Steven Greenhouse on the election

Steven Greenhouse, writing in The New York Times about labor unions and the election:

Most labor leaders viewed Mr. Trump far more harshly than his union backers did; they often attacked him as a con artist and a threat to unions and workers. Mrs. Clinton would have prevailed had she adopted a more muscular pro-worker message, union leaders lament, more like Bernie Sanders’s message attacking trade deals and inequality.

There’s something sadly funny about the idea of trying to shape a candidate to resemble another candidate whom you’ve already chosen not to support. I can think of only one candidate who could have persuasively offered a message more like Bernie Sanders’s message: Bernie Sanders.

I remain deeply disappointed that my union, the American Federation of Teachers, endorsed Hillary Clinton without even pretending to go through the motions of weighing candidates’ strengths and weaknesses. Background here.

[Without even pretending to go through the motions? That’s what I mean: without even pretending to pretend.]

New York diners

“Losing New York diner culture would probably be a watershed in the city’s history. How will New Yorkers get along without these antidotes to urban loneliness?” In The New York Times, George Blecher writes about the disappearance of the New York diner.

Elaine and I spent a day in Manhattan last week. No diners, but we did go to a café and a restaurant, both local. I expect that someday we’ll visit and find that every small independent business we like has disappeared from the city.

Thanks, Lu, for pointing me to this story.

Heads up

[As seen in the museum’s lobby. Click for a larger view.]

Above, a display for four exhibitions at the Morgan Library & Museum. Whoever designed the posters and their sequence must have put much thought into — and taken much pleasure from — the work. The sequence honors neither historical chronology nor opening dates, but it’s hardly random. What patterns do you see? (Be sure to click for a larger view.)

Elaine and I found the Morgan a perfect museum experience: three hours of great variety and endless surprises, a day before Thanksgiving. Dig the architecture, the art, the books, the manuscripts.

Comics synchronicity

[Nancy, November 26, 1949.]


[Henry, November 26, 2016. Click either image for a larger view.]

See also Mark Trail and Nancy.

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[I don’t know how old today’s Henry really is, but an April strip seems to date the reruns to the 1960s.]

NPR, sheesh

Heard yesterday, an NPR reporter interviewing a Wal-Mart rep: “Are you guys, like, becoming a bank?”

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Domestic comedy

[Singing, earlier this week.]

“Autumn in New York, why does it seem so expensive?”

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Florence Henderson (1934-2016)

Good night, Mrs. Brady. The New York Times has an obituary.

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Domestic comedy

[On the interstates all day, cops, and more cops.]

“Blue Friday.”

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From an old notebook

“What a pile of dirty dishes!”

Snow White, in the 1937 Disney movie.

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“Do I look different yet?”

Betty Aberlin, as the rollers are removed from her hair in the beauty shop (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood).

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“I hear footprints!”

Rachel, age six.

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Alfalfa, Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, metaphors : Alfred Appel Jr. on twentieth-century art and literature : Balloons, poetry, teachers : Barney : Beauty and the Beast and kid talk : Eleanor Roosevelt : John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch : Plato, Shirley Temple, vulgarity, wisdom, Stan Laurel : Square dancing, poetry, criticism, slang

National Sardines Day

It is not only Thanksgiving: it is National Sardines Day. Go fish!

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