“The witty outsider”?
On the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks just characterized Donald Trump in 2016 as “sort of the witty outsider.” Wut?
Orange Crate Art
From Cartoons
Jeffrey Cartwright will go on to provide an extended summary of Cartoons.
Another ChatGPT fail
What ChatGPT doesn’t understand is that Lillian Mountweazel was not a real person.
“THAT AIN’T HAY”
Edwin Mullhouse courts the mysterious and sometimes terrifying Rose Dorn.
“Raucous go-go”
You know what Robert Caro says: Turn every page. Thus I found myself looking at a David Brooks profile of Bono in the December Atlantic, “The Too-Muchness of Bono.”
Beauty , defined, undefined
There’s something risible about the head of a cosmetics conglomerate pushing for a redefinition — or undefinition — of beauty.
Music history, rhyming?
In the PBS series Fight the Power, Leddy Cool J’s account of Count Basie taking a back seat to singers singing bebop riffs has no basis in history.
“We clearly f-ed this one up”
Spelling O’Keeffe with one “f.”
From an interview with Bryan Garner
How did a teenager fall in love with books about English usage?
Crafted, baked
I noticed this morning: Pepperidge Farm now packages its bread as “Crafted Baked Goods.”
“Most valuble”
I don’t follow sports, but I do follow misspelling.
Screenshots from streaming services
Two Chrome extensions that work.
Get back Blogger Quick Edit
If you use Blogger and miss the pencil icon that once let you edit posts on the fly, here’s a simple way to get it back.
Use by
Useful stuff from The New York Times: “The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow.”
Sauce from a jar?
The Washington Post tests twelve marinara sauces. But you can make your own. With recipes.
RAG
In today’s Los Angeles Times crossword, by Brian Thomas and Brooke Husic, the clue for 34-A, “Ellington composition,” is wildly off. The answer: RAG. No, just no.
Today’s Nancy
Olivia Jaimes continues to reinvent the Sunday strip.
Bronx games
Shuffleboard and horseshoes.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Brooklyn, briefly.”
“No mother”
“No mother, no mother — no mother — should go through what I’m going through right now”: RowVaughn Wells.
Rapolski’s
A candy store.
Domestic comedy
“No, chasm rice.”
“Fascinating implements”
Visiting the seven-year-old artist Edward Penn, who lives in a room in the heated basement of his parents’ house and doesn’t go to school.
Forty years
“The only reality is twenty years of Clifford Groves as a husband and as a father, twenty years of my being a career woman with an eye to design and merchandising.”
Footnoting Zippy
There are many big coffee pots. The one in today’s Zippy looks like the one in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Mystery actor
Easy? Not easy? I’m not sure.
“My Bathroom”
An ode to solitude: Sid Siegel’s “My Bathroom,” from the industrial musical The Bathrooms are Coming! (1969), sung by Patt Stanton Gjonola
Martins and Child
Seeing as our household has had Julia Child on the brain, I reread a piece of fan-fiction I wrote a few years ago: “Bon Appétit!” It’s about Julia Child visiting the Martins — as in Paul, Ruth, Timmy, and Lassie. Oh, and Uncle Petrie.
Vegan options
“Julian, you need to add some vegan options to your business plan.”
Twelve movies
Daisies and others.