Left: Bingham Hall, Yale University, 1928 (Walter B. Chambers, architect)
Right: Sleeping Giant Observation Tower, Hamden, CT, 1935 (Russell T. Barker, architect)
History: Never before has life been this stressful
Also history:
The National Association of Black Bookstores aims to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”
You can hover over the page, or you can enter it.
I don’t second-guess folks who rank “Wild Honey Pie” toward the bottom of the list of Beatles songs. But today I realized that WHP bears a surprising resemblance to the guitar interludes in “Girl.” Can you hear it?
As a fond callback to that classic, it suddenly feels more embraceable.
The soundtrack, yes, and also the eeriness. And I presume you stuck around for the post-credits bit? One of the most astounding parts of the film.
Ahh, I see. Glad you gave it a chance!
Fellow Johnson devotee here - we were *saturated* with Sinners content and applause, all deserved, in first half of last year. Perhaps a regional issue?
Question: I’m refreshing my schoolboy French with Duolingo. When I write a sentence ending with an exclamation point, it shows an error and adds a space before the exclamation point. Yet this doesn’t seem to be true of periods.
What explains this French usage nicety?
Just now I was waiting for my lunch and an unfamiliar song started playing, kind of a whingey song, and I listened because I couldn’t change the channel, and eventually it dawned on me that this song I’d never heard before was “Wonderwall”
Who knew today was gonna be the day
larry david on bkcoffeeshop when
larry david on bkcoffeeshop when
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
I think
the reason I mourn—
unreasonably, I know,
my values are descriptivist—
the erosion of strict meaning
adhering to words like “literally”
is not that I don’t know
when people mean it figuratively.
It’s that
we will no longer have
any word that means,
literally,
literally.
Lighten up!
Did Hitch take a cue from Dodge?
Very fine
unheralded filmmaking
happening in Wales and Cornwall
these days
This is who runs this account
Is my passion perfect?
No, do it once again
I was handsome, I was strong
I knew the words of every song
Did my singing please you?
No, the words you sang were wrong
A 30-pt swing in South Carolina in November makes me a Senator and retires Lindsey Graham. 🇺🇸
It’s a later 19th C edition - I found it online - but quite lovely.
Is that an e-reader? Dying to know what edition that is - cover is stunning
Sounds just like living in NYC!
The winter of your Paul content
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
Thought for the day: " . . . this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short of itself and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never."
-- OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.
On a related note, if anyone in midcentury Hollywood ever needed a Cary Grant impersonator who was also a Rock Hudson impersonator, they could have hired (this photo of) Ray Anthony
Reading this,
I thought, Well, sheesh!
They could have had a time
With well-known Archies
Leach and MacLeish.
(This last line’s for the rhyme.)
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
Americans who’ve started to use phrases like “to be sat” instead of “to be seated” or “to be sitting” (which would be considered standard usage): did this change come naturally to you? Do you consider it a language trend you’ve adopted, or a correct form you hadn’t known before?
