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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by serious crayons on June 23, 2026, 02:02:11 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 23, 2026, 01:10:45 pm
Jill Lepore
Louis Menand
Adam Gopnik
Ben Taub
David Remnick
Peter Hessler
Patricia Marx
Roz Chast (cartoons)

I'm sure there are others; I just can't remember them off the top of my head.  I pulled these names from the TOCs of the four issues on my to-read pile plus two in the Recycle bag.

Anybody else got a list?

My list would share a lot of names with yours. I'm not familiar with the work of Ben Taub or Peter Hessler, but I like all the others. (Well, I don't really "like" David Remnick -- he seems like kind of a jerk and I'm not that interested in Russia, which he writes about a lot -- but I give him credit as editor.)

I would add David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, Jia Tolentino, Emily Nussbaum, Ariel Levy, Leslie Jamison. I'd probably read Ronan Farrow and David Grann. I'd include Anne Applebaum and Elizabeth Kolbert because I respect their expertise, but most global politics and the environment are duty articles for me. I used to include Anthony Lane but I got kind of sick of his sometimes forced humor. Simon Rich (son of longtime New York Times' columnist Frank Rich) and Jack Handey sometimes write Shouts & Murmurs that are actually funny.

Not all of those are must-reads, with the exception of Sedaris, Menand, Gopnik, Chast and Smith. But the others I'd at least check out.




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The Polling Place / Re: How are you spending the summer solstice?
« Last post by serious crayons on June 23, 2026, 01:41:51 pm »
Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 22, 2026, 07:38:13 pm
So, you're asking for a ritual or observance of some sort? Here's something you can do. Observe where the light comes in a certain window at noon or a time of your choosing. Hang a special image there on the wall, or make a little mural or something. I have a painted turtle shell (by a Native American artist, that I'm hanging in the light of the summer solstice.

I guess my ritual is watching where/when the sun falls on my balcony or directly into the wall of windows in front of it. Around the winter solstice I get about 10 minutes of direct sunlight a day; the rest of the time the sun is behind another wing of the building. It emerges from the side of the building in February, then keeps moving until, in summer, I get direct sun from about 2:30 on (would be longer but the roof over my balcony blocks the sun when it's at its highest). Then the daily question becomes when will the sun go behind the huge tree so I get some shade on my balcony and it's not too hot to sit out there and read.

I've had to slightly adjust my custom since a huge limb broke off the big tree at the forefront of my view. Actually, what broke off is more like one of five trunks; the tree is, I would guess, about 12-15 feet in circumference at its base. I fear for the health of the rest of the tree -- if they took it completely out I'd still have a nice view of the park behind it but the loss of that massive tree and its dappled shade would change everything.




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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on June 23, 2026, 01:10:45 pm »
This morning I was looking through my backlog of issues, marking those I wanted to read. It occurred to me then that I have a list of authors I always read, no matter what their subjects:

(In no particular order)

Jill Lepore
Louis Menand
Adam Gopnik
Ben Taub
David Remnick
Peter Hessler
Patricia Marx
Roz Chast (cartoons)

I'm sure there are others; I just can't remember them off the top of my head.  I pulled these names from the TOCs of the four issues on my to-read pile plus two in the Recycle bag.

Anybody else got a list?
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on June 23, 2026, 10:30:03 am »
WTF, Purple???

Connections
Puzzle #1108
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🟦🟦🟩🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Skill 82/99
Uniqueness 1 in 4,115
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on June 23, 2026, 10:24:23 am »
Wordle 1,830 3/6

🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜CRANE
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜TOILS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩CURRY

WordleBot
Skill 96/99
Luck 59/99
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The Holiday Forum / Re: Happy Longerdays!
« Last post by Front-Ranger on June 23, 2026, 09:37:54 am »
Happy Shorterdays! One benefit of shorterdays is I don't have to wear a sleep mask to avoid being woken by the sun at 5 am. Come on, let's give shorterdays some love!
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The Lighter Side / Re: Photo Captions - Irreverent! Beware
« Last post by CellarDweller on June 22, 2026, 08:56:26 pm »



Jack:  Ya see this, Ennis?

Ennis:  A'yup!  Trump was here.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Photo Captions - Irreverent! Beware
« Last post by CellarDweller on June 22, 2026, 08:55:51 pm »



Jack:  Why are you washing the dishes in the creek?

Ennis:  The last time I washed your dishes in the reflecting pool, the water got full of algae.
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The Polling Place / Re: How are you spending the summer solstice?
« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on June 22, 2026, 07:54:10 pm »
Quote from: serious crayons on June 22, 2026, 01:31:49 pm
S/he's right, mainly because it stays warm and nice out for quite a while after June 21, so we don't have to start dreading short days until Labor Day, at which point it's like someone flips a switch. (Although personally, I tend to start dreading it as soon as I get catalogs with sweaters on the cover and I see a school-supply aisle in the store.)

I'm with you there. Department stores start putting out cold weather merchandise as well.
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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Last post by Front-Ranger on June 22, 2026, 07:40:16 pm »
Yes. Before fan fiction, slash was yard clippings greater than just grass or leaves. And the ice cream was deductible because my grandsons were my hired help.
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