NBC, sheesh
Price of eggs soar ahead of Easter:” a chyron, as seen on NBC Nightly News tonight.
Orange Crate Art
Automat redux?
The Washington Post wonders if COVID might revive Automat-style dining.
“It will be sunny one day”
From Letters of Note, a letter from Stephen Fry to a stranger.
Outtakes (10)
Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. They sometimes remind me of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).
Outtakes (9)
Inside a store that sells — what? Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Old-timey chair protector.”
How to improve writing (no. 101)
Put things where they belong.
Teaching for free
Prompted by the now-infamous listing for an unpaid teaching position at UCLA, The New York Times looks at the realities of academic labor: “The unspoken secret had been fleetingly exposed: Free labor is a fact of academic life.”
Time for cheese
Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White) speaks: “No one is ever too busy for cheese.”
An Automat documentary
The Automat, a documentary film.
The 1950 census
Daughter Number Three offers ultra-helpful directions for looking up people and places in the 1950 census.
Sweatin’ your nextra to the boo
It sounds to me like “You’re sweatin’ your nextra to the boo.”
Telephone EXchange names
From Slightly Scarlet (dir. Allan Dwan, 1956).
There’s something about Mary
She just voted against a House bill reaffirming support for NATO.
Twelve movies
Tampopo and others.
New not-new DFW
An excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King has been published by McNally Editions as Something To Do with Paying Attention. The excerpt, a section of the novel (§22), is indeed about paying attention, as is The Pale King itself. Someone who’s paying attention might notice that McNally’s new paperback is more expensive than the paperback edition of The Pale King itself.
Mystery actor
Who?
Klarna’s a —
“Now you can pay for all of your joy-sparking moments with Klarna.”
Mystery actor
Who?
Dog and cat trouble
Our dog ran out of the house in the middle of the night. I ran out to find it.
Steve Reich’s Different Trains
In an episode of Song Exploder, Steve Reich talks about the first movement of his 1988 composition Different Trains.
Outtakes (8)
An outtake from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“One playing video games all day.”
A merger in Minneapolis
A wine-whine merger from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Chock full and Jackie Robinson
Chock full o’Nuts is marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball with commemorative cans and a donation from profits to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
Thomas’ dots
I like to read the box at breakfast, or the carton, or the plastic bag. Thus I noticed a typographical oddity on the bag holding a loaf of Thomas’ Cinnamon Swirl Bread.
You and Your Vocabulary
Ted Baxter is increasing his vocabulary.
Heather Cox Richardson’s latest
The March 30 installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American is an especially helpful one, about CBS, Mick Mulvaney, facts, democracy, and authoritarianism.
Miller and Meadowses
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Representative Mary Miller (IL-15) “is benefiting from a $74,054.74 independent expenditure by the Right Women political action committee.” The group’s founder: Debra Meadows. Among its leaders: her husband Mark.
Library of Congress pencil pics
It’s National Pencil Day and that the Library of Congress Instagram account has an appropriate array of photographs.