Item #1: On October 22, I wrote, on what I thought was good authority, that white rapper Eminem was endorsing candidate Trump for President. But then I saw that he was at a rally in Detroit to introduce Barack Obama as a speaker. And that he actually endorsed Harris for the job.
As a person committed to facts, I went back to my various sources to find where I got the wrong information. Misinformation is what they call it, and it is different from disinformation in that the people who are misinformed are capable of admitting it and acknowledging their mistakes.
I stand corrected.
Item #2: A column by Heather Cox Richardson makes it clear that the Jeff and Elon Show is about power, control, and money. I have never been a fan of either of these multi-billionaires. I could spend the rest of this blog explaining why, but Heather does it far more eloquently than I can. Go here if you’re interested.
Item #3: My friend P and I have a literary bargain. She gives me The New Yorker in exchange for the Sunday New York Times book review section. Imagine my surprise when the August 19, 2024 issue of The New Yorker was called “An Archival Issue” and featured various literary friends from the past interspersed with news of the present. I felt quite at home.
Pauline Kael was an arts critic, and her contribution to this issue was a review of the film “Funny Girl,” featuring Barbra Streisand, that debuted in 1968. She wrote for the magazine 24 years.
Ogden Nash contributed his quirky verse to The New Yorker for more than 40 years. The poem selected for this edition is called “So That’s Who I Remind Me Of” and was first published in 1942.
Then there are cartoons by Charles Addams, a poem from Phyllis McGinley, and a comic strip by Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, and Lillian Ross also show up.
This is probably boring to anyone who doesn’t recognize these names. For me, however, it’s an antidote to today’s rancor over the election. I’ll probably look for other outlets for such comfort between now and November 5.
How about you?
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