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— Charlie Brown (@Peanuts_comics) June 25, 2017
Chance For A Spinster
This is going around the web this week. It’s an ad from a guy looking for a wife in 1865:
[via Max Roser]
Tuesday Random Links
- Today is D-Day.
- Everyone talks about how Lynda Carter was the first Wonder Woman. She wasn’t.
- Walter Kirn on the shopping mall time machine.
- Lasting advice from writer Denis Johnson, who died in May.
- What one writer learned when he submitted his DNA to those testing services you see on TV.
- An interview with Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, and Norman Lear on their new documentary about aging.
- If Tommy Maitland, the host of ABC’s Gong Show reboot, looks familiar there’s a reason why.
- Burger King has those Mac n’ Cheetos things, so how about trying this recipe from 1945: Cheez-It Deviled Eggs.
Quote
“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
– Raymond Chandler, on writing
Wednesday Random Links
- The Telephone EXchange Name Project.
- The seductive nostalgia of the picnic.
- The power of paper.
- Tom Hanks really loves typewriters. A great interview at WBEZ.
- CBS Sunday Morning examines the real Einstein.
- Lee Smith on Jean Stein, who died earlier this week.
- Twin Peaks is coming back to TV later this year. Slate has several articles on how the show changed television.
- A recipe from 1928: Rice Krispies Date Pudding.
The Journalist
I can’t remember where I first saw the recipe for this drink – either in one of the many cocktail books I own or a web site – but I thought that in these tense days, reporters, correspondents, and writers in general need support more than ever. And booze is good support (also: money).
The Journalist
3/4 oz. gin
1/4 oz. dry vermouth
1/4 oz. sweet vermouth
1/4 oz. Cointreau (or orange Curacao)
1/4 oz. lemon juice
dash of Angostura bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Try not to tweet after having a few.
Daniel At Breakfast
I don’t know much about poetry. I used to read the stuff Bukowski wrote when he was drunk and I know a couple of dirty limericks, but I don’t read a lot of poetry. But I like this. It’s by Phyllis McGinley, and it was posted by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Twitter (I posted it in my Saturday Evening Post column last month). I was reading a book of McGinley’s essays and did a little research on her since I wasn’t familiar with her work. I discovered she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1961 and wrote several children’s books. She wrote the book the animated special The Year Without A Santa Claus (I’m Mister Heater Miser…) is based on.
Christmas 2016: Yabba-Dabba Yuletide
I don’t know why The Brian Setzer Orchestra decided to turn the theme from The Flintstones into a Christmas song, but I’m glad they did.
