Fare forward, Brian Wilson
Sad news, as reported in The New York Times: “Brian Wilson’s Family Seeks to Place Him Under a Conservatorship.”
Orange Crate Art
Today’s Saturday Stumper
45-A, seven letters, “Traditional place for lesser courses.”
“To err is human”
A passage from page 87 of Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision is getting considerable attetion: “The English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) first declared, ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine.‘” Actually, it’s “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” But to err is human.
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Engoron!
Biden on Navalny
“People in Russia and around the world are mourning Navlany today because he was so many things that Putin is not. He was brave, he was principled, he was dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed and where it applied to everybody. Navlany believed in that Russia, that Russia. He knew it was a cause worth fighting for and, obviously, even dying for.”
Mystery actor
I knew he was in the movie, but I did not recognize him.
Wilheminia Wiggins Fernandez (1949–2024)
She sang “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” from Alfredo Catalani’s opera La Wally in Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 film Diva.
Struggling to read
Adam Kotsko writes about the decline in college students’ reading ability.
WATCH YOUR STEP
From The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946). Cinematography by Elwood Bredell.
Twelve movies
Barbie and others.
“The hash of that Paul Pry”
So reminiscent of Eudora Welty’s 1941 story “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Valentine’s Day
An ancient Egyptian amulet.
Nancy en español
And an Argentinian imitator: Mafalda.
Yamandu Costa, coming to New Jersey
On June 8, 2024, Yamandu Costa will perform at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. He’s the greatest guitarist I’ve ever heard.
Recently updated
Billie Holiday’s residence: Now with an apartment number and the 1940 census.
“The five-and-dime !”
“Five-and-dime” or “ten-cent store”?
Our tube
Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
Billie Holiday’s residence
286 West 142nd Street.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Word from Greek for ‘tattoo.’”
Zembla casts a spell
Spelling out Zembla in the NYT Spelling Bee.
Recently updated
Brew, broth, bread, and beer.
Grand old plays and sewing machines
The student as customer.
Brew, broth, bread
Oh the things we talk about at the breakfast table. They’re related words.
Taylor Swift and the apostrophe
The New York Times addresses a burning question of the day: Should there be an apostrophe in the title of Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album Tortured Poets Department ?
Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
“When he asked if I was a Communist, I told him I was a Republican, and at the end of the conversation, I found myself working for The Museum of Modern Art.”
“Pickleball infrastructure?”
I show up in Zippy.
An NYT Vision Pro review
“After using the headset for about five days, I’m unconvinced that people will get much value from it”: Brian X. Chen reviews Apple’s Vision Pro.
Recently updated
The Moleskine story, resolved.
A Jerry Craft Zoom
What I learned.
Sonny Rollins’s notebooks
“One day in the future people will be saying ‘Yes I once saw Sonny Rollins.’”