🔗 You can’t take three from two — but apparently you can take all the lyrics and do whatever you want with them: Tom Lehrer is giving it all away…
🔗 You can’t take three from two — but apparently you can take all the lyrics and do whatever you want with them: Tom Lehrer is giving it all away…
I wonder if the world needs another podcast.
(I think I’d need to do some processing & color-correcting to get my iPhone camera to see what I see: they aren’t quite this yellow to my eye, they’re a bit more amber. But this isn’t too bad.)
Our street is lined with ginkgo trees, whose leaves are turning the loveliest light gold. Such a calm color to see out our windows. And they seem even more luminous on a grey day like today than under the sun and its crisp blue skies.
Some things keeping me busy:
🔗 Twin Cities voters flock to early voting centers in huge numbers
Twenty-fifth anniversary today. We’re celebrating by… doing laundry.
Later, a takeaway dinner from our favorite neighborhood restaurant, then the West Wing special on HBO Max.
Aaand… snow flurries.
We were the second and third people to go in. When we came out twenty minutes later, a line of maybe ten people had already formed. Everyone was going out of their way to be polite. So well organized. It was such a calm, civilized experience.
Voting early this morning. I will be curious to see if there’s much of a line, or any red hats there to “monitor.”
A Day in the Life
Minneapolis, 05:30 CDT
How I begin every morning: tea for her, coffee — and the blank page — for me.
🔗 HBO: the trailer for a staged reading of Hartsfield’s Landing, from Season 3 of The West Wing, with the full original cast (and with the part of Leo played by Sterling K. Brown).
Amazing lightning show this morning. Either there’s a big storm coming my way, or someone’s opening the Ark of the Covenant down in Chanhassan.
A gentle reminder: When we say we dislike a word, phrase, idiom, or grammatical or syntactical variation, we’re really saying we dislike the people who employ it.
The Covid screening I have to do every morning reminds me that my normal body temperature is so low that 98.6º is, for me, a two degree fever.
So science confirms it: I am in fact very cool!
Do you ever find yourself thinking, “Hmm, y’know, maybe I have enough books”?
Yeah, me neither.
ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges ‘hysterectomies on immigrant women in US’
If you vote for Trump, you vote for this.
The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: on 9/11, violence, language, and The West Wing.
(I wrote this in May but I woke up thinking about it this morning, so here it is.)
From 10 July to yesterday, I posted bookmarks from 43 different bookstores. Sixteen of them are closed and twenty-seven are still around. A better ratio than I was expecting.
But too many are gone without having been replaced, and we are poorer and more vulnerable for it.
And this brings us to the end of the run.
I will continue occasionally posting other bookmarks — and things that serve as bookmarks — as they turn up in my books. But I’ve posted something daily throughout April, May, and July–August, so I’m ready for a break.
This version surfaced a few weeks ago, too late to be included in the original post.
An excellent bookstore so richly and lovingly stocked, it seems much larger than it is.
