Friday, July 31, 2026

Quote of the Day (Noah Baumbach, Imagining Keith Richards’ Desert Island Disks and Dinner)

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“DAY ONE. Rigged a distress flag with me gypsy scarf, but it droops like Mick's jowls. While waiting for it to fly, played all ten disks...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Quote of the Day (Laurence Sterne, on Error and Human Nature)

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“The laws of nature will defend themselves;⁠—but error⁠…error, Sir, creeps in thro’ the minute holes and small crevices which human nature l...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Song Lyric of the Day (Classics IV, With an Appropriate Tune for Recent Turbulent Weather)

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“You were the sunshine, baby, whenever you smiled But I call you 'Stormy' today.” — James Cobb and Buddy Buie, “Stormy,” performed b...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Photo of the Day: A Prized Pirate’s Locker, PNC Park, Pittsburgh

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With this past weekend’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction of Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran, and Andruw Jones, it seemed like an appropriate point...

Quote of the Day (Alexander Pope, Uniquely Translating the Circe Episode in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’)

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“The goddess, rising, asks her guests to stay, Who blindly follow where she leads the way. Eurylochus alone of all the band, Suspecting frau...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Quote of the Day (Jimmy Breslin, on the Original Mets as Lovable Losers)

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“You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is a team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who l...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Photo of the Day: Fireworks Display, PNC Park, Pittsburgh PA

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I took the image accompanying this post a little over two weeks ago, while visiting a close relative in Pittsburgh. Several times before, I ...