Saturday, July 27, 2019
Saturday commute clxxiv: Travel for breakfast
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The party had spread out to visit the further corners of the site but Deeds, who knew from old not to waste time, headed me a...
Friday, July 26, 2019
Suppose it were Friday clxxv: "What shall we do, play cards?"
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One of the charmingest lines in the oeuvre of Alfred Hitchcock, in the sound era at any rate, finds the would-be assassin...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Origins of Wednesday xcvii: Books to let go of
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Winston Churchill, invoked already in the casual preposition in this title, argued equally wisely once for a cas- u al relati...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Some summer night
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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gang- ster. To me, being a gangster was better than ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019
White hot and humid
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The season is giving us wonderful things to talk about just now, in weather in the Northern Hemisphere which is simply punish...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Disgrace
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I'm in the middle of deliberating in the matter of interior paints, and at a minimum it strikes me as untimely of a Presi...
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Allons, enfants
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I listened to David Remnick's nuzzling interview with the politician, AOC, on The New Yorker Radio Hour on Saturday, ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Moving again, white
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We rediscover that the problem of the whites is that they shift, or are subject to shifts in various adventitious illuminations (...
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