Orange Crate Art

A post I wrote in 2008.

We watched just a few minutes of last night’s hatefest in Dallas, enough to hear the current occupant boast that no one was leaving as he spoke.

From a PBS e-mail: Ghost in the Machine is an investigative documentary exposing the buried history of artificial intelligence as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.

My son Ben let me know something I didn’t: that Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” borrows from Paul Clayton’s “Who’s Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I’m Gone),” which itself borrows from “Who Gon Bring You Chickens,” published in a 1927 compilat…

What did the thirsty lizard say?

Elle Cordova, “Modern Day Typographer.”

Slipping the surly bonds: Now with a link to a more expansive account of the current occupant’s 9/11 fantasies.

The current occupant is telling a new and improved version of his ever-shifting 9/11 saga.

“I feel like reading has changed my life.

A striking sentence from “An Approach to Style,” the E.B.

“We put the Q in QR1777”: “Fake AI ads in the West 4th Street subway station unite commuters in hatred of AI ads” (Gothamist ).

My brother Brian called attention to the Bobby Bland song “Farther Up the Road,” sometimes mistakenly titled “Further Up the Road.”

[Nancy, September 7, 2026.

Anyone who doubts that the current occupant has slipped the surly bonds of reality should take a look at his afternoon efforts in his TЯuth Social account.

Okay, if you’ve skipped the Yankee Diner and you’re not in the mood for Pure Food, take a walk on the wild side — in other words, a little farther down Avenue U.

“How Do You Talk?”

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is by the puzzle’s editor, Stan Newman, constructing as Lester Ruff.

[Mutts , September 5, 2026.

Matriculate is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day: Anybody who has had basic Latin knows that alma mater , a fancy term for the school you attended, comes from a phrase that means “fostering mother.”

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel, trans.

Daniele Del Giudice, A Fictional Inquiry, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel (New York: New Vessel Press, 2025).

From The Man I Married (dir.

[One to four stars.

“‘When we started, there was not even a term for sexual harassment,’ Ms.

From the New York Times obituary: “We live very segmented lives,” she told Time magazine in 1996.

In a post about renaming oceans, I imagined a straight-faced reporter asking the current occupant why he hasn’t yet renamed the Strait of Hormuz.