Source?
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”: who said it?
Orange Crate Art
Outtakes (6)
Diners, from NYC tax outtakes.
AFT for Ukraine
To help refugee children.
Block that metaphor
Threading a needle between coattails and wrath.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Purple Crayola color.”
Shining star, or dim bulb?
“She’s one of the shining stars representing Illinois because of her leadership, intelligence and courage”: thus an Illinois congressional candidate touts his endorsement from Mary Miller.
Emilio Delgado (1940–2022)
Better known as “Luis” from Sesame Street.
TPM, sheesh
Talking Points Memo this morning: “sharing sources of what I believe are reliable information.”
Mississippi John Hurt Memorial
The ruins of the Valley Store, County Road 41, Carrollton, Mississippi, are preserved in Google Maps, with a marker for Mississippi John Hurt close by.
“Music as resistance”
Kyiv’s orchestra plays on.
Two presidents
In The New York Times, Mikhail Zygar describes Vladimir Putin’s world. As I read, I kept thinking of another president.
Matthew Snelgrove
From Robertson Davies’s Leaven of Malice.
Charles E. Entenmann (1929–2022)
Cross my heart: I almost typed Entenmann’s when I typed his name.
Cough drops
The store was being sold in three minutes, so I’d have to hurry.
“Qua”
I can’t decide if it’s a joke on Waiting for Godot. It might just be someone being witty about qua.
Mystery actor
Who?
Stricken mountaineers
From Robertson Davies’s Tempest-Tost.
“More clear”
Sometimes I want NPR to be more better.
T.S. Eliot = J.D. Salinger?
A first edition of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and a first edition of The Catcher in the Rye (1951), each selling for $16,250.
The Left Banke’s third album
Recorded in 1978, released as an LP in 1986, now on CD, with bonus tracks worth the price of admission.
Refugees
From the Aeneid.
“Casimir Pulaski Day”
Sufjan Stevens.
Editing in Zits
Say “Thanks, Mom.”
An Auden poem
A timely “interactive” feature from The New York Times : Elisa Gabbert takes the reader through W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts.”
Outtakes (5)
Kid and rhinoceros. Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
I am also fond of the composer
Elaine wrote a piece for viola, “I am also fond of lonely islands,” after reading Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book. And now there’s a recording.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Really smart.”
The keepers
Archibald MacLeish’s “Of the Librarian’s Profession” (1940): When wars are made against the [human] spirit and its works, the keeping of these records is itself a kind of warfare. The keepers, whether they so wish or not, cannot be neutral.
Recently updated
A mystery storefront, now identified.
Nancy and Sluggo and Ted
Ted Baxter, Nancy fan?