Jambalaya
Making it at home.
Orange Crate Art
Call for bad handwriting
The New York Times wants to see your bad handwriting, for possible use in an article about grown-ups whose handwriting has gone awry.
Eyes
From Anna Karenina.
Two visions
From the latest installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.
C-Man Mongol
Yep, it’s a Mongol.
“Close the case”
From The Drive by Night (dir. Raoul Walsh, 1940). Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino) walks out of the DA's office and toward the camera, sure that she’s off the hook.
Twelve movies
The Long Day Closes and others.
“The back of your head neck”
From Anna Karenina.
What’d I do, NYT?
I am disappointed to see that a comment I left this morning on the New York Times article about dfp-supporting politicians and "devil terms" has still not made it online. Humph.
Fat-checking
Sheesh.
Mary Miller in The New York Times
Ms. Miller’s inflammatory words underscore the extent to which polarizing rhetoric is now entrenched among Republicans in the House of Representatives, especially among those like Ms. Miller who voted against certifying the Biden victory, according to an examination by The New York Times of partisan language over the past 10 years.
Bocce
Under the El tracks in Brooklyn.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Penguin ritual.”
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta
“With built-in protections that make the Internet less creepy and less cluttered”: the DuckDuckGo browser for Mac is now available to all. First impression: slow. But it’s still in beta.
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
From The Washington Post: “Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter.”
A Pete Seeger stamp
A good way to think about Pete Seeger’s appearance on a stamp: a man once viewed as “un-American” was of course a true American all along.
Sold a Story again
Only last night did it occur to me to wonder: when college instructors outline the textbook in class and give out “study sheets” (i.e., questions and answers) for exams, are they merely slacking off, or are they compensating, consciously or not, for their students’ reading deficiencies?
Mystery actor
Hint: She was good company, and her favorite meal was “lunch.”
Separated at birth
Aaron-Taylor-Johnson and Gene Wilder.
Newsstands
From Trevor Traynor: Newstands, 100 photographs.
Sardine dreams
In The Harvard Crimson, Una R. Roven, college student, writes about sardines.
Sold a Story
Coming tomorrow, from American Public Media, a podcast series by Emily Hanford: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.
Cheesy vignette
Shrinkflation.
Stemside
“Coming up on Stemside: tomato sandwiches. Are they really as good as people say?”
La Fabrique de l’oeuvre
A French National Library exhibition devoted to the evolution of À la recherche du temps perdu .
The reason is not because
If “the reason is because” is far less common in writing, if it’s likely to stand out to many a reader as a known redundancy, it’s in a writer’s interest to change because to that. It doesn’t matter what Robert Frost did. Or Jane Austen.
NetNewsWire
It’s fast, easy to figure out, and free. It has a long history, with a developer, Brent Simmons, who has a sense of cultural purpose and doesn’t even invite donations. Here is the app’s website.
“The old Internet”
Marie LeConte misses “the old Internet.”
Why a duck?
A house, a candy store, a duck selling gasoline.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Sempiternal.”