A pocket notebook sighting
From Kansas City Confidential: he’s Mr. Big, criminal mastermind, schemer of a surefire thing, and he can use that address book however he wants, see?
Orange Crate Art
"Think good thoughts"
Mutts.
Spinning
From the news: “another head-turning personnel pick.” No. Make that “another head-spinning personnel pick.”
The (Lucy Calkins) empire strikes back
I see so much self-mystification and evasion of fact in Calkins’s response to her fall from favor.
On the 166
I thought this dream was about the passing of time: you can’t go home again, as everything has changed. Elaine thinks I’m already dreaming about deportations.
Domestic comedy
“Matt Gaetz is going to be the attorney general!” Reality trumps satire.
Mystery actor
Looks like Robin Williams. Isn’t.
“Give me the peaceful train”
Dialogue from The Palm Beach Story (1942), written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Old heads
Roy Haynes, Lou Donaldson, Marshall Allen.
Warren and Apple Intelligence
“Write smarter,” sez the ad. But is this revised e-mail an example of smart writing? I don’t think so.
Background Sounds bug zapped?
The release notes for macOS Sequoia 15.1 make no mention of it, but according to a Reddit user, the update fixes the Background Sounds bug. It sure sounds like it.
Hi and Lois watch
Hi says “Ug.”
Tips for reading The Power Broker
Five suggestions.
Veterans Day
On the radio, 1924.
Chamois chop suey
It’s like something from the world of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Shoe that sounds like an apartment number.”
Flip
The pancake cook of Squirrel Forest, amid colored-pencil marks.
A happy warrior in Illinois
“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, and opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people, you come through me.”
Recently updated
I’ve added Adam Kinzinger.
Beautiful afternoon, ugly moment
“Would you leave your pretty granddaughter in a room alone with him?”
Eyes
From Guy de Maupassant’s Alien Hearts.
Other thoughts on the election
From Noah Berlatsky, Mona Charen, Mark Hurst, Bess Kalb, Adam Kinzinger, Robert Reich, Heather Cox Richardson, Margaret Sullivan.
A message
I was in a committee meeting with co-workers, all of us sitting at a conference table in a large otherwise vacant room. The subject under discussion was a letter from the FCC about the aroma of our new movie, which had been deemed unsatisfactory. We were looking at clips from older black-and-white movies to figure out an appropriate aroma.
What now?
American voters have chosen an aspiring autocrat who has promised to weak our alliances, the prosecute his political enemies, to end any effort to reverse climate change, to end of the Affordable Care Act, to end women’s reproductive rights, to hand healthcare policies over to a nutcase, and build concentration camps as the prelude to mass deporations. I could go on. If your only concern is the price of a loaf of bread (on PBS last night, David Brooks helpfully told us that it’s $1.93), you’ll vote for the strongman. The cost of groceries is a legitimate concern. But so is the cost of healthcare. And so is everything else. A vote based on the cost of a loaf of bread might come at a much greater cost.
Who?
Jonathan Capehart on PBS just now: “I’m mystified.” And: “Who are we as a country?”
“Probabilistic Uncertainty”
xkcd.
Final hours
Today would be a good day to read Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
A public service from The Washington Post : “Can I still register to vote?”
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, brat : inspired by Charli XCX and “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”
One swing voter
Fascinating stuff: inside the mind of a swing voter.