EXchange names on the screen
From Old Acquaintance (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1943).
Orange Crate Art
Beard pencils
Who knew?
Good going, Carhartt
I hope that those who are planning to boycott Carhartt because of the company’s stand on vaccination will soon need to boycott all consumer goods.
Twelve movies
Till the End of Time and others.
Laughter
A church that was (and is) gathering in person, with a congregation that laughs at the implication that their pastor contracted COVID-19.
On MLK Day
“I’m Gonna Walk It with You.”
Ebinger’s
A part of Brooklyn reality.
Dogs dig holes
Merriam-Webster calls attention to an odd sign.
Richard Macksey’s library
I recognized the name , but I’d never seen the library: 51,000 books.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Metaphor for holdups.”
Professor gone wild
Inside Higher Ed reports on a seventy-four-year-old history professor’s first-week video for his students. The performance/protest about teaching in a pandemic is at YouTube.
Another letter from an American
I read (I think) a fair amount of news and commentary. But the historian Heather Cox Richardson reads more (and knows more).
A shopping tip
When you check out, keep your cart behind you at the start of the checkout lane and unload your groceries from the front of the cart. Your cart thus keeps the unmasked asshat behind you at a greater distance.
“Grey sky and withered garlands”
The governess might be mad, but she can write well, though she sometimes shares James’s penchant for convoluted syntax.
Ronnie Spector (1943–2022)
Singer, survivor.
NPR interviews a former president
The defeated one just cannot update, as they say, his priors.
Spectacular Vernacular
An excellent podcast.
Wordle clones
Now gone and forgotten.
From The New Yorker
“Kim & Kanye & Pete & Julia” feels like a message of sorts: this is no longer for me, at least not on a subscription basis.
The Left Banke’s final album
Omnivore Records is releasing for the first time on CD The Left Banke’s final album, Strangers on a Train, with additional later tracks.
Recently updated
Words of the year, now with insurrection.
Being avant-garde
“The most avant-garde thing we can be is a human being”: William Parker, composer, bassist, bandleader, who turns seventy today.
Google, ugh
From The Washington Post: “Google is manipulating browser extensions to stifle competitors, DuckDuckGo CEO says.” Of course that can only happen if you’re using Chrome.
David Brooks’s books
Arranged by color.
How to improve sleeping
I was improving a sentence in a dream.
Close the door
Fire safety. “Close the door” is the theme of a famed PSA created by the sound recordist Tony Schwartz.
Yow-Zah’s
A Brooklyn model-airplane shop.
Prune latte
M’m! M’m! Good?
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Accordion cover material.”
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022)
My checklist: No Way Out, Blackboard Jungle, Edge of the City, The Defiant Ones, Paris Blues, Lilies of the Field, A Patch of Blue, To Sir, with Love, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.