Pocket notebook sighting
From The Fearmakers (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1958).
Orange Crate Art
Twelve movies
Noir in color and others.
Sardine bookmarks
Not actual fish.
Reconditioned Can Co.
A Brooklyn tax photograph.
Rocks and debris
Ernie Bushmiller would know how to tidy up this landscape. Just “some rocks,” please.
Eight to two, four to one
I know precision is necessary. But I’d still be tempted to replace “potential debris impact risk” with “danger.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Electronic stop.”
Another Mary Miller vote
Mary Miller (R, IL-15), who smiles as she poses with veterans, voted against S. 3373, the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, described as “a bill to improve the Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant and the Children of Fallen Heroes Grant.” She was one of eighty-eight House members, all Republicans, who voted against the bill.
“I Like my Sleep!”
Al Smith for Pullman.
“As said before”
From the “Sirens” episode, getting meta.
“It’s for an invalid”
From the “Wandering Rocks” episode. Blazes Boylan is supervising the preparation of a gift basket to be delivered to Molly Bloom, whom he will visit that afternoon.
“Before Air-Conditioning”
Arthur Miller, writing in The New Yorker in 1998 about life in 1927 or ’28.
Tony Dow (1945–2022)
He played Wally Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver.
Ulp
Bryan Garner: “If your work requires writing, then your work is no better than your writing.”
Changes in ASL
From The New York Times: “How Sign Language Evolves As Our World Does.” Begins with the influence of small screens on ASL but moves to matters of culture.
Another Mary Miller vote
One of just twenty “no” votes, all Republican, against H.R. 6552, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022. As is often the case, Miller voted with the worst of the worst: Biggs, Boebert, Brooks, Gaetz (no surprise there), Gosar, Greene, &c.
A joke in the traditional manner
On what would have been my dad’s ninety-fourth birthday, I continue in the traditional manner.
At last
“The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.”
“‘Alternative’ votes”
The scheming in these e-mails is transparently dishonest.
An Automat ad
A ghost ad in the Garment District.
Literature clock
I would like to know if it has 5:15 a.m., but I wouldn’t want to have to get up that early to find out.
Joni Mitchell sings
Links to all the songs from Newport.
Trump edits
The Trump edits to this statement are almost entirely self-explanatory. Almost.
The Van Gelder Studio
It’s coming back.
Self-rule and survival
Timothy Snyder: “A second coup is being planned in America. Like the first one it will fail if it is attempted — but it will fail in a different way, by breaking the country apart. America will not survive without self-rule, and I fear it is unlikely to survive a second attempt to take it away.”
Nightspots
I took a look at 52nd Street and found the Onyx Club and the Famous Door, fabled names in jazz.
Domestic comedy
Shatner front and center.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Redundant reckoning.”
A fix for the check engine light light
Or does everyone already know this trick?
Manufacturing fear
From a 1958 movie: “Millions of people being lied to, taken for suckers. You know, it's a funny thing: they have pure food and drug laws to keep people from buying poison to put in their stomachs. And you're peddling poison to put in their minds.”