Phil’s Stationery
I was surprised and delighted to see Phil’s Stationery make a brief appearance in “How to Track Your Package,” the final episode of How To with John Wilson.
Orange Crate Art
TCRWP LC? LLC!
Lucy Calkins doubles down.
Linus’s whom
Linus corrects Sally.
Nancy Labor Day
Olivia Jaimes continues the Ernie Bushmiller practice of taking holidays off, sort of.
Labor Day
A Jack Delano photograph.
Recently updated
Much more about Joseph Magnasco’s family history.
The scene of the crimes
A Gowanus restaurant, scene of a robbery and a gangland slaying.
Messrs. Zip
Zippy and Mr. Zip.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Send cloudward.”
“HOIT”
Nancy and the er/oi swap.
A pocket notebook sighting
From Mr. Klein.
Twelve movies
Eva and others.
Sad songs
“Sad songs, that was life”: Rita Forrester, granddaughter of A.P. and Sara Carter of the Carter Family.
The Daily Tar Heel front page
Words from texts.
Goodbye, Fine Arts elevators
Sad news: so-called modern elevators will soon replace the manually operated elevators in Chicago’s Fine Arts Building.
The Times like
“Like” or “such as”?
“Slang Stew”
“I'll have bossy in a bowl, flop two, & extra sea dust! Also, a side of bullets, and drag one through Georgia!”
A January day
From Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children.
A Very British Cult
“The sinister life coaching company that takes over your life.” From BBC Sounds, it’s A Very British Cult, an eight-episode podcast by Catrin Nye.
Plenty of nothing
Champaign-Urbana’s News-Gazette reports that millions in federal money are going to projects in downstate Illinois. But nothing for Mary Miller’s congressional district.
“Not the odds, but the stakes”
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen: “‘Not the odds, but the stakes.’ “That’s my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need from journalists covering the 2024 election. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.”
Turgenev understood the flow state
Compare Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Goodbye, (dumb) TV
Thank you for your service. Stay away from landfills.
Transit Diner (?)
A Gowanus corner.
Recently updated
Trump’s glare and the Kubrick stare.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It’s home on the range.”
Zippy draws Nancy
Not bad.
Groats, grits, grout, Grote
Words and where they come from.
Why are pencils so popular?
MarketWatch says because of kids.
“Sure, Jan”
Mary Trump says “Sure, Jan.”