It’s not what you might expect though.
This Google search — write a story problem: 7,241 broken pencil sharpeners — brought a wayfaring stranger to the shores of Orange Crate Art. Her or his wish is my command. Here goes:
There are 7,241 broken pencil sharpeners in the town of Point Pleasant. If the town has 557 repair centers, can they divide the repairs equally? Show your work.
Brooklyn wouldn’t be Brooklyn without Kentile Floors.
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February 24: As Pete Lit points out in a comment, there’s a Kentile sign in Chicago. Who knew? Not me.
Separated at birth? Ted Cruz’s resemblance to Joseph McCarthy deepens. Now with allegations of Communists at Harvard Law School.
[Hi and Lois, February 22, 2013.]
If I were one of those people who think that their radios and televisions are sending them secret messages, I would wonder what’s going on here. But I’m not, and I don’t. Far right, that’s a Led Zeppelin poster, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with Leddy. Still, you gotta wonder.¹
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¹No, you don’t, not really.
[By the way: what is that stuff in the bottom-left corner?]
[Life, April 24, 1950.]
I’d like to know something about the hand that made this lovely piece of commercial art. It appears under the heading “A Chorus of Praise” in an advertisement for AC Spark Plugs. The tiny lettering in the lower left corner appears to be the artist’s name, Allaway. It took two trips to the library, the second with a loupe, to figure that out. Thanks, library. Thanks, loupe. I’ve been unable though to find out anything about the artist.
How many hat-and-glove pairings in this picture signify specific occupations? I see nine before starting to guess. You?
[Post title inspired by an old song.]
Here’s a law firm that won’t hire anyone, for any position, who doesn’t have a college degree. Even the $10-an-hour courier has a bachelor’s.
Says one of the firm’s employees, a receptionist with $100,000 in student loans, “I will probably never see the end of that bill, but I’m not really thinking about it right now . . . . You know, this is a really great place to work.”
[Hi and Lois, February 21, 2013.]
In the Flagston household, as in Washington, there are Cabinet (or cabinet) changes. But in the Flagston household, they’re all in a day’s work.
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Flagston refrigerator trouble
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[Late 20th century CE.]
This label fragment, bearing my daughter Rachel’s inscription, at long last fell away from the videotape it once identified as KIDSONGS. Now this fragment lives on my desk, a scrap of fambly papyrus.
More early writing
Blue crayon
RACHEL MOMMY DADDY BEN
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself”: Marianne Moore, in a 1961 Paris Review interview.
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