Patience and Fortitude are back. And the happy foot/sad foot sign has a home.
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Foot Clinic sign
Friday, November 1, 2019
Patience, Fortitude, and feet
The Art Theater
The Art Theater (“Art-house cinema in central IL”) has closed for keeps. I wrote this short description in a 2012 post:
The Art offers intelligent programming, atypical and well-priced snacks and drinks, appropriate pre-movie music, minimal advertising, and a terrific sound system. There’s one screen, and the audience comes to pay attention: what a difference that makes.That description held to the end. The clearest sign of difficulty: movies often became available on DVD from Netflix just a few weeks after the Art had them. In other words, the theater was getting movies at the very end of their run.
My most vivid memories of the Art Theater: Moonlight, RBG, Coffee and Cigarettes, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (tears and sniffles everywhere), Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe, and Fahrenheit 9/11, the only movie I’ve ever seen in a sold-out theater.
Goodbye, Art Theater. Thanks for the movies.
“Somewhere in time”
With Fonny in prison, Tish says that the word time “tolled like the bells of a church.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk (1974).
Also from James Baldwin
“The burden is reality” : “Life is tragic” : “She was Sanctified holy”
“Pick a season”
At Oscar’s Portrait, George Bodmer has the perfect cartoon for our midwestern weather.
[Yesterday in downstate Illinois: snow. And this morning: 27 °F. It got winter.]
Fountain Pen Day
As I learned only last night, today is Fountain Pen Day, “a time to embrace, promote, and share the use of fountain pens.” They forgot sell. Oh well.
My regular writer, since l998, is a green-striped Pelikan, the best pen I’ve ever used. My recommendation for anyone who’d like to try a fountain pen: the Kaweco Classic Sport. It’s inexpensive enough to count as an experiment, reliable enough to use as a daily pen. Add a clip and converter and you’re set.
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Five pens
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “Edward Gorey’s Mysterious Animations,” hosted by our son Ben. You can find all episodes of The Rewind at YouTube.
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
From WNYC: Impeachment: A Daily Podcast, with Brian Lehrer. I started listening yesterday. It’s excellent.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
“Pencils these days”
“Pencils these days, not worth the paper they write on”: Dr. John H. Watson (Nigel Bruce) in The Spider Woman (dir. Roy William Neill). His point broke.
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All OCA pencil posts (Pinboard)
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