Sammy Davis Jr. sings the theme from Maude
You’re welcome.
Orange Crate Art
K clef
Corporate sponsorship of a clef.
David and Judith Schubert
A poet’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Home remodeling
I’ve tinkered with the template for Orange Crate Art, widening the main column and the sidebar and embiggening the text.
Morissette, Clarkson, and Webster
Kelly Clarkson bought her first dictionary because of Alanis Morissette.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Nursing degree.”
“Molly, you in danger, girl”
Jonathan Capehart: “There’s a great scene in the movie Ghost where Whoopi Goldberg says to Demi Moore, ‘Molly, you in danger, girl.’ And, you know, if I were to see Doanld Trump, I would say exactly that to him.”
“Not playing, but banging”
Someone is tuning a piano.
At a party
“Oh, thank God! Here comes a Border collie!”
No free will?
Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky says that there’s no such thing as free will. I cannot agree.
“But he never wore a collar”
I can imagine these sentences in one of the early stories of Joyce’s Dubliners. It’s the plainness, and the free indirect discourse.
In the funnies today
Mutts and Nancy.
A mother looks at “balanced literacy”
“RIP Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. You helped turn learning to read into a rich family’s game.”
Carla Bley (1936–2023)
The composer and pianist Carla Bley has died at the age of eighty-seven
Recently updated
An obscure film noir and the opening credits for Mad Men.
Recently updated
Casting doubt on the claims of the baker who revived the Ebinger’s name.
Elysium
My copy of Katherine Mansfield’s Stories (1956) is stamped with the owners’ names and address — three times, like a library book. So I looked up the names
A hair-tidy and pencil rays
One could learn a lot about how to describe from reading Katherine Mansfield.
A noir beginning
Ted “Step” Allison (Tom Conway) staggers away from the camera as the movie begins.
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.