Tuesday, October 10, 2017
from “every angle”
— Email from A & S (Arnie and Sheila) about how Lily and I looked great dancing
Monday, October 9, 2017
No you have it.
— Man letting me have the last everything bagel at the small bodega near The Center For Book Arts
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Cool guy.
— Moshe Pfefferman, “Cool Guy,” Transparent
Saturday, October 7, 2017
California wash.
— name of solvent
Friday, October 6, 2017
It’s the shadow.
— Dr. Hayashi on blood vessels I can see as he checks with a bright light
Thursday, October 5, 2017
I like it when you people are around.
— Bude
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
When you’re born you’re not given an age. You’re a baby.
— Sid
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
What a sight. A small frog hopping through a pool of blood that’s issuing from the head of a Viet Cong, lying on the green grassy lawn of the U.S. embassy.
— Don North ABC News, “06: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-July 1968),” The Vietnam War
Monday, October 2, 2017
Getting killed is forever. And, that was something that I had known theoretically but I now understood particularly.
— Harrison, “04: Resolve (January 1966-June 1967),” The Vietnam War
Sunday, October 1, 2017
After years of writing traditional profiles, McPhee was bored of the form, so he decided to write a quadruple portrait: one character (D) as revealed through separate interactions with three other characters (A, B and C). He came up with the structure first, then spent months trying to come up with the right people.
— Sam Anderson, "The Mind of John McPhee," The New York Times Magazine
Saturday, September 30, 2017
O shit! I didn’t realize there would be art in the stairwells!
— Lily after impulsively touching art in a stairwell at MAD
Friday, September 29, 2017
Congrats on getting your art in The Met.
— Joke Lily didn’t say to woman sketching behind ticket counter
Thursday, September 28, 2017
I’m busier now that I’ve retired.
— Man taking Bookbinding II A (lives in NJ with a wood shop, taking class to fix up old books passed down thru generations in his church)
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
My sister thought they were calming.
— Dr. Natbony on stock photos in frames
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
…where he worked for a time as a pastry chef at the Parker House. He shoveled snow in London, tinted photographs in Paris.
— Peter Coyote on Ho Chi Minh, “01: Déjà Vu (1858-1961),” The Vietnam War
Monday, September 25, 2017
The lodestar.
— John McCain, “The Fighter,” 60 Minutes
Sunday, September 24, 2017
What they looked like in the hand.
— Gabriel Willow on how birds were shot and named before binoculars existed
Saturday, September 23, 2017
So you don’t know and I don’t know. We have a lot in common!
— Old lady on bench in the Cooper Hewitt garden, wondering if there was someone speaking or singing next
Friday, September 22, 2017
He had this great idea! Making books for kids!
— Henry on Mr. Ding-A-Ling
Thursday, September 21, 2017
But the depression that overtakes me when I’ve turned in book, I must confess is real and deep.
— David Cornwell, “Le Carré,” 60 Minutes