Spiral-bound notebooks full of lyrics are among the treasures in what The New York Times calls “Bob Dylan’s secret archive.” The Times calls the notebooks “tiny.” If they are 3" × 5", as I think they are (fifteen ruled lines per page), then Bob Dylan has been capable of tinier than tiny handwriting.
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A Kerouac notebook page
[Orange Crate Art is a notebook-friendly zone.]
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Bob Dylan’s spiral-bound notebooks
Robert Walser: the railway (2)
[Robert Walser, “Something About the Railway,” in Berlin Stories , trans. Susan Bernofsky (New York: New York Review Books, 2012).]
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Robert Walser: the railway (1)
[Robert Walser, “Something About the Railway,” in Berlin Stories , trans. Susan Bernofsky (New York: New York Review Books, 2012).]
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
NPR guesstimates
NPR, within the last hour or so:
“Voting took place in around twelve states today . . .”Related reading
“. . . about twelve states . . .”
“. . . in thirteen states . . .”
All OCA NPR posts (Pinboard)
[I count twelve states.]
Another Henry gum machine
[Henry , March 1, 2016.]
This fellow (Henry’s father?) wondered how he’d look with a mustache. Henry used the man’s bowtie and a gum machine to answer the question.
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And more gum machines
Henry : Henry : Henry : Perry Mason : Henry : Henry : Henry : Henry : Henry : Henry
[Now they’ll be off in search of a tie cleaner.]
Tie cleaning in New York
In New York: A Serendipiter’s Journey (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961), Gay Talese describes New York as a city in which “a former adman, Stuart Bart, has made a fortune by cleaning only ties.”
Stuart Bart was the subject of “Expressing the Id,” a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece (April 10, 1954). In 1954, Bart was the vice-president of Stuart Bart Advertising (founded 1939) and the president of Tiecrafters, Inc. (founded 1952). In 1954, Tiecrafters, located on East 57th Street, was cleaning 7500 ties a month, at fifty cents a tie. A 1961 New York Times article reported that the company had five Manhattan locations. Today Tiecrafters is still in business on West 29th Street, cleaning ties and scarves and doing alterations. “Tie slimming” is a real thing, though it sounds like a premise for a Bob and Ray sketch.
The “Talk of the Town” item has some choice observations from Bart. For instance:
“A tie represents not only your personality but your mood. What I call the Visible V — the triangular area between coat lapels — offers a modern businessman his only means of expressing his id sartorially.”And:
“You should place your tie under your collar before getting into your shirt.”So I’ve been going about it all wrong. Not only do I wait to put tie under collar; I don’t even get into my shirts. I put them on.
Also from New York: A Serendipiter’s Journey
Chestnuts, pigeons, statues
“Fo-wer, fi-yiv, sev-ven, ni-yen”
Klenosky!
Leeches, catnip oil, strange potions
Monday, February 29, 2016
Walls
On the news, a Trump surrogate, speaking to a crowd a few minutes ago: “We’re going to build a wall to protect us from everyone who means to do us harm.”
But where do we build a wall to protect us from ourselves?
The Bridge , continued
A highlight of my December stint as a prisoner of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries: The Bridge , or, rather, Karen Kingsbury’s “The Bridge.” At the gooey center of this TV-movie is a cozy, pseudo-magical bookstore/café (that would be The Bridge) whose owners (the old marrieds) are always helping their loyal customers (including the book-hungry students seen below). If Thomas Kinkade had run a bookstore, it would have looked like The Bridge.
As I watched, I wondered: how will they wrap up this story with only fifteen, ten, five minutes to go? They didn’t: the movie ended with the words To Be Continued — in December 2016. My faux outrage was real. Other viewers were genuinely upset. The Hallmark Channel issued an apology. And now comes the announcement that Karen Kingsbury’s “The Bridge Part 2” will air on March 20.
[Bookstore of light. All new!]
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March 1, 2016: “Book-hungry students”? Now I’m not sure. They buy coffee, which they drink while they study, but I’m not sure they ever buy books. They do already own books, which serve as props for studying.
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Hallmark ex machina
I am a prisoner of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries
[Beware any work of the imagination whose title includes the maker’s name. Other bridges: Hart Crane’s and Sonny Rollins’s.]
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