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“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

books VirginiaWoolf
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Doc Watson (1923–2012)

This man was a giant — though it feels superfluous to say so.

guitar music
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Fathers and sons and ringtones

A good son would not let his father fumble for a month setting up Lady Gaga ringtones.

age technology
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The Beach Boys in Newsweek

A member of Brian Wilson’s band speaks.

BeachBoys BrianWilson music
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Memorial Day

One hundred years ago.

MemorialDay
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Misses Rheingold

For New Yorkers of a certain age, Rheingold is synonymous with beer.

dowdyworld NewYorkCity
6 hours ago

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Ellington and an iPhone app

“What is that music?” I asked myself.

DukeEllington iPhone jazz music
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Minimalist iPad stand

A doorstop, or an iStop.

iPad
5 days ago

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A mistaken bit of iPad folklore

About apps in the multitasking bar.

iPad
5 days ago

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Mac recommendation: AppDelete

My only connection is that of a happily paid-up user.

Mac
5 days ago

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How to improve writing (no. 37)

“Like at the post office.” Ugh.

howtoimprove writing
5 days ago

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Movie recommendation: Jiro Dreams of Sushi

“The willingness to look more and more deeply so as to discover ways to improve or reinvent one’s work offers a model for every form of endeavor.”

film food
5 days ago

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Dial-a-Poem

From the Museum of Modern Art: Dial-a-Poem.

poetry
5 days ago

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More on “Kokomo”

Arkhonia dislikes it.

BeachBoys music
5 days ago

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A musical analogy

“Kokomo” : The Beach Boys :: “What a Wonderful World” : Louis Armstrong.

BeachBoys LouisArmstrong music
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Beach Boys reunion dream

During an instrumental break, Mike leaned close to Brian to say “This doesn’t work anymore.” Brian nodded. It all took place in a dream.

BeachBoys dreams music
8 days ago

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Things I learned on my summer vacation (2012)

Many, many things.

life
8 days ago

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Domestic comedy

“Did I ever tell you about the etymology of apple?”

domesticcomedy words
12 days ago

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Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City (4)

The TW exchange.

telephone television
12 days ago

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Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City (3)

A GRamercy payphone.

telephone television
12 days ago

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Poetry and Naked City

Two grown-ups, quick, allusive, and crazy in love.

poetry television
12 days ago

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Hi and Lois watch

How to write in a window.

comics Hi&Lois
12 days ago

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Kurt Vonnegut on English studies

“Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.”

education
12 days ago

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An Old-Fashioned retronym?

Is the name Old-Fashioned a retronym, created after other cocktails came along?

words
12 days ago

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College Debt

A New York Times feature on the rising cost of college.

college
12 days ago

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Happy Mother's Day

A photograph, 1958?

Mother'sDay photography
12 days ago

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Bicycle safety, 1954

From Life magazine.

dowdyworld photography
12 days ago

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Shoe repairmen in the news

Shoe repairmen are the new typewriter repairmen.

dowdyworld
12 days ago

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At last

I am happy to see President Obama on the right side of history, at last.

culture politics
12 days ago

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Three great strip-mall restaurants

One of Tyler Cowen’s six rules for dining out: “Get out of the city and into the strip mall.”

food
12 days ago

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A Blogger reprieve

Yesterday the Blogger dashboard still warned of a “new look” arriving in April. Today the announcement has changed.

Blogger
12 days ago

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Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)

Illustration from A Hole Is to Dig.

art
12 days ago

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William H. Chace on plagiarism in college

“The arguments protecting or even championing plagiarism fall before the palpable evidence of originality, modest and grand, ephemeral and enduring, as it has existed in writing everywhere.”

academia plagiarism
12 days ago

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Contrapuntalism

A new site from the creator of Blackwing Pages.

music pencils photography
23 days ago

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Indy serendipity

Only after the fact did we learn that we had met Hal Fryar, Harlow Hickenlooper of Indianapolis children’s television.

Indianapolis television
23 days ago

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Kurt Vonnegut, Manager

Letterhead from Cape Cod Saab dealership, managed by Kurt Vonnegut.

KurtVonnegut paper
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But also across time

Connecting past and present via the Internet: a 1925 photograph as seen in 2012.

Internet past time
24 days ago

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E-mail in the air

On not checking it and not using exclamation points in it.

e-mail punctuation
24 days ago

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Eponym of the day: satyr

The Greeks have nearly swept A.Word.A.Day’s week of eponyms.

Greek names words
24 days ago

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Hi and Lois watch

The wrong-way-window-writing glitch.

comics Hi&Lois
24 days ago

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Arkhonia on the Beach Boys

Arkhonia cares about the Beach Boys’ musical legacy and writes about that legacy at length.

BeachBoys BrianWilson music
24 days ago

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Time-saving formulas

Humanists: if you’re still doing grades by hand, you might want to look into creating a spreadsheet.

teaching
24 days ago

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Eponym of the day: hector

“Hector is a brave and dutiful character, but unfortunately his name is now sullied in the language.”

Greek Homer Iliad names words
24 days ago

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Marjorie Perloff on the “well-crafted” poem

To my mind, such stuff gives poetry a bad name. There’s an awful lot of it around.

poetry
24 days ago

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Blogger, a mess

Google, please be advised that better communication would make it easier to believe (even if mistakenly) that you care about Blogger users.

Blogger
24 days ago

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Nancy is here

Justice, thy name is Nancy. And Sluggo.

comics
28 days ago

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The three sons

From R. Crumb’s Genesis: at least one joke has slipped in.

cartoons RobertCrumb
28 days ago

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A week of eponyms

From A.Word.A.Day

Greek names words
28 days ago

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Overheard

Just saying no.

overheard
28 days ago

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As exams approach

A 1951 Life photograph of a novel way to study.

exams photography
28 days ago

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On Duke Ellington’s birthday

“The popularity of it doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean anything, because when you get into popularity, then you’re talking about money and not music.”

DukeEllington jazz music
28 days ago

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Vegan phở

Recipes from the New York Times.

food
28 days ago

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Orange Crate Art: Rice and beans à la Hannity

Sean Hannity echoes The Grapes of Wrath.

culture food JohnSteinbeck
4 weeks ago

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Blackwing Pages for the taking

Nobody likes to be used.

Blackwing pencils
4 weeks ago

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Inappropriate stock photo accompanies news item

“Female healthy lifestyle.”

newspapers photography
4 weeks ago

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Overheard

“I’m gonna give you three seconds to put that violin down, nice and easy.”

overheard television
4 weeks ago

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Hi and Lois watch

I made a few improvements in about ten minutes, using the open-source Mac image-editor Seashore.

comics Hi&Lois
4 weeks ago

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Tim Johnson on the line

Tim Johnson (R, Illinois-15), who retires this year, is the subject of a New York Times profile that emphasized above all his habit of telephoning his constituents.

politics telephone
4 weeks ago

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Infinite Jest in the App Store

The App Store is on drugs.

Apple DavidFosterWallace
5 weeks ago

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More imaginary liner notes

My imaginary liner notes for the fifth and sixth 45s in Van Dyke Parks’s singles project are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.

music VanDykeParks
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