The Sunday Paper: Chapter 52
Well, well. I managed to keep this up for 52 weeks. Whatta ya know? Who’d a thunk it?
I have no idea where I’m going with that, so … onward, yes?
A-Section
The Roger Stone tapes. That’s a gift link, BTW. I forgot to mention that since this is my final Sunday Paper entry, Old Baldy, my good friend Jeff and I are holding a fire sale (of sorts) (I guess). Lots and lots of gift links. Maybe all ten of them!
And here’s the story behind the documentary. Gift link!
Russia’s independent media teeters under crackdown. Gift link!
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Gift link!
Wisconsin case could be a watershed on sex trafficking. And, seriously, talk about messed up. Oh, and gift link!
In South Korea, feminists face sexist backlash. (I have to hold onto some gift links here, because there’s good news, too. I think.)
The Outlook section was grim.
Metro
The pandemic has had a deleterious effect on public transit, which around here struggles anyway. The first link is not a gift link (sorry), but the second one has no paywall.
Read here about Mary McLeod Bethune. Gift link!
This is an especially great weather report about Saturday.
Here’s a bit of it:
Part of what made Saturday seem so much like spring was obviously the warmth, which arrived days ahead of schedule. It may also have been the bright sun and the breezes from the south.
Yes! That would explain it. And it makes so much more sense than my theory that it was actually colder than usual, but an alien was manipulating my mind to imagine otherwise.
You do realize I’m joking, right? Good.
I did take a walk yesterday, which was awesome. I hope to take another, assuming I ever finish finding these articles and typing this crap post.
Obits
People are dying here!
Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87.
“I could produce a story as fast as I could type,” Mears once acknowledged — and he was a fast typist. He became the AP’s Washington bureau chief and the wire service’s executive editor and vice president, but he always returned to the keyboard, and to covering politics.
Sherry Jones, an Emmy-winning documentary producer who wedded investigative reporting with dramatic visuals, crafting television films that explored foreign affairs, American politics and national security issues including the Cuban missile crisis and the CIA torture program approved after 9/11, died Feb. 14 at a hospital in Washington. She was 73.
The cause was cancer, said her friend Charlie McBride.
RIP Leonard Kessler Gift link!
Leonard Kessler, an author and illustrator who created more than 200 books for children, including an enduring classic, “Mr. Pine’s Purple House,” whose simple words and pictures encouraged readers to show their singular splashes of color in an often conformist world, died Feb. 16 at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 101.
His son, Paul Kessler, confirmed the death and said he did not yet know the cause.
Mr. Kessler credited his long and prolific career in part to his grandmother, a painter who gifted him a box of crayons when he was 6, declaring that with them, “you can paint your own world.”
As a college student in Pittsburgh, Mr. Kessler befriended future pop artist Andy Warhol. He later found his own calling in children’s literature, that magical genre offering young readers an introduction to the written word, an explanation of life around them and a glimpse of the universe beyond it.
Hope I didn’t give away too much of a sample. If so, the Post and its esteemed owner can take it up with me. I’m amenable.
Sports
Fans of this sport can endure almost anything. But the ongoing labor fight raises a question: Is it even worth it? A headline obviously written by someone who doesn’t understand baseball fans. We can endure almost anything. Really!
Witness the brief history of MLB work stoppages. In an already slow game played by well-paid athletes. And, by well-paid, I mean salaries the size of some third-world economies or your average municipal budget in some first-world country or other.
‘Slap Shot’ organist finds new career with expansion Kraken. Gift link!
Business
For low earners, no day care often means no pay.
I survived covid, but my career is ailing after boss calls illness ‘very bad timing’. Man, do I hear that. My boss is a real bitch. And I’m self-employed.
Arts & Style
There’s a show ready to scratch your niche.
In the galleries: Elevating the ordinary and mundane to sacred and monumental. Gift link!
Book World
And I’ve got to read this one, too!
Now, which one of those should get my last gift link? Oh, dear.
Travel
Book World continues in the Travel section!
Stuckey’s, the once-beloved road trip staple, tries to stage a comeback!
And my last gift link of the month goes to Rick Steves and his like!
Magazine
I’m starting to think we should all have bat (or bas) mitzvahs!
And if you haven’t figured these things out yet, well, really? 🙂
Another cute column from Damon Young about how weird it is to see an orthodontist as an adult. Boy, do I get that. My teeth are crap, thanks in part to having been sent to a crappy orthodontist when I moved to the Pittsburgh area. I had to get a retainer eventually because my teeth are so messed up, but that’s a long story I’ll save for my memoirs.
And I neglected to mention that my aunt and uncle failed to send me to the dentist, so there were problems because of that, too.
BTW, your memoir is on TBR list right here. 🙂 Along with about a million or so other books I want to read.
Okay, I’ll stop.
As they say, quit you’re ahead. (Ahead of what? I’d really like to know.)
And finally the Funnies!
Thank you, Stephan Pastis! You just gave me a wonderful idea.
You know, Tim Rickart, it could just as easily be called the “Mack Line.”
Thanks, Scott Stantis, for the reminder of how crappy my teeth are. LOL!
Originally published at http://randomandsundrythings.wordpress.com on March 7, 2022.
