My blog turns sixteen years old today. Surly teen, or studious young adult? Both? You decide.
Happy birthday, Orange Crate Art.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Happy birthday, Orange Crate Art
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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.”
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
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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
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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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
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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
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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
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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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
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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
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- Meta, they wrote
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- “Just one rock”
- Revelations
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- Hi and Lois watch
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- “Up in smoke”
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- “None of this surprises me”
- Domestic comedy
- Whither the rumpus room?
- Misheard
- Dental jazz in translation
- Stalling vs. declining to act
- Dental jazz
- $50, yes
- “All hotels”
- NYC in color (1937)
- “Nov shmoz ka pop?” redux
- The Mailman
- The fix we’re in
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)
- Love thy neighbor?
- A pocket notebook sighting
- “Made to Be Broken”
- Stanley Crouch (1945–2020)
- Today’s pollen and mold
- Fliqlo
- How to improve writing (no. 88)
- “Herd mentality”
- A Scientific American endorsement
- End the Poll Tax
- “What’s the Post Office Good For?”
- Happy birthday, Orange Crate Art
- Idiot, traveler, chicken
- Anne Fadiman on singular they
- Virginia Tufte (1918–2020)
- Your Postal Service
- Shut up and carry on
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- An EXchange name sighting hearing
- Briefcase madeleine
- Another time and place
- Up the road a ways
- “What?”
- “What’s he doing?!”
- Human?
- In Indiana
- “The scale of betrayal”
- #TrumpKnew
- A reminder
- An essay topic
- Zweig’s world
- Images in the new Blogger
- Biddle = Weegee
- Twelve movies
- 23C and 23D
- Free Jazz Against Paludan
- Nancy old and new
- Labor Day
- An M-W Word of the Day: heyday
- “Suckers”
- Today’s Saturday Stumper
- Beware of user error
- “Losers,” “suckers,” and Trump*
- Christopher Fame
- Goodbye, legacy Blogger interface?
- A “publicity-inflamed dummy”
- Misheard
- Postcards to Voters
- Greek tragedy and Theater of War
- Goodbye to old Nancy
- A letter of appeal
- WCW to a young poet
- “My dear Mr. Cleaver”
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- 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.
Happy birthday... and keep posting!
ReplyDeletePrecocious, erudite, intelligent, conscientious, humorous, empathetic, and more, just like its creator.
ReplyDeleteHappy 16th to you, OCA!
Thanks, Richard and Martha!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Michael. Time to open up the hi-fi and spin those old Chuck Berry 45s.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chris. No high heels for Orange Crate Art though.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday. What crow said. I guess my sincerest flattery is not imitation: It that I have your site bookmarked! On my desktop.
ReplyDeleteAlways thought-provoking, like three rocks by the side of the road.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sean, and thanks, George.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! And thank you for such a great weblog.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gunther. May we all keep writing and photographing. (Especially your great photos.)
ReplyDeleteWhat birthday gift could please this young blog, I wonder...
ReplyDeleteI know! Attention!
Yes, “the rarest and purest form of generosity.” But as a teenager in good standing, Orange Crate Art sometimes just wants to be left alone. :)
ReplyDeleteMore evidence that 16 should be the voting age.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Orange Crate Art. I'm with Sean--The Crow said it very well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stefan. Who’d have though back in 1985 that you and I would be chatting in this medium?
ReplyDeleteDN3, I missed your comment. Orange Crate Art agrees.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!
ReplyDeleteKeep on keepin' on.
Thank you, Jim. Blog we must!
ReplyDeleteI don't see much signs of surliness, so I'm going with Studious Young Adult.
ReplyDeleteSweet Sixteen!
Happy Birthday from Li'l Sister (thirteen next month)!
Thanks, Sis!
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