For those super secret spy instructions

that have to be chewed & swallowed after you read them: message toast.
Particularly effective for missions involving marmalade.
Oh: Coming attractions updated.

Not my crusade, but.

My friend Tom F asked me to mention that he thinks it scandalous that the new Met Bulletin, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, does not transcribe the inscriptions on the medallions & larger reliefs in the collection.

Et lilium convallium

Made it to shape note for the first time in over a month, the singing just a few blocks away, bearing white bean & tuna salad and freshly baked cookies for the pot luck that distinguishes the Brooklyn sing. Fortunately the unofficial but acknowledged leader of the local shapenote community was with us, averting [...]

Lisa’s question

In her funny and thoughtful blog, mappa mundi, my friend Lisa (that’s Bronx Lisa, for those of you aware of the multiple Lisas in my life), asked this question:
What’s your favorite trait? Of yours, that is, not one you like to see in other people. And an actual one, not a quality you [...]