“‘Alternative’ votes”
The scheming in these e-mails is transparently dishonest.
Orange Crate Art
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.”
Mary Miller in The Boston Globe
“So many people in power have been plainly declaring their ugliest beliefs and plans lately that it ironically has become hard to hear them all. But our collective future depends on hearing the signal in all the noise.” An opinion piece begins with House Republican Mary Miller (IL-15), and her infamous “historic victory for white life” gaffe/not-gaffe.
Last words
“Mike Pence let me down”: Donald Trump’s last words before leaving the West Wing circa 6:00 p.m. on January 6, 2021.
What matters
Adam Kinzinger (R, IL-16): “Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters.” Harmonizes nicely with what Representative Adam Schiff (D, CA-28) said in 2020.
Juxtaposition
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) raising a clenched fist for the crowd (not yet mob) at the U.S. Capitol. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) running down a Capitol hallway, then down a flight of stairs, fleeing to safety.
Mystery actor
Who?
The last movie-rental clerk
In The New York Times, a profile of the last movie-rental clerk in New York City. The little theater attached to the rental store reminds me of the Snark Theater in Daniel Pinkwater’s The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (1982).
“Eating plums way up there”
From a wonderful short essay by Fintan O’Toole about reading Ulysses, “The Book That Never Stops Changing.”
Mystery actor
His name was in the credits. But I still didn’t recognize him.
Canned sardines (still, yes, still) having a moment
In The New York Times, a visit to Portugal’s Conservas Pinhais.
Don’t call him MBS
NPR: Please, stop calling Mohammed bin Salman MBS. He is not a brand like BMW or IBM. He is not a hip-hop star like DMC or DMX.
Proust on paper and film
Manuscript conservation and a documentary about a group of Proust readers in Buenos Aires.
Ellington at Uwis
Fifty years ago, July 17–21, 1972, it was Duke Ellington Week at the University of Wisconsin.
Another Miller vote
Mary Miller (R, IL-15) was one of just eighteen members of the House of Representatives (all Republicans) to vote against H.Res. 1130, a resolution expressing support for Finland’s and Sweden’s applications to join NATO.
A new strain
In The New York Times, “How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right.”
“Always meeting ourselves”
From “Scylla and Charybdis.”
Aloe, hallo
Faces everywhere.
Sol. Lou. 25¢ a Lesson
3920 13th Avenue, Boro Park, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.
Thel’s usage
Verb choice in The Family Circus.