A noir beginning
Ted “Step” Allison (Tom Conway) staggers away from the camera as the movie begins.
Orange Crate Art
Siri and Calendar
Did you know that you can use Siri to add events to Calendar?
Mack McCormick’s Monster
The Smithsonian is revealing more materials from Mack McCormick’s archive of recordings and writings, aka “The Monster.”
James Baldwin’s outlines and doodles
From Jillian Hess’s Noted, a Substack devoted to notebooks and note-taking.
A hate crime in Illinois
The news I woke up to: in a Chicago suburb, a seventy-one-year-old man killed a six-year-old boy and wounded the boy’s mother because they were Muslim.
5 Patchin Place
Home to Djuna Barnes for more than forty years.
“But” speaks
Alexandra Petri, writing in The Washington Post (gift link): “The word ‘But’ asks that it not appear in these sentences.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘Congratulations!’ message source, maybe.”
Zippy, re: Nancy
A diner patron doesn’t get the new Nancy.
Frasier again
Paramount+ has made a series that might appeal to fans of Cheers. I’m not sure how it’s supposed to appeal to fans of Frasier.
“Tortoiseshell cats and champagne”
A passage from Katherine Mansfield.
A “Day of Resistance” toolkit
Nihilism on campuses.
From the future
Frances Farmer, looking fifty years ahead of her time.
Twelve movies
Fyre and others.
Timothy Snyder on terrorism
“Classically, a terrorist provokes a state in order to generate so much suffering among his own people that they will take the terrorist’s side indefinitely.”
Terence Davies (1945–2023)
The screenwriter and director Terence Davies has died at the age of seventy-seven.
Proust and turbines
No wind turbines outside llliers-Combray!
A Bill Griffith talk
About Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy.
Fran and Charles
Fran Lebowitz talks with Doug Doyle about her friendship with Charles Mingus (WBGO). With special appearances by Duke Ellington and an apple pancake.
Harry Smith at the Whitney
At the Whitney Museum of American Art, an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Harry Smith, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith.
Noisy colors
The Washington Post listens to different colors of noise.
Recently updated
A second bookstore behind a bookstore.
“In conclusion”
Today’s Zits: a mild exaggeration of how some students think about writing.
OCA, immobile again
After a brief effort using mobile view with this blog, I’ve switched back to desktop view. I have my reasons.
Drugs, groceries, books
Home of Three Lives & Company.
Illinois-15 in The Washington Post
“Political scientists and analysts said that when state Democrats packed so many conservatives into a single district, they created the environment for [Mary] Miller to win despite holding views that are out of step with most general-election voters in Illinois and even with most GOP House members.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Dashboard setting.”
OCA mobile
Google doesn’t like the absence of mobile view.
Reading in Massachusetts
“Lost in a world of words” is the first in a series of articles about the state of reading instruction in the state of Massachusetts.
“I think he was in the chess club”
Kafka in high school.