“Philosophic Guide”
A signboard from a movie.
Orange Crate Art
Connecting dots
Data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom, conspiracy theory.
How to improve writing (no. 119)
The Washington Post seems to think that only disability advocates see mockery of a stutter as bullying.
Mystery actor
Who?
Domestic comedy
“Think of all the money we’ve saved on dry cleaning.”
Katie Britt is a dirty no-good rotten liar
Pass it on.
A golden pig
I enjoyed an outstanding porketta sandwich last week, and it brought to mind somthing I hit upon a few months ago, a tax photograph of a Brooklyn pork store, Suino d’Oro.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Extra ambition.”
PBS priorities, good grief
When the PBS NewsHour panel began its analysis of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last night, the first question Geoff Bennett put to Lisa Desjardins, reporting from the House chamber was not about what the president said. It was about the interruptions.
Keyword: all
I liked these sentences from the end of the State of the Union address best: “Above all, I see a future for all Americans. I see a country for all Americans. And I will always be president for all Americans, because I believe in America.”
Recently updated
Word of the day: lukewarm. Now with its own faucet.
John McWhorter on prepositions
John McWhorter in The New York Times, stating what ought to be obvious: “The ‘Rule’ Against Ending Sentences With Prepositions Has Always Been Silly.”
José Andrés on sardines
“Oh my God, they are so good that you wish you were inside the can with them”
Slam the Scam
The Social Security Administration announces National Slam the Scam Day.
Vision Pro Television
A simulacrum within a simulacrum.
“Bad news about Biden”
“The New York Times has apparently devoted half a floor in its Eighth Avenue headquarters to a search for bad news about Biden, and then they reserve a space nearly every day above the fold on the front page for whatever grain of grim shit the Biden hunters have managed to come up with.”
Word of the day: lukewarm
The directions that come with a Waterpik say to use lukewarm water. Whence lukewarm ?
Postal consolidation
The United States Postal Service is planning to “consolidate” thirty processing and distribution centers. In Illinois, four processing and distribution centers outside of Chicago are slated for consolidation. That seems to mean that all outgoing mail will be processed in Chicago and environs. Snail mail indeed.
Paying attention
From yesterday’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American .
“The true noises of the night-time city”
Italo Calvino and David Foster Wallace on night noises.
A joke in a neo-traditional manner
Why does “dinosaur” start with “d”?
Leggings
Is today’s strip, in which Little Zippy draws his favorite cartoon character, a comment on Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy?
An EXchange name sighting
MEDeric and, later, MEDicis were both Paris EXchange names.
Full-page screenshots in iOS and macOS
Here’s how to take a screenshot of a full page in iOS and macOS (Cult of Mac). These tricks will save someone the tedious work of pasting together parts to make a large whole.
Letters listing
Synchronicity: There are letters listing in today’s OCA tax photograph — the U and T of HAIRCUT. And there’s a letter listing in Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy today: a Z that tilts into an N.
Shave and a haircut
A Bowery barber school.
A cognitive test to be president
At The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri offers a cognitive test to be president.
Iris Apfel (1921–2024)
Elaine and I have two degrees of separation from Iris Apfel.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Iceberg’s destination, sometimes.”
A missing painting
The theft of a Vermeer, missing from a New York Times story.