Ticonderoga sightings
In the horrible movie The Impossible Years.
Orange Crate Art
Logo change
The world’s oldest logo, a dead lion surrounded by bees, gets a redesign.
The Mississippi John Hurt Museum, gone
NPR reports that the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, was destroyed in a fire last week. There’s already a fundraiser to create a new memorial to Hurt.
Twelve movies
The Sky’s the Limit and others.
Mooch, planning
It’s “Hairball Thursday.”
Criterion in The New York Times
“Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?”
Richard Lewis (1947–2024)
The comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died at the age of seventy-six.
“The little clouds spoke for them”
Cold weather, from Marcovaldo.
“Brrrr”
Nancy is correct. Yesterday: 74°. This morning: 26°, feeling like 9°.
Bic Accountant Fine Point
The BAFP hasn’t been manufactured for some time, and I haven’t written with one in many years. I rediscovered these two in a cup of neglected pens. They’re so old that their caps lack the vent hole that’s meant to reduce the hazard of choking.
A philosophy of art
“Art is the tangled mess of everything we experience but cannot express in any other way”: in today’s Nancy, a philosophy of art.
How to improve writing (no. 118)
“What’s in Store for the Future of Higher Education?”: that’s the subject line in an e-mail from The Chronicle of Higher Education .
A dictionary of rice
In the works, in Japan.
Bumping into an ex-governor
I was walking into an office building, and out came Andrew Cuomo. I recognized him, but it took me a second to put a name to the face.
James Van Der Zee’s studio
A storefront on 7th Avenue.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Musician on the move.”
O, negative!
Paxlovid does its thing.
A strange Apple spelling glitch
Type “snd” in an app in macOS (14.3.1) or iOS (17.3.1), and the non-word isn’t flagged as a misspelling
“Snow!”
From Marcovaldo.
Domestic comedy
“Too bad we don’t have the Container Store.”
The non-breaking hyphen
A lesser-known hero of punctuation,
Sardines × 7
A Reader’s Digest investigative report: “I Ate Sardines Every Day for a Week — Here’s What Happened.”
Sluggo, philosophe
Sluggo channels, kinda, sorta, Montaigne.
“She wasn’t fit to be seen”
A story that has, or should have, a place alongside James Joyce’s “Counterparts” and Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend.
Word of the day: cubeb
Why is someone with tuberculosis smoking anything?
The Beatles with Morecambe and Wise
The complete show is at YT.
Domestic comedy
“It’s a good restaurant. It has these things called ‘eggs’?”
Barry Sachs
One bit of instrument naming I can’t stand: “bari sax.” No one says “al sax” or “ten sax.” Why “bari sax”?
Dream data
This phrase showed up in a dream: “epistemic data.” I have invented two possible meanings.
The Langston Hughes House
20 E. 127th Street.