Monday, May 22, 2023
It's a "big American move " (B.A.M ) one or two moves - not over complicated
— @mikeyfarris
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Because I always wonder how people perceive me. Not that it's gonna change what I think about myself, but I'm just curious.
— GranSan (Sandra Olivia Moon Hightower) via Zoë
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Referencing is really an obsessive compulsion for me
— Ian (potentially paraphrased)
Friday, May 19, 2023
HOW TO WATCH INDIANA JONES
— Title for list of how to watch The Complete Indiana Jones saga in chronological order, @connorratliff
Thursday, May 18, 2023
It lacks the ability to question twenty-five years of its own reporting.
— Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Jennifer Coolidge Corner
— Trivia team name
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Maddening that they killed 'Image Search'
& optimized it for shopping.
& optimized it for shopping.
— @emily_elsie
Monday, May 15, 2023
Open Call: Portraits of Women With Their Weight In Dough
— @santina_amato via @4heads_nyc
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Instead, the groups said, they simply believed in helping politicians indirectly — not by giving them money or buying them ads or mentioning their names, but by obliquely raising issues that could shift voters their way. To that end, the groups said, even fund-raising calls from “Frank Wallace” were part of their mission. Since they mentioned policing — a topic voters might care about — the calls were not a means to an end in the work of influencing elections. They were the work itself.
— David A. Fahrenthold and Tiff Fehr, "How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear," The New York Times
Saturday, May 13, 2023
To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses.
— Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion
Friday, May 12, 2023
Who wants to sit with that for so long to look at? It's really the whole package. It's not really image driven.
— Henry on Ed Ruscha News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues portfolio*
Thursday, May 11, 2023
There's a scribe on board named Antonio Pigafetta, who was not part of the crew, but he kept very good records of what was going on. They come around the world and come back. He thinks it's Wednesday and everyone there thinks it's Tuesday. "I don't know what happened here," and it's just sitting there in his notebook. And it is laid bare. The discovery of the need for an international date line.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, @startalk
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
WHY EVERYONE IN THE US ARE SNAPPING UP THIS CHICKEN YARD DECORATION?
— Advertisment on Breitbart.com
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Unfortunately we have completely run out of 70# uncoated text paper.
— Mixam
Monday, May 8, 2023
Now is the Past
— Title of book by Hai Hsin Huang via @metlibrary
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bill Hader Just Wants to Make Weird Things
— Interview title, The New Yorker
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Price's argument that distriution rather than production was the primary way works accrued meaning.
— Brad Troemel, "the post internet report"
Friday, May 5, 2023
He had fallen into “the habit of assessing briefings by weight," said Dick Lehman, a senior CIA analyst for three decades and latterly the man who prepared the president's daily briefing. “He would heft them and decide, without reading them, whether or not to accept them."
— Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Thursday, May 4, 2023
The landmark Memphis Pyramid touches tips with a Yield sign that is mounted on a slightly off-kilter vertical post. Along with the post’s shadow, the shadow of the photographer can be seen at the bottom right.
— Image caption, "Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander," The New York Times
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
John Trumbull
— Trivia answer I didn't know in "art and money" category, engraving of Trumbull's painting “Declaration of Independence” is on the back of the two dollar bill