism in disguise
Aaron Rupar warns of nihilism masquerading as leftism.
TypeIt4Me
Typeit4Me is fast, good-looking, and intuitive. It’s plainly great.
Adding links to Pinboard
On a Mac: bookmarklet by Jay Sitter, a Safari extension by Kristof Adriaenssens.
Recently updated
A ping-pong parlor, now with sports betting.
Pharm-speak
“Fainting can also happen.”
“Something” for Duke Ellington’s birthday
“Something” is the fourth section of The Goutleas Suite, recorded April 27, 1971. The suite memorializes Ellington’s 1966 visit to the restored thirteenth-century Château de Goutelas.
On Duke Ellington’s birthday
A PBS documentary in two parts: A Duke Named Ellington. Great archival footage, great interviews with Ellington and other musicians.
Parallel Nancy
In Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy , our heroine takes on the challenge of parallel parking.
Beyond categories
As Duke Ellington said.
Beyond category
Duke Ellington on the music of “his people.”
Fred’s Ping Pong
The Garment District had BILL RDS. It also had television, with spectator sports: baseball, basketball, boxing, hockey, and wrestling. And ping-pong, or ping pong.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Angels fear it.”
Mr. ZIP’s Windy Day
“Young readers will love the interactive lift-the-flap element as they join Mr. ZIP for one windy adventure!”
Domestic comedy
“If we had a dog, and if we put our mailbox down by the front step, then the dog could get the mail for us.”
Orange Crate Art
“The race has ALL-red started!” “All right all-RED!”
Helen Vendler (1933–2024)
The New York Times obituary begins: “In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.” I find it hard to imagine that anyone who spent a lifetime reading and writing about poetry would appreciate such a summary of her work.
Pretty Proustian
Involuntary memory and shifting mountains.
Ernie Bushmiller, man of his time
A Davy Crockett cap.
An improved tube
A toothpaste slogan.
No small step
Trixie was “almost ready” to take a first step yesterday — those words appeared in her thought balloon. But no step today: Hi is at work.
Trixie walks?
I’m not sure if Hi-Lo is toying with us. It could be that Trixie is just standing up.
Look, reader, no glasses
I put a new photograph of my unglassed and several-years-older face in the sidebar. RSS readers, you’ll just have to click through.
Cataract and cataracts
Walking on a sunny morning a couple of weeks ago, with both eyes cataract-free, I began to tear up because everything looked so brilliantly beautiful: the sky, some trees, the pavement. Yes, the pavement.
Almost 58 Pike Street
The Pike Street address is a crucial one in the noir Where the Sidewalk Ends (dir. Otto Preminger, 1950). And in the movie it looks so real. But it’s a set.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Historic High Court decision (7/24/74).”
Belching in public, or too much Curb
Hearing Larry David in Chekhov.
Lambini & Sons
I am happy to see Lambini & Sons in today’s Far Side selection.