On the news tonight: “assured and unassured Americans.”
No, “insured and uninsured Americans.”
I’m insured. But it's difficult to feel assured about anything right now.
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Friday, March 18, 2022
Misheard
Cellar music
Vera Lytovchenko, violinist, plays for the dozen or so people in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine: “Ukraine’s ‘Cellar Violinist’ Plays On Amid Heaving Bombing” (Billboard ).
More videos at TikTok.
“Puffing defiance”
Monica Gall is back in Canada a a long sojourn abroad.
A Mixture of Frailties is the third novel of Davies’s Salterton Trilogy.
This post is for my blogging friend Jim Lowe.
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Schwarzenegger speaks to Russians
You may have already seen the video. I didn’t know until I read a New York Times article this morning that when the video was posted, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Twitter account was one of twenty-two accounts that Vladimir Putin followed.
Schwarzenegger’s talk is a model of ethos, logos, and pathos.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Gall and grammar
Mrs. Alfred Gall, Ma Gall, has ideas about grammar:
A Mixture of Frailties is the third novel of Davies’s Salterton Trilogy.
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On Saint Patrick’s Day
Attaway, Hi-Lo Amalgamated: have Thirsty Thurston, the strip’s resident alcoholic, dress as a leprechaun and offer greetings.
This panel also loses points for Hi’s announcement. Yes, Hi, we see your tie.
Today’s strip worsens in its second panel: “You’re not even Irish,” says Thirsty. (As if Thurston is a recognizably Irish surname?) And Hi replies, “I can still be lucky, can’t I?” What a wag. But don’t you mean “get lucky,” Hi? Uh, no — it’s a family strip. There’s room for alcoholism, but there’ll be no fooling around.
If I may take a place on the Hi-Lo assembly line for a minute, I’d like to offer an idea. First panel: Trixie stares with a puzzled but happy expression. Second panel: we see that she’s staring at a green sunbeam. (Pantone 347 U.) And she thinks, “On Saint Patrick’s Day even sunbeam’s wearing green!” Aww.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.
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[The name Leddy is Irish.]
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Braingame
Norm and Dutchy (Yolande) Yarrow are at Waverly University; he in the chaplain’s department, she is an assistant director of recreation. They are giving a party. There has already been one party game, with people tied back to back having to get free. That was Dutchy’s idea. Now another game, suggested by the secretary to the registrar.
Good grief. It reminds me of a game of charades from my grad student days. Book title, two words, first word, first syllable, the gesture of pouring. I got it right away: Philosophical Hermeneutics, by Hans-Georg Gadamer. We’d all read it in a seminar. Good grief.
Leaven of Malice is the second novel of Davies’s Salterton Trilogy.
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Dumpsters
I was standing next to an abandoned apartment building, moving the contents of one dumpster to another. At the bottom of the first dumpster was a dinosaur, a brontosaurus, I think, with greenish-pinkish neon skin. It must be dead, I thought. But it bounded out of the dumpster and ran down the avenue. I tried to follow, but it had already disappeared. I figured I should tell someone.
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[Likely sources: watching the news, being stuck behind a garbage truck, seeing a bug on a picture frame and trying to figure out if it was alive. It was.]
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