Peg and Pinkie (and Floyd)
Peg Leg Sam and Pink Anderson, in an old issue of Billboard.
Orange Crate Art
In search of lost commercials
Did you know that “so many of the melodies of well-known popular songs were actually written by the great masters”? I did, but I had no idea who was speaking those words.
One big revelation
The dfp is having a very bad day.
“What they had no conception of”
From Anna Karenina.
Borometer
Elaine thought it up, but she left it for me to do the work of defining.
Gabbard, Palin, Hitchens
Tulsi Gabbard is the Sarah Palin of Christopher Hitchenses. Or: Tulsi Gabbard is the Christopher Hitchens of Sarah Palins. I can see it both ways.
Recently updated
“As good of a” — someone fixed it.
A critical reader
I’m a member of the panel of critical readers for the forthcoming fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage.
As [+ adj.] a [+ n.] as
A New York Times headline, and a passage from Garner’s Modern English Usage.
Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
Nancy. Edwina Brown. Sybil Vane. Mabel Sabre. Doris Hillman. Myra Leeds. Eleanor Shaw Iselin. Isabel Boyd. Nellie Lovett. Jessica Fletcher. Mrs. Potts. Balloon Lady.
Coronation with Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin playing in the dentist’s office as my tooth gets a crown.
“All of this together”
From Anna Karenina.
Fritzi at 100
From The Daily Cartoonist : “A Century of Fritzi Ritz.”
SCOOP: Musk’s next move
Smart Brevity is neither smart nor brief.
Joe Bussard, streaming
Ninety episodes of Joe Bussard’s radio show/podcast, Country Classics. All 78s: country, blues, jazz, gospel.
Frasier reboot
I fear that nothing good can come of this. But I’d be happy to be wrong.
Little rituals
In New York Times, readers share rituals that keep them going.
Autumn in Mutts
Earl loves autumn.
Two or more grocery stores
One unknown, one a Roulston’s, side by siide in Brooklyn, c. 1939–1940.
MSNBC, sheesh
A reporter, on the ground (as they say) in Wisconsin: “Her and her husband voted for,” &c.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Casablanca bilateral lyrical equivalence.”
Feed changing
I’m switching from FeedBurner to the standard Blogger feed. (Too many lags.)
Pocket notebook sightings
From Lost Horizon.
The price of fish
From Roses Are Red (dir. James Tinling, 1947), a line worthy of a villain — say, perhaps, John Candy in an SCTV parody.
Feed, me
FeedBurner is messed up.
Bebop
A tasting menu.
Winter ahead
From The Atlantic: “If we treat this winter as normal, it will be anything but.”
“Official activity”
Ahh, commiittee work. From Anna Karenina.
Prisoners of Google
From the “Online Shopping” episode of the podcast You’re Wrong About, an exchange between Amanda Mull and host Sarah Marshall: AM: Google is at this point like basically a utility. SM: I don’t know how you could live without it, honestly. Oh gosh. You could use DuckDuckGo
Coffee vs. tea
From The Washington Post. Which beverage will claim the world title for healthiest drink?