Telephone EXchange names
From Slightly Scarlet (dir. Allan Dwan, 1956).
Orange Crate Art
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.
The world and the corner
“Good evening. This is Ted Baxter, with news from around the world and around the corner.“ Or would it be better the other way around: “Good evening. This is Ted Baxter, with news from around the corner and around the world.“
Advice about news
Advice in The Washington Post: “How to stay up-to-date on terrible news without burning out.”
Yellow Ticonderogas
Yellow is the color of Mary Richards’s new Mustang.
A question
Where has Merrick Garland gone? Long time passing.
Orange tool art
Kyocera peeler, Harry’s razor.
Our tube
Familiar faces in new (and semi-startling) arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
A working search box
Making a better search box for searching a Blogger blog.
Helvetica for free
Gary Hustwit’s 2007 documentary Helvetica, now fifteen years old, is streaming free through March 30.
Outtakes (7)
Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It may not be all that it’s cracked up to be.”
First word, first syllable
A solemn vow: this will be the only time I use an OCA post to play charades.
Thomas to Meadows
The criminality and craziness in these messages is staggering. I can’t even can’t even.