“Like Shakespeare’s”
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Orange Crate Art
Grifting
Somehow an e-mail address that I haven’t used in years made its way to the Trump world. So I’ve been getting grifting messages, even during this morning’s January 6 hearing.
“Official”
The Trump-created so-called “Official Election Defense Fund” — which did not in fact exist — channeled donor contributions to the Save America PAC, which in turn channeled funds to a charitable organization run by Mark Meadows, to the company that managed the January 6 rally, and to — wait for it — Trump hotels.
Detachment
William Barr, on what he was thinking during a meeting with his then-employer about alleged election fraud: “He’s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.” And yet he, and all the others, kept quiet when they could have spoken out.
“Apparently” and “definitely”
Liz Cheney: “An apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani.” Jason Miller, Trump campaign senior advisor: “The mayor was definitely intoxicated.”
Ten movies, two seasons
Lou Grant, Billy Wilder, and others.
HB, or no. 2
From Lou Grant. “He was wigged out. He kept threatening me with a pencil.”
Unseemly fortune
“There is a massive opportunity sitting right under your nose.”
Jack White, Beatles savant
“Jack White showcases his hidden talent of being able to recognize any Beatles song instantly.”
Apollo
The Apollo Theater, with the February 23, 1940 bill on the marquee.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It may be underfoot.”
Spelling fail
From Beetle Bailey: “O solo mio.”
Book chain
I like this story from Southampton, England: “Human chain move thousands of books into new October Books store.”
A moral umbrella
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.
A husband
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Draw-your-own
The distillery was offering a draw-your-own-bottle option. You drew a shape and the distillery turned it into a bottle.
Making it plain
Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy”: Representative Bennie Thompson (D, MS-2). “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain”: Representative Liz Cheney (R, WY).
Mystery actor
Who?
Domestic comedy
“He’s too old to buckle or swash.”
Barometers
A sentence from James Joyce’s “Counterparts” begins Charles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend.
Domestic comedy
“Everything Roz Chast says is true!”
Love and grammar
From James Joyce’s “The Boarding House.”
Trump on Trial
From the Brookings Institution, a free PDF: Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality.
How to improve writing (no. 102)
Diminutive but impactful? Nah.
Our tube
Charles Lane, Arthur Space, Whitman Mayo, and Matthew Broderick.
Long Promised Road coming to PBS
Brian Wilson is coming to the PBS series American Masters.
Nancy, tidying
Nancy, Marie Kondo fan?
“Home of Piccalilli”
A Bronx tax photo.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
It sparked, for me, no joy, and I did not finish.
Domestic comedy
We get a lot of mileage out of Dan Duryea in our house.