Twelve movies
The Glass Key and others.
Orange Crate Art
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Words of the year, now with gaslighting.
Domestic comedy
“Do you think the Pillsbury Doughboy gets all his clothes at Men’s Wearhouse?”
Whence bebop?
Merriam-Webster on the origin of bebop.
Buono’s Groc.
A privilege sign, a Bell Telephone sign, an awning, a horse, an unattended child, neighborhood loafers (blocking the entrance to the upstairs apartments), a bicycle with an old-fashioned kickstand, trolley tracks, cobblestones, tattered movie posters (Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Carmen Miranda starred in the 1941 film That Night in Rio), laundry hanging on a line, and a mysterious figure at a second-story window.
Amazon ads ads ads
“The first page of Amazon results includes an average of about nine sponsored listings — twice as many as Walmart displays, four times as many as Target”: The Washington Post explains why shopping on Amazon has gotten worse.
Charles Schulz centennial
Comic strips have taken notice.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Jack’s beat poet pal.”
Tuck Points
“This week on Tuck Points: well-fitted fitted sheets, the foundation of good sleep.”
Blanket Statements
“After the break, we’ll be talking about plaid. Is it really warmer?”
Thanksgiving 1922
Vaudevillians on Blackwell’s Island.
National Sardine Day
Just in time for Thanksgiving.
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Words of the year, now with “teal.”
Vote for a word of the year
Oxford Languages is asking the public to vote for a word of the year.
The rules
From The Chicago Manual of Style blog Shop Talk, an explanation of when to capitalize an initial ”the.”
Lydia Ricci’s art
“Tiny sculptures made from the scraps of daily existence.”
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Nick DeMaio and the Eldorado, now with an artifact.
A source for Columbo
It’s Porfiry Petrovich, from Crime and Punishment.
A source of swing?
From Science News, a claim about where jazz gets its swing.
“Machinery”
A recent Zippy strip featured a Mrs. Gowanus, which made me think of the Gowanus Canal, and I ended up wandering around the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Thus I found myself at the corner of Van Brunt and Beard Streets.
“Sort of a dull ashtray”
In today’s Zippy, Bill Griffith remembers his wife and fellow artist, Diana Noomin.
Another leak
Did Samuel Alito Think it was neato To spill SCOTUS beans in advance? He’s gotta deny it, And say he kept quiet, But what’s that I smell? Burning pants.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Infomercial order.”
FTX fortunes
Many months ago our favorite restaurant (Thai) began handing out fortune cookies with FTX advertising on one side. I wonder how long it’ll be before these fortunes disappear.
A letter to Dr. Laura Schlessinger
From Letters of Note, a letter from Kent Ashcraft, a musician, with some hilarious questions for Dr. Laura Schlessinger about biblical do s and don’t s.
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Another word of the year: “homer.”
Today’s Zippy ’s yesterday
“How much time do we spend remembering the past?”
Walking blues
At the MIT Press Reader, Telmo Pievani, professor of biology, writes about “Bipedalism and Other Tales of Evolutionary Oddities.”
Thank you
“Do thank-you notes still matter?” The New York Times says “Yes.”
Another Mary Miller vote
She just voted against S. 4524, the Speak Out Act, “a bill to limit the judicial enforceability of predispute nondisclosure and nondisparagement contract clauses relating to disputes involving sexual assault and sexual harassment.”