“Th’ anti-Ernie!”
Three lumpy rocks.
Orange Crate Art
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An EXchange name sighting
From The Man in the Net.
“Cause I Ain’t Got a Pencil”
Food for thought: Joshua T. Dickerson’s poem “Cause I Ain’t Got a Pencil.”
What is an overt act?
The term overt act makes 126 appearances in the Georgia indictment.
TV in the classroom
“You know how in The Wire, Walter White shaves his head and wears a black hat and calls himself Heisenberg? Wait — was that The Wire, or Breaking Bad ?”
“School Pencils? Pencil Cases?”
A 1953 Woolworth’s ad.
Georgia on our minds
There will be cameras in the courtroom. I hope he’s ready for his close-up.
Overheard
“Go away, coconut pirates!”
Twelve movies
She Said and others.
More Bozzo
Fruits and vegetables and meats on Madison Avenue.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Comic relief?”
THANK YOU
On a walk, a longer walk than usual, we added a turn around a park pavilion, a turn that we’d never taken before. I was listening to This American Life, to a long segment by the writer Sean Cole about his struggle to stop smoking cigarettes. And I started thinking about cigarettes.
Reading and writing in the dark
From E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.
The Republic of Laundry
“I’ve become a model citizen in the Republic of Laundry.”
From Artie to Zippy
“Help! I’m an an advertising mascot trapped inside an artichoke!”
“My little right paw”
From E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.
Ian’s Shoelace Site
Twenty-five ways to tie your shoes, and more than a hundred ways to lace them.
“The stuff that was good”
Shahid Kamal Ahmad, game developer, interviewed on the podcast Mac Power Users: Shahid Kamal Ahmad, game developer: “It’s a short life. We’re not kids anymore. But we forget so much of the good, and it’s just the way we’re primed. Evolution rewards us for remembering that which screwed us up. It does not reward us for remembering the stuff that was good.”
“Scholarly voracity”
From E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.
A Gennett Records documentary
From WTIU, a 2018 documentary, The Music Makers of Gennett Records. Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Uncle Dave Macon, and Charley Patton were among the musicians who recorded for Gennett in Richmond, Indiana.
Two Millhauser reviews
Two reviews of Steven Millhauser’s new book of stories, Disruptions : one not so smart, in The New York Times, and one smart, in The New Yorker.
Eleven movies, one series
It Always Rains on Sunday and others.
A joke in the traditional manner
What do ducks like to eat?
Dad, i.m.
He showed up in a dream in July, a couple of days before what would have been his ninety-fifth birthday.
Dictée writ large
“In France, the time-honored tradition of the dictée — or dictation — is alive and well. Recently, 1,700 desks were set up on the Champs Élysées in Paris for the world’s largest dictée session.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Homeric wise guy.”
Weaving through traffic
“Trump’s campaign team was miffed by a lack of traffic support from local police after he arrived in Washington, forcing the motorcade to weave through rush-hour traffic.”
Nancy synchronicity
Open windows, 1950 and 2023.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Louis Armstrong in a Queens barbershop, 1965.