“A sole Trude”
All cities, the same city.
Orange Crate Art
The Unmarked Graveyard
New York City’s Hart Island is what’s typically called a potter’s field. Seven of the eight podcast episodes tell the stories of people buried there. One episode tells the story of an artist dedicated to documenting the island’s dead.
Ineligible
News from Colorado.
CleanMyMac X on sale
My only connection to CleanMyMac X is that of a happy user (since 2019).
“Scratches, indentations, scrolls”
From Invisible Cities.
The British Library was hacked
“How ironic that the most quaintly analog form of research possible, using physical books in a physical library, has been devastated by the hijacking of a digital system”: Carolyn Dever tells the story of the Halloween ransomware attack of the British Library.
Jeffrey Foskett (1956–2023)
A man for all seasons, and a key figure among the musicians who brought Brian Wilson back from, well, the wasteland.
Tár pencils: Blackwings
Quite a stash.
A Tár pencil: Caran d’Ache
A Pablo colored pencil from Caran d’Ache.
Some Automats
There are thirty-eight Horn and Hardart Automats in the 1940 Manhattan telephone directory. This has been some of them.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It’s about as old as the club.”
Current events
I am thinking of every post right now as a flight from current events. Those events are always on my mind. But I have no special insight into them.
Waiting for Bob Dylan
Dylan was playing an astonishingly good accompaniment, with all sorts of complex substitute chords. I was, as I said to myself, “agape and aghast” and began recording on my phone.
Exceedingly strange
A strange toy.
11 More Shopping Days
[From I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes, a perfect B-noir.
Orange crate racer
A 1949 project.
iA Writer is not AI
A college prof bans iA Writer. But iA Writer is not an app for AI-generated prose.
“Triptych! Trilogy! Troika!”
Today’s Zippy is all about some rocks.
Recently updated
An NYC tax photograph, now with Arbuckle Coffee.
Pre-Code
A woman dancing on a table, and many bottles in the background.
Pre-Code
Three children smoking.
“Snow”
An xkcd comic.
Twelve movies
Tár (ugh) and others.
Mrs. Dash
Mrs. Dash is now just Dash, as I noticed when shopping this past weekend. The Mrs. disappeared sometime in 2020. That gives you an idea of how often I buy Mrs. Dash.
block=1 AND lot=1
No time for rabbit holes this week; I decided just to use the numbering system for the WPA tax photographs to find a property: block=1 AND lot=1. The building looks like a warehouse of some sort, with the Manhattan Bridge looming overhead.
Today’s Mutts
How many readers will recognize the nod to Jules Feiffer’s dancer?
Penn’s president is out
“Seemed to evade”? No, evaded.
Rockin’ past, present, and future
Brenda Lee’s song, and ours.
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights is in the news. Not a difficult decision to donate.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Boxer’s destination.”