Tip-Top Diner
A Bronx diner. “Tip-top” goes back to 1702.
Orange Crate Art
System of laundry
Folding with Lassie, storing with the English Beat.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Global perspective.”
John Alton’s Painting with Light
“In the dark there is mystery.”
One more from John Alton
A page from a telephone directory.
A delirium of shadows
I like delirium as a collective name for film-noir shadows. Here is a small delirium from The Crooked Way (dir. Robert Florey, 1949). The cinematographer is John Alton, a master of film noir.
A letter to Mary Miller
A response to her toxic talk about “the natural family” and “the traditional family, ordained by God.”
“High time” to “help”
From Steven Millhauser’s Portrait of a Romantic.
Mary Miller, going places
“My” representative in Congress, Mary Miller (R, IL-15) — and how I tire of having to type the quotation marks — is headed to Chicago — a city she has often reviled — for a fundraiser. It’s hardly coincidental that she just announced the creation of Congressional Family Caucus.
Expectations
Maya Angelou, interviewed on Desert Island Discs.
Cather cameo
A copy of My Ántonia in Dorothy Malone’s hands.
How to improve writing (no. 108)
As I’ve written in a previous post, “Every time I look at Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo, I end up rewriting one or more sentences.”
All Fall Down notebook
Teenager writes in notebook.
George?
That is George Santos in today’s Zippy, isn’t it?
Recently updated
Some history for the Loring Grill.
“Ignorance pays off”
How can a hate group make money?
Jigsaw cameos
The one unusual thing about Jigsaw (dir. Fletcher Markle, 1949), a story about investigating a hate group, is a parade of cameos by actors with progressive leanings.
Twelve movies
The Illusionist and others.
In search of lost Beau Hunks
I found it in the CD shelves, out of place, to the right, not left, of Beethoven.
Loring Grill
A Fordham Road diner.
“In real time”
An inane phrase.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Extraordinarily bright.”
Mystery actors
From a movie teeming with familiar faces in small roles.
Wayne Shorter (1933-2023)
Five versions of “Footprints.”
Recently updated
Why Edwin Mullhouse’s crush is named Rose Dorn.
Glenmorangie redesign
The change was made last summer, but it showed up at our nearby beverage depot only recently.
A joke in the traditional manner
What do cows like to watch on TV?
The ghost in the machine
I removed the batteries from both remotes. The volume continued to rise and fall.
Another imaginary radio show
Soup’s On: On Soup is all about soup: making it, serving it, eating it, storing leftovers in the fridge or freezer, though there might not be any leftovers considering how great soup is.
Coffee, yay
In The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks writes in praise of coffee.