Back at it
The strange thing about being back in a concert hall after all this time: it felt, really, as if no time had passed.
Orange Crate Art
Electric Light Tie!
One more item from the Ace-Hy Sign Co.
A belated happy birthday
I realized only this morning that Orange Crate Art turned eighteen last month. Now I understand why OCA has been poring over a sample ballot in advance of November’s elections.
Students petition; deans fire
The New York Times reports on Maitland Jones, a professor of organic chemistry at New York University, who was fired after a quarter of his students signed a petition claiming that the class he taught was too difficult.
Eleven movies, one series
Double Indemnity and others.
Mary Miller, the veteran’s friend
She voted against The Food Security for All Veterans Act.
Changeable Signs
A store for signs had better have a beautiful one.
“5 MIN READ”
For a while I never noticed the new reading-time estimates that accompany Times headlines. Now I can’t help noticing them, and I’m aghast. Seeing an estimate attached to a review of two books about attention and technology makes my ironymeter go haywire.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Take it slow.”
Recently updated
he New York Times now has an obituary for Joe Bussard.
Sue Mingus (1930–2022)
A keeper of a flame.
Of mice and medicine men
Two small ads from Biillboard, 1948.
Nick Cave on the point in life
Nick Cave answers a reader’s question.
“He could not help observing this”
From Anna Karenina. Aleksey Alexandrovich Karnenin is consulting a lawyer. But there’s always time to notice stationery supplies.
HCR’s latest
Reading Heather Cox Richardson is so much better than watching television-news people standing in a hurricane or its aftermath.
Joe Bussard (1936–2022)
Record collector extraordinaire. Dust-to-Digital has an appreciation.
Over and out
Managing things for my mom, I’ve gotten good at ending telephone calls.
Masonic [need + past participle]
“His hair needed cut”: so says a witness in the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Wrathful Wraith” (November 7, 1965).
Shame on you, Maggie Haberman
Never mind democracy: she was saving the story for the book.
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.