Sources of truth
Robert Reich offers sources where one might find some truth.
Orange Crate Art
I just adore a penthouse view
I don’t know what’s up (sorry) with that tree, but it’s been like that for years, though not always with a pen...
Raindrop.io
A Pinboard alternative.
Lead Belly and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”
Song origins.
Pinboard tags again
The behavior of Pinboard tags has puzzled me . I use a Pinboard account to create public tags for Orange Crate Art posts. The tags are suppo...
Towne Branch subdivision
I photographed this tree — I call it the Towne Branch subdivision — in fall 2020 and 2022 and again in fall 2...
Initialism
Robert ? Moses.
Mystery actor
I did not draw the glasses. Leave your guesses in the comments. I’ll drop a hint when I can if one is neede...
Work Scotch
From Detroiters.
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Words of the year Now with brain rot .
New York words
Sliding pond.
MERCURY ALERT
I saw this warning, with a proper diamond orientation, at my post office. Prohibited, yes, with good reason. But I think the messenger god —...
Street arithmetic
Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy is Bushmiller-like today in its transformation of things into other things: a crosswalk into equals signs, a street i...
Scam alert
A fruitful time for scammers, who hope to catch their victims off guard as packages fly or creep through the mails at year’s end.
George’s Diner
Just another diner.
An interview with Wyna Liu
From The Atlantic, an interview with Wyna Liu, editor of the New York Times puzzle Connections “The Most Controversial Game on the Internet.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Stuffed street food.”
Separated at birth
A fiddler in a painting and John Hartford.
A third law
“If there was one law for the poor, who have neither money nor influence, and another law for the rich, who have both, there is still a third law for the public official with real power, who has more of both.”
Talking about contingency
From A Man on the Inside: “Every great thing in your life, when you look back on it, feels like a miracle.”
Thanksgiving 1924
Crossword mania in prison.
A pocket notebook sighting
Rod Steiger with a notebook.
Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914–1916
The humanity on view in the Private Notebooks makes them worth reading, but if you haven’t read Wittgenstein, there are better places to start: The Blue and Brown Books and Philosophical Investigations. I’d liken the Notebooks to a multiple-CD set with a recording session’s every false start, breakdown, and alternate take: for completists only.
Gibson sues
Good news: “Trump Guitars hit with cease and desist from Gibson over use of Les Paul body shape” (Guitar World ).
Rural education shrinking
From The Washington Post, “Rural students’ options shrink as colleges slash majors.”
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Words of the year, now with enshittification.
Recently updated
Words of the year, now with manifest.
In the can
In today’s Beetle Bailey, art imitates life.
Mystery actor
Here’s a hint: look closely at both views.
Twelve movies
Road Diary and others.