Shame on you, Maggie Haberman
Never mind democracy: she was saving the story for the book.
Orange Crate Art
Mystery actor
Who is she?
Carrot and stick
That’s What They Say (Michigan Radio) has the idiom covered.
Mingus in Amsterdam
I long had a standard choice for a musical time machine (with a train ticket): 1928 or so, so that I could hear Louis Armstrong in Chicago or Duke Ellington in New York. At some point I added 1964 (with plane fare), to hear the Charles Mingus Sextet somewhere in Europe.
Tolstoy and Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel: “Tolstoy is the king of writing.”
“Wilson, That’s All”
A Times Square billboard.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Throws out a window.”
How to have a root canal
In seventeen steps.
NPR pronunciation
Of Iran.
Roosevelt, Painter, Snyder
Three excerpts from “The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed,” the final episode of The U.S. and the Holocaust, rom Eleanor Roosevelt and the historians Nell Irvin Painter and Timothy Snyder.
Eva and Miriam
It came as a jolt, even if it shouldn’t have, to see our friend Eva Mozes Kor for a split-second in the final episode of Ken Burns’s The U.S. and the Holocaust.
PBS, wut?
Tonight’s PBS NewsHour is a repeat, at least at our PBS station, and it began with QEII’s funeral procession.
Yes!
Go Letitia James!
“Brainless beef!”
From Anna Karenina. Count Aleksey Kirillovich Vronsky is entertaining “a foreign prince.” The count is not having a good time of it.
In the great green room
One of the great moments of grandparenthood (so far): reading Goodnight Moon to a granddaughter who pulled it from the shelf at bedtime and said she didn’t understand it.
A letter to “my” representative
I don’t expect an answer. But I take pleasure in writing to “my” representative. She won’t read it, but someone in her office might. And might then have something to think about.
Sheiks
The music that runs behind the opening credits of A Face in the Crowd (credited to Tom Glazer) is more or less a version of the Mississippi Sheiks’ “Sitting on Top of the World.” An apt choice for the story the movie tells.
Advice from one who’s been
You do not want to get the bivalent COVID booster and this year’s flu vaccine at the same time. You just don’t.
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Jack Delaney’s: Now with a 1960 advertisement and a Tack Room.
Infuriating
Infuriating to find PBS bumping the second episode of The U.S. and the Holocaust for a ninety-minute recap of QEII’s funeral service.
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Jack Delaney’s: Now with a menu.
Anna meta
“She says you’re a real heroine out of a novel.”
The U.S. and the Holocaust
I wonder if anyone ever imagined that this documentary series would begin airing four days after a governor lured refugees onto buses with promises of employment and housing, and one day after a crowd raised their right arms to the defeated former president in an index-finger salute. We dismiss such cruelty and madness at our peril.
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MSNBC royal hierarchy: Guess who’s in London?
Jack Delaney’s
A Greenwich Village restaurant with a horse (not a real one) and cart on the roof.
“Hyphen killer”
Henry Furhmann (1957–2022), the Los Angeles Times editor who pushed to end -American constructions.
“Reverse Freedom Rides”
Did you know about this? “Sixty years before migrants were sent to Martha’s Vineyard, there were the ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’” (NPR).
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Case workers.”
Coffey, comma, ay caramba
Who gives a darn about an Oxford comma, as The New York Times might ask? That would be Thérèse Coffey — Liz Truss ally, head of the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, and punctuation peever. Coffey hates the Oxford comma, is unashamed to say so, and wants it removed from her department’s written communications.
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Man who threatened Merriam-Webster pleads guilty.