Orange Crate Art

[Yesterday afternoon.

Noah Berlatsky reports on the rise and fall of Katie Zachariah.

[4017 Avenue U, Marine Park, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.

[Jonathan Capehart (MSNOW) and Matthew Continetti (Wall Street Journal columnist) on the PBS NewsHour last night.

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper, by Matthew Sewell, is one satisfying puzzle.

Katie Zacharia’s first press briefing: She’s out.

“Our team at APM Reports dug up a whole new story about teaching and learning — and what happens when deeply held beliefs clash with evidence”: there’s now a second season of Emily Hanford’s podcast Sold a Story that focuses on teaching itself and investi…

From an NPR story: So if you’ve got 20 minutes this week, think about a strength that you’d like to invite into your life and take a baby step to lean into it.

A second curious term in the signage at Sam’s Dairy: fancy groceries .

[“Quote Slam, Cont’d.”

I missed this one.

My daughter Rachel warned me that it’s painful to watch.

Table luxuries, anyone?

From a movie review: [Graham] Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.

Good Lord, it’s painful.

AI is in the air at the university where I taught for thirty years.

The signage at Sam’s Dairy has a couple of curious terms.

From Why Do We Say That?

[Surveying the books and writing materials ranged across the sofa .]

[4116 Avenue U, Marine Park, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.

So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S. national security position of support for Ukraine and our European allies, Trump is openly backing Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

Let t equal time and p equal pleasure: sometimes, only sometimes, the t and p of a Newsday Saturday Stumper will begin to move in opposite directions.

Morning becomes Ernie Bushmiller: Now with a link to a New York Times article.

“If you clap a little more, I may share this award with Trump”: Navi Pillay, on learning that she will receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Van Dyke Parks mentioned to me that he and Eva Marie Saint were both on a television show when he was a child.

Daughter Number Three reminds us that today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the premiere of the PBS kids’ show Arthur.

[Zero to four stars.

In an interview with Dutch television, Van Dyke Parks talks about “Heroes and Villains” and the loss of Brian Wilson: “What I’ve lost with the death of Brian is a witness, a person who was there.

A certain children’s magazine appears to be notorious for renewing subscriptions without a customer’s approval.

[Eva Marie Saint at the Academy Awards, 1955.

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Asleep in the Sun, trans.

Lucio Bordenave has agreed to have his wife Diana, aka the missus, taken off to Dr.

Morning becomes Ernie Bushmiller: Now with a link to a New Yorker piece about A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.

“You can do either” Now with a suggestion that Iran could destroy Los Angeles or San Diego.

Via Aaron Rupar: Q: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it’s fraud?

I wish I had missed this one.

In The New York Times (gift link), Jeff Tweedy annotates Woody Guthrie’s “America Singing,” a prose piece published in the Times on April 4, 1943.

A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, a play about the celebrated cartoonist, soon begins a six-performance run in Brooklyn.

[27 Union Square West, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941.

[Zippy , October 4, 2026.

I missed the date: Orange Crate Art turned twenty-two on September 15.

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is by Joel Fagliano of NYT Games.

Three wonderful granddaughters have each altered the venerable “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” substituting the fifth note of the scale (sol) for the second (re) in the song’s final line: “How I wonder what YOU are.”

A great episode of 99% Invisible : “Tootle of a Devilish Song,” all about yodeling.

Have you read the transcript of the current occupant’s September 28 interview with Time ?

From a Here and Now interview with Sherry Turkle about her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines : I'm not looking to a world where we evolve with AI into a posthuman thing.

“Big Jim is a nearly 32-foot-tall aluminum statue of a fisherman, clad in old-style yellow oilskins, holding a giant can of Maine sardines”: you can see him in this report about the Penobscot Marine Museum’s SardineFest.

The most recent episode of This American Life , “An Argument,” is devoted to one story: the decision two affluent, Black Brooklyn parents made to send their daughter to a low-income, mostly Black public school, and the years of education (or miseducation)…

Elaine and I were married forty-two years ago today.

Robert W.