Four years ago I wrote a post about the Baskerville typeface, Of course my post had to be titled The Font of the Baskervilles; I had no choice. And now we have an entire book called Baskerville, subtitled The Biography… Read More ›
Life
Bye bye Mark Z.
My Facebook account is going away, effective 24 hours from now. Find me on BlueSky at https://bsky.app/profile/ljdljd.bsky.social or by email at davidson.larry@gmail.com Bye bye Mark Z.
City Unseen
City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet is an amazing collection of 100 annotated images by Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba. Is it a collection of artistic images, you ask, or is it a collection of maps? Art… Read More ›
Wherever you go, there’s always someone Jewish.
These days, if you just see the title, you probably worry that the song is going to be some antisemitic diatribe on X/Twitter. But 25 years ago that wouldn’t have been your first impression; you would correctly have thought that… Read More ›
The traditional mid-day Christmas dinner…
…at Chau Chow today: Yum, yum!
Prostate cancer awareness
A parody performed as an important public service by the wonderful Marsh Family, with music of course by Kurt Weill and words by members of the Marsh Family themselves: https://youtu.be/IkVLe_qI2dw?si=PMaz9T5ef6fNi3Hj (sorry about the ad — not my choice)
“We need a little Xanax.”
Click to listen.
I can see clearly now…
No, not the famous song from the ’70s! In this case I mean it literally: I have just completed going through cataract and glaucoma surgeries in both eyes (a month apart), and the world looks different. Even though the surgeries… Read More ›
Santa
So here I was at CVS, waiting patiently to pick up a prescription, right behind a mother and child, when I heard the kid (maybe four years old or so) exclaim: Mama, mama, look, look! Santa is black! I looked… Read More ›
Thank you, Atrius, for making everyone feel welcome!
On entering the Chestnut Hill branch of Atrius Health, I see this sign as I’m about to enter Visual Services: And I do in fact feel welcome! It still looks a little blurry to me, but that might be because… Read More ›
Remember this?
I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, “It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.” DJT
Happy Labor Day!
Today is Labor Day. Remember, as Billy Bragg wrote (and sings), that there is Power in a Union… Not to mention https://youtu.be/wI7ONJ60DIc?si=3-4wk__QSQMWYVcg, but apparently WordPress won’t let me embed two links in the same post. And as Capybara8868 posted on… Read More ›
Two surprising Ancestry conclusions
Capitalization matters. Occasionally. The title of this post can be read as written, with an upper-case “A,” or it can be read as spoken aloud, with a lower-case “a” (not that case choice can easily be heard in speech, though… Read More ›
Harris/Buttigieg.
Clearly.
If you don’t love this book… what’s wrong with you?
Christine Lavin has been one of my favorite singer-songwriters for forty-odd years (some odder than others). I most recently saw her in concert three months ago, and that inspired me to read her memoir, Cold Pizza for Breakfast. Even though… Read More ›
Not just for nerds, not just for geeks.
Suppose you heard from someone (me, for instance) that you might enjoy a book titled Thinking Inside the Box. What would you expect it to be about? Perhaps some sort of pushback against those of us who advocate thinking outside… Read More ›
Learning Strategies 