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Lambini & Sons
Lambini & Sons
As the son of a tile man, I had a clipped-from-the-newspaper copy on my office door for years.
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Lambini & Sons
Roger Angell (1920–2022)
Roger Angell (1920–2022)
One of the regrets of my teaching life is that I never found an occasion for asking students to read Angell’s 2014 essay about old age, “This Old Man.”
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Roger Angell (1920–2022)
Some Miller votes
Some Miller votes
Against money for Ukraine, against money for infant formula, against a bill to prevent price gouging on fuel.
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Some Miller votes
Was it ever thus?
Was it ever thus?
Mother: “Will you please shut off that noise?” Daughter: “Noise? Mother, that’s Bing Crosby.”
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Was it ever thus?
In search of lost LA
In search of lost LA
From Lou Grant: “When did they get rid of the orange groves in the Valley? Whatever happened to the eucalyptus trees along Melrose? Why do I sound like a ninety–year–old man?”
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In search of lost LA
A pencil sculpture
A pencil sculpture
A Minneapolis man is sculpting a giant no. 2 pencil from a dead tree.
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A pencil sculpture
A BFD, I hope
A BFD, I hope
“The move, coming as Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appears to be ramping up the pace of his painstaking investigation into the Capitol riot, is the clearest sign yet of a wide-ranging inquiry at the Justice Department.”
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A BFD, I hope
FSRC: annual report
FSRC: annual report
Our household’s two-person reading club: novels, novellas, short-story collections, graphic novels, non-fiction, a Socratic dialogue, a children’s story, and a poem.
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FSRC: annual report
Streaming screenshots
Streaming screenshots
For Mac: how to get screenshots from streaming movies.
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Streaming screenshots
Buffalo
Buffalo
I can already guess what Tucker Carlson might say about it, if he dares to say anything about it.
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Buffalo
Egghead paperbacks
Egghead paperbacks
In The American Scholar, Mark LaFlaur writes about Jason Epstein and “The Birth of the Egghead Paperback.”
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Egghead paperbacks
224 205
224 205
Jen Psaki held more formal press briefings during her fifteen months as White House press secretary (224) than the defeated former president’s press secretaries held in four years (205).
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224 205
“Indefensible”
“Indefensible”
Samuel Alito’s logic: past discrimination justifies continued discrimination.
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“Indefensible”
“Striking similarities” between commencement speeches
“Striking similarities” between commencement speeches
How likely is it that this commencement speech marks the first time the speechmaker has taken someone else’s words and ideas, made slight alterations, and presented the result as her own work?
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“Striking similarities” between commencement speeches