[Cartoon of the Day, by Mort Gerberg. The New Yorker, January 16, 2020.]
I know this feeling. The problem: there isn’t a safe word.
Friday, January 17, 2020
“Good evening, news masochists”
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Michael Leddy“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
Don’t look for premiums or
coupons, as the cost of
the thoughts blended in
ORANGE CRATE ART pro-
hibits the use of them.
Comments are welcome, appended to posts or by e-mail. I moderate comments to keep out spam, so please be patient.
View Profile
Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
Don’t look for premiums or
coupons, as the cost of
the thoughts blended in
ORANGE CRATE ART pro-
hibits the use of them.
Comments are welcome, appended to posts or by e-mail. I moderate comments to keep out spam, so please be patient.
Search this blog
Creative Commons
StatCounter
Subscribe
Click to subscribe in a reader.
Words to live by
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
*
Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
*
Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
#1 hit
In memory of
Blog Archive
-
▼
2020
(1082)
-
▼
January
(85)
- “Books saved my life”
- “Just words”
- “Don’t be surprised, be angry”
- Autocratic solipsism
- A Ravel Kaddish, arr. Fine
- Distance learning
- Small pleasures
- Word of the day: gormless
- Prefix workout
- Thug life
- Pete Buttigieg and Seneca
- “Peace, prosperity[,] and”
- Separated at birth
- Sluggo’s noes
- “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
- Jaimes and Nancy FTW
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- EXchange name sighting
- Overheard
- The House Managers
- Jim Lehrer (1934–2020)
- A Mongol sighting
- Subtitle, about language
- Steve Martin Caro (1948–2020)
- Not milkness but phoneless
- Being 97
- Vocative comma, no comma
- Biggie Smalls and Hamilton
- Rostrum
- Twelve movies
- Unanswered questions
- 16,241
- MLK
- Word of the day: tranche
- “Sully” Sullenberger on stuttering
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- Stan Carey on the vocative comma
- “Good evening, news masochists”
- “Some friends”
- Recently updated
- “Days”
- Free Mac apps
- Low Power Mode
- Criminals
- “Us”
- “Clock watchers”
- Various Sardines
- Donkey Hodie rides again
- Rails to Sales
- Keyboard Cleaner
- NYPL top ten
- Ko-Rec-Type, Part No. 3
- TV academics
- Strapped for time
- Petrie opines
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- A name from Nancy
- “The irony is almost too obvious”
- $200,000
- “Irish Haiku”
- Hop, skip, jump
- TUMS
- In the Dark Ages
- A Post-it dad joke
- Phallocentrism and sniffs
- Seashore keeps improving
- ICYMI
- No words
- Becoming a better learner
- A catalog saved
- Mystery actor
- Some madeleines
- Another circuit
- How to improve writing (no. 86)
- Now would have been the time
- Twitter Terms of Service
- The Archive of Contemporary Music
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- Trump* and lies
- Close enough for tarantellas
- State employees
- A school of somes
- Don Larsen (1929–2020)
- Holiday wars
- The days of my PDF
-
▼
January
(85)
favorite posts
- Against “deep reading”
- Alkalize with Alka-Seltzer
- At the World Trade Center and St. Paul’s Chapel
- Being wrong about beauty
- Bobbing for apples
- “Bon Appétit!”
- “The Case of the Purloined Prairie”
- ChatGPT’s twenty-line poems
- “The ’Clipse”
- Couric and Palin and Orwell
- Digital naïfs
- Donald Trump’s spelling
- Ebinger’s
- Ellington for beginners
- “Extra credit?”
- Five desks
- Five pens
- Fluke life
- The gold standard, haircuts, and everyone else
- Happy birthday, Mr. Piletti
- Hoagies, pizza, and English studies
- Homeric blindness in “colledge”
- How to Write a Sentence
- Imaginary liner notes
- Invisible man: Louis Armstrong and the New York Times
- Invitation to a dance
- Is there a pencil in The House?
- John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat
- A Kerouac notebook page
- The kitchen shink [sic]
- Klenosky!
- “Make My Jotter Quit!”
- Lady Elaine’s can
- Mysteries of the tollbooth
- National’s et cetera
- Nick DeMaio and the Eldorado
- Obama revisions
- Obama thoughts
- On “On the New Literacy”
- On “Politics and the English Language”
- “On the Road”
- The Oteris and Marty
- The other little book
- Out of the past
- Peppa Pig and the Brontës
- Phones Are For People
- Politics and theory
- “The Poet”
- Proust: involuntary memory, foolish things
- P.S. 131
- Pullum on Strunk and White
- Re: the Beloit Mindset List
- Some have gone and some remain
- “The Spokesmen”
- Sports Illustrated and Proust
- The Springfield Daily Gazette
- That (in)famous line
- Things I learned on my summer vacation
- Van Dyke Parks in Chicago
- W(h)ither grammar
- What I hear in “Walk Away Renee”
Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 0
Post a Comment