Monday, December 2, 2024
In the Night Kitchen: Fry Cook
From Fry’s obituary in The Guardian :
“ Though less of a public theorist than Eliot, Fry still believed passionately
in the validity of poetic drama. As he wrote in the magazine Adam :
‘In prose, we convey the eccentricity of things, in poetry their concentricity,
the sense of relationship between them: a belief that all things express
the same identity and are all contained in one discipline of revelation.' ”
Janet Leigh in "Harper" (1966)
Saturday, November 27, 2021
“Where you going? / Barcelona.” — Sondheim, “Company”*
* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
tagged with a phrase from a different show —
Send in the Clowns.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Space Force
New Yorker video today, at 14:00-14:25 —
"What's good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you're a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don't get often in life and that really feels good."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
"I can't get no… satisfaction…." — The Rolling Stones
The New Yorker recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —
"… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor."
"You want to put something in those spaces."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
Yes, you do.
Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.
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