From the future
Frances Farmer, looking fifty years ahead of her time.
Orange Crate Art
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.
Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions
Having read all of Steven Millhauser’s published fiction, I sometimes torment myself by trying to decide which of his books to recommend as a way into his work, recognizing that to begin with one would be to miss — at least for a time — the delights of all the others. If a reader were to begin reading Millhauser with a book other than Disruptions, his new collection of eighteen stories, here is some of what that reader would miss
More than some rocks
Sluggo and many rocks.
“Hi, Papa”
I’m seen as a grandfather type.
Monkey jungle
The students were unanimous: they called it a jungle gym. I had always known it as the monkey bars.
Mystery actor
Yes, she’s holding a paintbrush, but she’s no artist.
“And again meanings interlock”
From Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies.
Mary Miller and the four seasons
“The farmers in my district recognize climate change as summer, winter, spring, and fall.” She doesn’t acknowledge the reality of climate change.
Wishbone ?
Variety reported in 2020 that a Wishbone movie was in development. And in 2023 IMDb has it still in development.
Karikó and Weissman
Nobel Prize winners.
“Leaning. a little to the left”
“St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Puzzle pieces.”
Thirty-nine
An anniversary.