[Life, May 20, 1940. Click for a larger view and the details of that recipe.]
The key word, here as elsewhere, is fun:
Kids love and need this healthful treat;And: “It’s all food, and a smile wide.”
Kids should have lots of it to eat.
Serve Liver Sausage to each one
For health, for strength — for eating fun.
From a 1934 letter to Egbert Samuel Oliver, the twenty-ninth professor who wrote to Willa Cather on the subject of teaching creative writing in college. Cather referred to it as “‘Creative Writing,’” and she called the attempt to teach it “sheer nonsense”:
I do wish that colleges taught people to write passably clear and correct English, however. More than half of the twenty-eight professors who have written to me within the last few months were quite unable to use “which” and “that” and “would” and “should” correctly — at least, they did not honor me by using them correctly in their letters of request. They made many other errors of the same sort, which a well-trained high school student avoids.I wonder if Cather kept a copy of Fowler’s Modern English Usage on her desk. That and which: sounds like a Fowlerite to me.
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, ed. Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (New York: Knopf, 2013).
Liverwurst is no longer available from our friendly neighborhood multinational retailer. It disappeared from the deli a long time ago. And now it has disappeared from the meat aisle. I buy the stuff only two or three times a year, so I have no right to complain. But I can lament.
Liverwurst is a vanishing foodstuff. Yet once upon a time, it was the very definition of fun. “Once I lived the life of a millionaire,” &c.
Liverwurst (prepackaged) is still available from the local supermarket, for now.
[The quoted words? Listen.]
Stanley Neufeld worked as an assistant director or second-unit director for 113 of the 138 episodes of Naked City. He also worked on several Oscar-winning films. The Hollywood Reporter has an obituary. The Directors Guild of America has an interview.
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From The Andy Griffith Show episode “The Wedding,” March 4, 1968. Howard Sprague speaking:
“You see, Goober, abstract paintings are not representational.”Yes, it’s the episode in which Howard creates a swinging bachelor pad. You can watch here. Joseph Bonaduce, the episode’s writer, deserves great credit for this bit of weirdness.
From The Andy Griffith Show episode “A Date for Gomer,” November 25, 1963. Opie asks a question:
“Is this the first time you’ve been out with a girl, Gomer?“You can watch here. Everett Greenbaum and James Fritzell wrote this episode. The censors must have been asleep at the blue pencil.
“Do cousins count?”
Mongol 2 3/8 Sean at Contrapuntalism tracks down the origin of Eberhard Faber’s Diamond Star emblem.
“Think middle school report” Eyes roll everywhere as heads roll at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thanks, Sara.
Since December 2009 I’ve been making a dowdy-looking calendar for the new year. I’ve made these calendars in what I am guessing must be a primitive way, using tables in the Mac app Pages, three months per page, in licorice (black) and cayenne (dark red). Each year I’ve gotten a bit better at bringing off a glitch-free production.
If you’d like a 2015 calendar for yourself or for a loved one, or even for a random acquaintance, it’s available as a PDF from this link. Paper not included. Staples and punched hole also not included. Supplies may be limited. Order today!
And if anyone would like a Dropbox referral code, here’s mine. More Dropbox for you, more Dropbox for me. Like the calendar — free.
[Nancy, January 1, 1951. Click for a larger view.]
The fence needed mending. Happy New Year from Nancy and Sluggo and me.
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