Website of the Day (responsorial)
Walt of Wayzata read the marvelous article we chose as our most recent Website of the Day — “Field of dreams: heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships” — and now reports: “It brought back the memory of when I worked for a few weeks on a farm near Silver Lake during threshing season. It was when I was 12 and 13.
Continue reading “After only a few weeks in the countryside, city boy goes straight!”
We will say (assert? maintain? declare? grunt? snort?) it simply: This is one of our favorite documents.
It’s the guidance Wolcott Gibbs gave to his fellow-editors of The New Yorker, in that magazine’s early years. It’s mostly great advice, still.
It’s lifted (by some other blogger, and copied, many years ago, by us — which might or might not explain the weird typography in Nos. 26 through 29) from the great James Thurber’s “The Years With Ross” — Ross being Mr. Ross, Mr. Ross being The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold Ross. (What do you think he’d have made of that sentence?!)
Our times
The Doryman of Prescott, Wisconsin: “Subject: He shed, she shed.
Continue reading “What’s the ultimate essential for a Man Cave or She Shed?”
Out of the mouths of babes
Zoo Lou of St. Paul: “It’s been said that out of the mouths of babes, who are honest and innocent, comes wisdom.
Continue reading “Let us be thankful for . . . thankful children!”
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