With apologies to Malvina Reynolds
ittle boxes from the White House, Little boxes gone to Florida.
Orange Crate Art
SCAT happens
This, I suspect, is what happens when someone goes to Wikipedia to create a crossword clue.
Rhythmical snorting
A passage from Tempest-Tost.
Sen-Sen again
Old movie dialogue.
EXchange names on screen
From Kiss of Death (dir. Henry Hathaway, 1947).
Arthur ! Arthur !
From 1A: “‘Believe in yourself’: Remembering 25 years of Arthur.”
Misreading
Every time I cycle through the cable menu, I misread Henry Danger as Henry Darger.
Who owns Henry Darger?
A legal battle between Henry Darger’s landlords and some distant Darger relatives, who never knew him and now claim the rights to his work.
Twelve movies
Nightmare Alley and others.
Hi and Lois watch
Canned spaghetti.
“Selfie Stick”
A cartoon by Mark Stivers.
Outtakes (1)
Kids in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs.
Jason Epstein (1928–2022)
Editor and publisher.`
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Diner descriptor misnomer.”
Separated at birth
Bonita Granville and Cyndi Lauper.
Lunch plans
Lunch in the good ol’ Bronx.
Jeff Zucker’s legacy
Part of the media elite that created the defeated former president. Good riddance.
Domestic comedy
A chore coat for dogs.
Hating on 1-D
We like our water wet, not melty.
“It is snowing”
It is time once again to recall a poem by Pierre Reverdy
“Awful ones for the boys”
A passage from Tempest-Tost.
“By Dillon His Self”
Dillon Helbig, writer and illustrator, placed his work on a shelf in his public library.
Garamond
Does a font make your words look better?
Recently updated
Nick DeMaio and the Eldorado: Now with a c. 1939–1941 photograph.
“Waffles Has a Good Time”
A cat riding a horse.
Schlitzerland
A 1957 serving tray.
“Why Simple Is Smart”
Derek Thompson, who coined the terms “workism,” “hygiene theater,” and “everything shortage,” offers advice for writing nonfiction.
The Times buys Wordle
“The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.” Uh-oh.
Pluto Water and Vitabrush
It so happens that my favorite comic strips sometimes require footnotes.
“Fast to my pocket”
“You sewed my dollar bill fast to my pocket.”