Orange Crate Art

Katherine Gergen Barnett, David Gergen’s daughter, wrote down her father’s fleetingly lucid thoughts.

All by himself.

From The Power Broker: “The Casino was Jimmy Walker’s Versailles. Friends joked that the Mayor spent more time there than he did at City Hall.”

Today, in Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy, a speech balloon becomes a cloud.

Getting a prescription and thinking about James Brown.

Martin Dressler walking around the city and imagining its possibilities is a nineteenth-century version of Robert Moses walking around his New York. The difference is that Dressler imagines the vertical possibilities; Moses, the horizontal ones.

Robert Moses with a Mongol pencil, as seen in “City of Tomorrow,” the sixth episode of Ken Burns’s New York: A Documentary Film (2001).

Time passes.

From 1936, a joke on Sen-Sen.

This building, at the southeast corner of 46th Street and 3rd Avenue, was one of many that were destroyed to make room fo Robert Caro’s Gowanus Parkway.

The druggist whose pharmacy was torn down to make room for the Gowanus Parkway. A 1936 Brooklyn Eagle article.

“What some desks and dungarees are made with.”

In 2014, Robert Caro wrote that Robert Moses’s racism was “unashamed, unapologetic.” The Power Broker makes that clear.

When I see ordinary human hands on a screen, they’ve begun to look like the work of AI.

It belongs to Sir Evelyn Oakleigh (Arthur Treacher, later of the Fish & Chips), who is collecting American slang — gangster slang, really.

I went to see my old dentist, who was now working as a barber.

Uncapping and recapping the Prius gas tank can create the problem, and uncapping and recapping the gas tank can make the problem go away.

Your group order has been picked up from Chili's Grill & Bar and your Dasher is on the way! :-)

One cease-and-desist order later, Trump’s knock-off Les Pauls are off the market.

The Diner, “No Food Finer.”

Willa Cather was born on this day in 1873. From a letter to William Lyon Phelps, critic and professor, May 29, 1943. Phelps has sent along...

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is, I believe, Kate Chin Park’s third Stumper. Her first prompted me to write “Please, more KCP Stumpers...

Words of the year Now with demure and kakistocracy .

It’s pen and paper bliss in Chicago.