Stop / Stop
The difference between the iOS Timer and Alarm screens bugs me.
Orange Crate Art
On January 6
The crisis of American democracy is a crisis of fact.
On January 6
Joe Biden speaks.
On January 6
“Officer Dunn, do you think this danger is still here? Where are we right now, in terms of the threat to democracy, from your view?”
Lighted squares
A 1935 visit to New York lets us see Stefan Zweig as a spectator-tourist, visiting Radio City, the Savoy Ballroom, and “a self-service café” — no doubt the Automat.
“Sepulveda”
Today’s Zippy is all about Los Angeles.
Recognitions
I recognize that bus, which I saw in the Berkshires some years ago. It was surrounded by hippie-esque types and their children. And I recognize this bus too, which I saw a couple of years ago, parked at an orchard in downstate Illinois. They belong to a group now in the news.
Wordle
“Created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner”: The New York Times has the story behind Wordle.
Ten movies, two seasons
Meet John Doe and others.
At breakfast
“It’s like eating Scotch!”
How to improve writing (no. 99)
“In your opinion, are Republican candidates in midterm elections who have received former President Trump’s endorsement more likely or less likely to win their primary races than Republican candidates who did not?”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Kitchen covering.”
New Year’s Eve 1921
Dry sleuths in the road houses.
Last call
A 2022 calendar in Gill Sans, three months per page, a free PDF.
A fish-dish fish dish
Maine Sardines Deluxe, in color.
Critter
Beaver? Walrus? I’m not sure. But when I picked up this sweet potato last night, I knew it was also something — or somene — else.
Sardine art
Behold: images from a facsimile edition of Glynn Boyd-Harte’s Les Sardines à l’huille, described by the publisher as “one of the outstanding auto-lithographed books of the 20th century.”
Recently updated
Words of the year, now with one from The Economist.
How to improve writing (no. 98)
“Hypothetically speaking, would you be in support of or not in support of an exception to the Senate’s filibuster rule with regard to legislation involving voting rights?”
The best book of the past 125 years
Yeah, right.
Gorgias in our time
“The orator need have no knowledge of the truth about things; it is enough for him to have discovered a knack of persuading the ignorant that he seems to know more than the experts.”
Graphs!
Steven Pinker needs to understand that no one lives life in the aggregate.
NPR, sheesh
“Commiserate” for “commensurate.”
Word of the day: tragus
Why is this body part likened to a goat?
Well, or not
A Balzac character writes about life as a mother.
Pronouncing omicron again
Improving a sentence from The New Yorker.
“Book-wrapt”
In its real-estate section, The New York Times hypes the idea of being “book-wrapt” in your “bookroom.”
The Watts Towers at 100
The Los Angeles Times reviews their history.
Noir filter
When I browsed the phone’s filters to turn the picture black and white, I found that the filter I wanted is called Noir. But I think it could just as plausibly be called Horror.
Zippy’s thesaurus
In today’s Zippy, a prehistoric thesaurus.