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[Deflating balloon sounds]
In Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy , a speech balloon breathes its last.
Orange Crate Art
Typography of the young
“Italics make it look like the wind’s blowing.”
Misreading
RECORD BUYING BINGE
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A word of the year from Merriam-Webster.
A. Leddy
A name on a nameplate in a movie.
Twelve movies
Pre-Code Divas and others.
Attention education
In The New York Times, three members of the Strother School of Radical Attention make a case for a new way of thinking about education.
Drake Lives
A Paul Drake imitator.
On Chauncey Street
Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Tower with the power.”
Towne Branch subdivision
I photographed this tree — I’m calling it the Towne Branch subdivision — in fall 2020 and again in 2022. In 2023 it continues to be popular with squirrel families.
A joke in the traditional manner
How do birds communicate with distant family and friends?
Thanksgiving 1923
“Pumpkin Pie Cooked With Crust on the Top Astonishes Americans at London Dinner.”
Five and ten and fifteen
A Kresge window with a turkey dinner.
Your work age
A quiz from The Washington Post: “How to tell your real work age.”
The Apostrophe Protection Society
It’s back.
Fn
For Mac users only: Adam Engst explains The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key
Sluggo-head
Zippy meets a Sluggo-head with muffler-man pants in today’s Zippy.
Healing up
was surprised to see “heal up” in the novel Despair.
On the waterfront, continued
Geo-B drew three guys on the waterfront.
Vagaries of shopping (Premium edition)
Might someone have an idea why a store would be wiped out of Premium Saltines days before Thanksgiving? Is there some traditional dish that makes use of them?
Three mascots
In today’s Zippy, three mascots: Gertrude, L’il Softee, and Good Sam.
Being a liberal
Cass Sustein offers thirty-four statements to explain why he is a liberal.
White Rose Tea
Two ads.
On the waterfront
Just some grocery store in the Waterfront District, with a guy who looks like he’s from On the Waterfront.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Modern verification solicitation.”
How to improve writing (no. 115)
One of Joe and my favorite parts about being on the campaign trail is meeting supporters just like you.
DO NOT DISTURB
“Oddly enough, reading has rarely created in me a desire to see more of the world. Reading a work of deeply imagined fiction seems to replace the outer world so completely that I ask nothing except not to be disturbed.”
E.M. Forster on books on Frasier
Words in Niles’s library.