A Blackwing sighting
From Death in Small Doses (dir. Joseph M. Newman, 1957).
Orange Crate Art
Studs Terkel and DFW
Terkel’s observations about the waitress in Five East Pieces remind me of David Foster Wallace’s imagining of the life of a shopper waiting on line in a supermarket.
Bust = flood?
Mary Miller being dumb.
Twelve movies
Five Easy Pieces and others.
Safari bookmark folders and subfolders
How to get a subfolder out of a folder.
Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market
The Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market (WIndsor 8-8788) was one of seven New York City markets built in the interest of sanitation, removing pushcarts from the streets and placing them indoors, with the benefits of air conditioning, screening, and hot and cold running water. With dim memories and several photographs.
Spoilers vs. foreshadowing
In Nancy.
Joyeux anniversaire, M. Proust
“Serious conversation is intended for people who have no intellectual life.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘When You Rise, We Shine’ sloganeer.”
Kenward Elmslie (1929–2022)
“Routine Disruption,” a poem.
Yoink
Yoink is a nifty utility ($8.99) for macOS and iOS. It simplifies dragging and dropping files — not a complicated task, but a tedious one, as anyone who has tried to navigate from folder to folder to subfolder can probably attest.
Mystery actors
Apparently a difficult mystery to solve.
“All them terrible movies”
“Elvis, how come you ended up in all them terrible movies?”
“Mike, hi!”
“Mike, hi! I’ve only ever seen you in black and white!”
A letter to our representative
“It seems to us that your willingness to protect life begins and ends in the uterus.”
Fishy weather
Popular Mechanics reports that in San Francisco it’s raining anchovies.
“ITHACANS VOW PEN IS CHAMP”
From the “Aeolus” episode of Ulysses.
Lendy’s in “th’ 1960s”
Zippy is time-traveling to a fast-food joint in Roanoke.
“Your hat is a little crushed”
From the “Hades” episode of Ulysses.
Darren Bailey posted to Facebook
And he said, among other things, “Let’s move on.”
Mary Miller has tweeted
Hours after the massacre in Highland Park, she tweets about monuments and statues and liberty and history. WTF, Mary?
Highland Park
“This scene has repeated itself over and over again because of the unfettered access to weapons of war,” said Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from suburban Chicago.
Artle
Wordle for art.
On the Fourth
“You see, here in America it is not a question of whether we tolerate minorites. America is minorities.”
“Where’s the ‘T’?”
The dad joke in today’s Dustin is a worthy one.
Tommy Morgan (1932–2022)
Chances are if you hear a harmonica on a pop recording made within the last fifty or so years, you’re hearing Tommy Morgan.
Ramona, memories, oranges
Here’s some orange crate art from JSTOR. With “Ramona Memories,” from the San Fernando Heights Lemon Association.
Kubrick Self Service Stores
The Internets will now have one result for “kubrick self service stores.”
Dustin desserts
Hayden: “I have to write a paper about the use of idioms.” Ed: “Oh, that’ll be a piece of cake.”
Barf
This fawning, gushing New York Times article about Solveig Gold, a Princeton alum, and Joshua Katz, her Princeton professor-now-husband, makes me come close to wanting to cancel my subscription.