Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Silence, perhaps.”
Orange Crate Art
Sold a Story : responses
Two responses to the podcast Sold a Story : How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong: a letter signed by fifty-eight teachers, writers, and administrators, “A call for rejecting the newest reading wars,” and a reply to that letter signed by more than 650 current and former teachers, “For the students we wish we’d taught better.”
A quiz, revised
A Buzzfeed quiz with a misspelling: Which Head of State Should You Date?
Frenship
The Frenship Independent School District hosted a district-wide spelling bee earlier this year.
Treehouses
Nests in a tree, two years apart.
Domestic comedy
“Michael, we watched Gaslight just a few months ago.”
On Willa Cather’s birthday
Cather comments on an attempted dramatization of A Lost Lady.
Opening night
Neil Diamond sings.
“Their needs,” “your livelihood”
Abdulkader Sinno, professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, wrote a letter to graduate students explaining his decision to resign as his department’s job-placement director.
Dies mirabilis
I hope I have the Latin right.
Fifty blog-description lines
“Pflaaaap!”
Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
I am the happy possessor of the second edition of A Humument. Looking at any page is an inspiration.
Recently updated
The words of the year now include goblin mode.
The infra-red sandwich
A Life ad, 1956.
Recently updated
The New York Times now has an obituary for Bernadette Mayer.
Bob McGrath (1932–2022)
The actor and singer Bob McGrath, the Bob of Sesame Street, has died at the age of ninety.
“Business lunch”
Among today’s selections from The Far Side.
House calls
From The Family Circus: a doctor who makes house calls?
O.K. Knee Pants
A 1926 ad.
“It’s toasted”
O & K Toasted Sandwich Shop, 103 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“With a markup.”
Lear, window treatments, pie
This is the twenty-fifth teaching-related dream I’ve had since retiring in 2015. In all but one, something has goes wrong.
In the Appellation Mountains
Margarine is served for dessert in the Appellation Mountains, a region ravaged by the Cupertino effect. In other regions, the dessert is called meringue.
ooh.directory
A directory of blogs.
Recently updated
Nick Demaio and the Eldorado, now with photographs from a wedding party’s visit to the El D.
WRONG
Wordle answers that are not puns.
Blogger undelete
Good news: Blogger now allows a user to undelete deleted published posts.
Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022)
“Work your ass off to change the language & dont ever get famous.”
“But first”
“But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.” “But first, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic.”
Still life with wife
I woke up first and made a sketch.