It doesn’t qualify as a profound insight to notice that every child — hell, every person — alive today will have their photo taken a million times before they check out. Maybe more than that, if you throw in security cameras, which I’m not. I’m talking about how, as cameras have become omnipresent, we’re all more comfortable with having our picture taken.
If you grew up in the era where your parents might expose a single roll of film in six months, it’s a little unnerving. Yes, it’s great to have a bunch of pictures of your family. Yes, it’s also weird to point a camera at a child, and have them immediately step into a pose and flash a big insincere smile, the way mom and dad taught them. Where are the sullen teens of yore? Whatever.
Anyway, that’s all leading up to this: One of the things I did this weekend was go through some family pictures and artifacts my sister’s been keeping. I brought home my birth certificate, my high-school diploma, and a few snapshots.
My dad and his dad, whom I never met, c. 1943. My dad was meticulous in his appearance, and had his uniform tailored to his specifications. Looking at my grandfather, I can see it ran in the family.
I don’t know when that was taken, but St. Louis was a hot city. Imagine wearing a three-piece suit in that humidity.
Me and my brother, and me and my sister. This would be our house in Kansas City, most likely:
I had a bad problem with blinking when flashbulbs went off.
My very earliest memories were in that house; I think I must have been about…4? Maybe? After K.C., it was on to Columbus, where we settled and stayed.
Now these photos have been scanned and digitized, but I’ll keep the originals, where they’ll live in my family until Kate takes them, or throws them away, or they burn up in a fire.
I should toss my high-school diploma, though. Finishing high school is so bare-minimum, I wonder why anyone hangs on to theirs. But it seems wrong, somehow. Mine still has the sheet of onionskin paper that covers the precious diploma itself. It’s a thing of value! It cost the state of Ohio something to educate me. Better find a box to stash it in.
Also, this: I applied for a job a few years ago, not really wanting it, but curious what it might involve, and I was rejected for, get this, failing to attach a college transcript to my application, which was submitted online, of course. I think my college transcript must be in a moldy box in the basement of the registrar’s office, but never mind that, because it makes a pretty good segue to the bloggage, which today is a little dated. I’ve been throwing links into a blank doc for a few days now, so let’s lead with the evisceration of Indiana University, victim of a MAGA governor seeking to polish his national profile by gutting a fine institution. All in the name of “efficiency” and the needs of the job market, of course, which tracks with the right-wing insistence that college need be nothing more than a trade school for middle managers. (At least for your kids. The elite layer of the GOP will continue to send their offspring to the Ivies.) This Chicago Tribune editorial strikes the right note of are-you-kidding-me indignation, more so than any Indiana newspaper I’ve seen. But then, lots of IU journalism grads find jobs in Chicago, so no surprise there.
Here’s an amusing obit for a 105-year-old woman, a real GP OG, as I like to think of these dowagers:
Louise Booth, 105, passed away peacefully Thursday, July 3, 2025, at her home facing Lakeshore between Beacon Hill and Kerby in Grosse Pointe Farms. She was still of sound mind.
That’s a Booth of Booth Newspapers, back when owning newspapers was like owning a gold mine. They sold to Newhouse years and years ago, but they must have invested the pile wisely. Later paragraphs give the exact address of the house, in case any funeral burglars were confused. And while the obit isn’t amusing in the fashionable current trend of basically calling someone a lovable jerk — she seemed like a nice lady — I find any obit for someone who lasts that long into the postseason uplifting to read. Especially as she was still of sound mind.
The Sean Combs verdict happened so long ago it already feels like ancient history, but Monica Hesse at the WP has done a couple of good columns about it, which you can look up. This one, about so-called Alligator Alcatraz, is very good, too:
The point is that serious matters — the most serious matters, the matters of constitutionality, due process, citizenship and who gets to be an American — are, in this administration, being increasingly presented as cheap entertainment. You see it in the U.S. Border Patrol playing the power ballad “Closing Time” over footage of a scared looking young man being placed in handcuffs and shepherded onto a plane. You see it in the White House posting a video of detained migrants being processed for deportation, set to a hit from Bananarama.
Is it funny? Is it awful? Is it trolling or real life? The point is that we are not supposed to know. Alligator Alcatraz is a dehumanizing place, but when it is treated as spectacle, it’s not just the prisoners there who lose their humanity. We all do. The effect is to tell Americans not to take any of this too seriously. Families are being ripped apart, but it’s all for the lulz. We are dancing on the edges of constitutionality, but it’s making great television. We have become tonally incoherent, incapable of even determining tone. If Guantánamo Bay opened today, there would be a themed restaurant out back with happy hour specials taglined “Git mo’ at Gitmo.”
…I used to wonder about Roman gladiator battles. What kind of society would pack up a picnic lunch and go watch other humans, the enslaved or prisoners of war, forced to battle each other to the death? Another part of the gladiator legend is that these men were forced to fight large beasts, large carnivorous predators. But there was no physical evidence for that until just a few months ago in April, when archaeologists analyzed giant bite marks on the unearthed skeleton of a 1,800-year-old gladiator. Then it was confirmed: lions. In what society would this be a pleasant way to spend an afternoon?
Finally, a really interesting Atlantic story (gift link, as is the WP link above) about so-called customer-service sludge. Having recently spent 90 minutes on hold with the IRS without getting anyone on the line, I can identify. It’s maddening.
Dexter Friend said on July 9, 2025 at 1:33 pm
When I was discharged from active duty at old Fort Lewis, Washington, I was told to report to my local vet-rep to get on file for possible benefits, now or later. Years passed, decades melted, I occasionally checked in with the VFW rep, was told “you don’t have anything coming…”. I finally just quit asking. VFW Magazine always reported than any war-time claims must be verified by at least 1 or 2 soldiers in your platoon. I had no addresses , it had been like forever. Then I began hearing how Viet-vets were finally getting some benefits. I went to my new local rep, produced documents, including the invaluable DD-214, and the rep snorted and insinuated I had forged or doctored-up my papers which clearly showed Viet Nam service time. Phone calls, even , after I got agitated, photographs of me in jungle fatigues, didn’t speed up the process. Finally, some VA officer in Toledo/Ann Arbor verified that I was me and by gawd, I was in like Flynn. But first I needed more paperwork…my shrunken wallet-sized DD-214 was not acceptable, so the search began. I have a few old lock-boxes and small old attaché cases in a closet, and fuckin’ A ! I found my 6 year discharge, my high school diploma, and the full-size stack of copies of the DD-214. Also, 2 precious snapshots of my terrier, Ben, who was my best-buddy dog from 1957 until he passed in 1971. He hung on long enough for me to say goodbye.
Seven months later I was approved for a 50% disability with free medicines and free health care. It only took 44 years. I got a little back-pay, just exactly enough to kill off a big-ass credit card balance.
I framed the photographs of Ben, and I see them every day. I loved that dog.
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Sherri said on July 9, 2025 at 1:55 pm
Lest we forget, we are the kind of society that turns torture into public spectacle. Lynchings were spectator events: https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-public-spectacle-lynchings/
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Suzanne said on July 9, 2025 at 2:00 pm
After spending untold hours cleaning crap out of my mom’s house, I had a tidy fit here at home and decided to recycle some old magazines and ran across this article from 2023:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/tv-politics-entertainment-metaverse/672773/?gift=F58N5IOcUo4qAP_lFh-H9w46yAZk0VTCNj_fHcUE5DI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
“Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.”
It’s an eye opening piece (that I hope I posted as a gift article) and helps explain the spectacle that the current administration is presenting to an audience happily taking it all in.
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jcburns said on July 9, 2025 at 2:10 pm
So glad you’re still of sound mind, Nancy!
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Jeff Gill said on July 9, 2025 at 2:39 pm
Working on finding a secured memory care unit that takes Medicaid, as we approach the end of our mother’s assets, and the answer is about what you’d think. There are places that take Medicaid, and there are places that still provide “ambulatory memory care” but the overlap circle is small . . . and you go on wait lists. Meanwhile, it turns out my sister’s accountant* gave her bad advice on how to compensate our brother in helping provide care, so our “look back” is going to leave us on the hook between the two of us for 18 months regardless. The Medicaid advisor we’re sent to is a private contractor (so can we really trust him?) who is strongly urging we shift her from the memory care facility she’s in to a Medicaid qualified facility immediately, so we can start the process of getting the waiver and covering the look back penalty period, but that means a facility with one star (barely one, flickering) and 50 miles away . . . or being consigned to a major payment each month until the end of this drama, all of which she’s blithely unaware of. We’re talking around $2,500 apiece for the privilege of having her close enough to visit regularly, when she doesn’t know who we are, but we do . . .
There are times it would be nice to be unethical. I doubt Trump visited Fred all that often his last few years, but I could be wrong.
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Julie Robinson said on July 9, 2025 at 2:57 pm
No clicks left for the Trib, but it’s not just IU, though the cuts there seem to be the most severe. (Including the defunding of the student newspaper.) Liberal arts programs are being eliminated at all the public schools, so if you want to study Spanish or French you’ll have to go private or out of state. My old department, Religious Studies, has a 404 instead of a webpage now, so I’m unable to even find out the impact in terms of professors and classes.
While I bitch about how thin and expensive the Orlando Sentinel is, they’ve been unrelenting in their pressure on DeathSantis and other politicians. One of Sunday’s editorials referred to the savagery implicit in “the imagery of brown people getting out of line and being ripped bloody by alligators or suffocated by snakes”. Today a columnist pointed out that the camp was built under an emergency order by DeathSantis due to the so-called Biden Border Crisis, an order that has been extended 15 times and now runs over 1000 days.
Several state legislators, including both my state rep and senator, showed up and asked for an inspection, as is their lawful right. They were there over an hour and were turned away by officials stating it wasn’t safe. One of them very logically asked how it could be safe for detainees if it wasn’t safe for them.
Add to this all the pols in Texas who consistently voted against warning systems for an area so flood-prone it was known as Flash Flood Valley? And a governor who responds to the safety question with a rambling statement on how everyone in Texas loves football? I’m not sleeping well.
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Alan Stamm said on July 9, 2025 at 4:48 pm
Ah, the perks of birthday, Christmas and other gifts from Great-Grandma Booth/Aunt Louise . . .
. . . who “kept in touch with her large family, providing emotional and financial support to her grandchildren, step-grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces in Virginia.”
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Deborah Beckett said on July 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm
I finished Not My Type, I’m commenting again about it, I couldn’t recommend it more. After hearing that there’s a delightful audio version read by E. Jean Carrol herself, I’m going to get it and listen to the hole fabulous thing. I can’t tell you how much it made me happy and hopeful, maybe if we try hard and push we can actually make something better, after this horrendous, long, episode of hate and incompetence.
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David C said on July 9, 2025 at 6:29 pm
While packing our stuff, I found a credit card sized copy of my college diploma. I don’t know what that was supposed to be for. Whipping it out of my wallet and saying “Bow down to me, I’m a graduate of Ferris State University” doesn’t seem quite possible. I still have the full size from their best copy machine and my transcript though. Neither seems like it would be of any more use than the credit card sized.
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Mark P said on July 9, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Ninety minutes on hold at the IRS and no one ever picked up? It’s working exactly as intended. It’s past time that we realized that we are living in the modern instantiation of Nazi Germany. If you’re in the party and wealthy, everything works. If you’re not, prepare to suffer.
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Deborah Beckett said on July 9, 2025 at 6:33 pm
Of course I meant whole and not hole.
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Brandon said on July 9, 2025 at 7:43 pm
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/fall/handling-photos.html
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Jeff Gill said on July 10, 2025 at 7:25 am
All hail the Bulldogs.
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ROGirl said on July 10, 2025 at 7:49 am
The Booth family founded Cranbrook over 100 years ago, a remarkable and influential cultural institution that’s still part of the community.
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alex said on July 10, 2025 at 8:30 am
Yay Cranbrook! I was recently surprised to learn at an architecture lecture that Eero Saarinen collaborated with a Fort Wayne building contractor, A.C. Wermuth, to build Cranbrook. They struck up a partnership because Saarinen spoke no English but was fluent in German and so was Wermuth.
Saarinen designed Wermuth a house and it’s a stone’s throw from mine and it’s incredible. https://phosimaging.com/ac-wermuth-house
At the lecture I also learned more about Cranbrook. It was modeled after Germany’s Bauhaus art school and became a refuge for Jewish architects, artists and academics who were being driven out of Europe. Hitler closed down the Bauhaus school in 1933 even though it was the envy of the world for all of its innovation.
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ROGirl said on July 10, 2025 at 9:13 am
I grew up a few miles from Cranbrook and in the summer I would ride my bike over there with a friend and wander around. There’s a statue of the head of Zeus on a plinth with a bunch of paving stones in front of it. If you stand on a certain stone at the side, water shoots out of Zeus’s eyes. It will soak the person who’s standing in front of it.
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Icarus said on July 10, 2025 at 11:54 am
That Atlantic piece on sludge reminded me of my own gym-quitting stories. The most recent was back in 2017 when I stopped going into the office and WFH. I had a membership to the gym next door (to the Aon Center).
In May, I asked to end my membership, and apparently I needed to give 30 days’ notice. Since I was past the date, they were going to charge me for June. I asked if I could still use the gym during this time and RELUCTANTLY they said yes.
Fortunately, my credit card on file had expired, and they couldn’t bill me, not that they didn’t try successively so they could compound the late and failed transaction fees.
I got one call from the gym from some poor lady who obviously drew the short straw and said that if I don’t pay, it will go to collections. I told her, yeah no.
My credit report is clean. Apparently, they are too cheap to send something like this to collections.
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Deborah Beckett said on July 10, 2025 at 4:42 pm
Cranbrook is fantastic. I went there once with my husband and his students when he was still teaching architecture. The sculptor/furniture designer Harry Bertoia taught at Cranbrook back in the day. He’s one of my faves, we have a Bertoia sculpture in Chicago and in NM we have some knock offs of his chairs, both at the condo and the cabin. His chairs may not look comfy but if you have pads for the seats they’re just fine. Otherwise you get waffle bottom.
My next book is Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. I never read it when it came out but always wanted to. LB got a couple of free copies somewhere.
It’s hot today in Santa Fe at 89º now, but it’s still comfortable inside with ceiling fans only.
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Julie Robinson said on July 10, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Erik Larson was still writing good books then. The last two I read were in desperate need of severe editing, and reviews suggest his most recent is no different.
Beautiful house, Alex, though all those levels would be challenging for many of us. Hope it’s gotten TLC since then.
My experiences with customer support suggest most are completely untrained and can only read the next suggestion on their screen based on a key word you’ve said. So not any better than a chatbot, who I’ve never gotten a helpful answer from. When they hand you off you always have to start over.
At one point on my colonoscopy odyssey I hadn’t been sent prep info, and when I called to enquire was told I’d canceled the appointment. I had not. As she poked around in the system she acknowledged it had been someone on their end but found no rationale. Rescheduling meant a change in location, which meant a new authorization had to go in to the insurance company, yada, yada, yada.
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Ann said on July 10, 2025 at 6:19 pm
I’ve spent a lot of time lately looking for documents. Daughter and her family are moving to Toronto for her husband’s job. It occured to me to wonder if she could get Canadian citizenship since she had a Canada-born grandfather. It would make things much easier, including avoiding the 25% surcharge on real estate transactions by non-citizens. So we needed to find her birth certificate, my husband’s birth certificate, his father’s birth certificate, and his father’s death certificate. She had hers, we were able to order the death certificate (and then, of course found we already had one) and amazingly found his father’s official birth certificate from Windsor, May 2, 1920. The left my husband’s birth certificate. We had a crinkly piece of paper from Deaconess Hospital saying he was born there, but that didn’t count. Ordered certified copy from Detroit and six weeks later we got it. All submitted. Now we wait.
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Jason T. said on July 10, 2025 at 8:44 pm
I’m not kidding when I say the only thing that I knew about “Cranbrook” was that Chrysler named a Plymouth car after it. I doubt many Plymouth Cranbrooks were ever seen at Cranbrook.
But for that matter, I doubt many Plymouth Belvederes were ever seen at Belvedere Palace in Vienna, or whether many Plymouth Savoys made it to the French Alps.
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Icarus said on July 11, 2025 at 9:02 am
anybody here ever do a bathroom remodel? The shower in our Master Bathroom* had some cracked tiles. This allowed moisture to get inside and apparently whomever built this shower used ordinary drywall instead of the proper sheetrock.
Anyhoo, we have to rebuild the shower but decided to move it to where the useless jacuzzi tub is. And while doing that, we might as well replace the outdated vanities. It won’t be a total gut rehab but close enough.
looking for advice on “do this, don’t do that” stuff.
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alex said on July 11, 2025 at 11:21 am
Icarus, ordinary sheetrock was pretty standard in showers in older homes. In our 1950s house, we’ve done a piecemeal replacement with cement board when the tiles started separating and everything looks good as new. And we did it all ourselves.
We’re putting off doing a full-on remodel because we’re unsure what we’ll be doing in the next few years. We had originally wanted to move into my parents’ home, which is an extravagant money pit that’s been badly neglected. My dad’s 97 and still living in it and could live into his hundreds for all I know, and he’s completely indifferent to its upkeep anymore, which is making it increasingly less appealing.
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Jeff Borden said on July 11, 2025 at 11:54 am
Icarus,
I’d look for quality fixtures from an outlet. We used Studio 44 in Chicago and found first-rate gear at greatly reduced prices. Also, invest in a comfort height toilet. You might not appreciate it now, but you will. Finally, if you have any older guests who regularly visit, quality grab bars are wonderful. We installed them for a visit from my sister, who had ALS, but we’ve come to appreciate them ourselves.
Good luck.
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Julie Robinson said on July 11, 2025 at 12:30 pm
An impermeable shower lining didn’t used to be part of code. Two bathroom remodels, two leaky drywalls behind them. You want to do all the aging-in-place things, because we’re all just one fall away from needing them. Zero entry shower, double the number of grab bars you think you need, tall toilet are so much easier now than retrofitting would be. If there’s no exhaust fan, add it, and get the dual flush toilet too.
Get a vanity with drawers instead of doors and you’ll be amazed at how much you can store and how easy it is to see everything. I personally despise glass shower doors both for how hard it is to keep them clean, and because I’ve known two people who had them shatter. Supposedly it’s shatter proof today, but that’s my two cents.
On a different subject, I’m actually recommending a comic book movie, Superman. Of course it’s too violent for moi, but as a commentary on our country today, it’s not to be missed. Really well done.
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David C said on July 11, 2025 at 12:36 pm
I second no shower doors. Try as you might, you can’t fit them into the washing machine like you can a shower curtain. With a shower curtain, I like the curved curtain rods. The curtain doesn’t seem to attack you like they do with a straight rod.
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Mark P said on July 11, 2025 at 1:27 pm
I second most of what everyone has suggested for bathroom remodeling. I might add, if you’re moving fixtures, try to make sure your plumber knows what they’re doing. Plumbers are notorious for butchering structural members when installing drains. Shifting a drain by a few inches can make all the difference. Ask me how I know.
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Dexter Friend said on July 11, 2025 at 4:06 pm
Last night Lawrence O’Donnell urged his viewers to obtain a passport card if they have no passport book. He did this because now, anybody for no reason can be rounded up and detained for deportation. This means any-body, any of us.
Passport card applications cost $30 + $35 “handling fee” and will take 6-8 weeks to receive, and you need a birth certificate and ID such a driver’s license. The card is a great form of basic ID which may keep Trump/Miller/Patel goons off your backs, and also will get you into Canada, Mexico, and some nearby island nations.
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Deborah Beckett said on July 11, 2025 at 4:14 pm
LB and I redid our tiny bathroom, the vanity mainly, floor tiling, some wiring for the light redo and put in a narrow set of shelves and we did it all ourselves, the demo of the old crappy vanity was one of my favorite parts, took it outside and murdered it with a sledge hammer, such fun. We drove to the IKEA to get the tiny little sink, it was 450 miles away in tempe, AZ. We could have driven to Denver, maybe 25 miles closer but a horrible drive up Interstate 25 which is clogged and scary as you get closer to Denver. The drive to Tempe was beautiful. Unfortunately there are no IKEAs in NM.
Then the original toilet had to be replaced a few years later. We want to have the tub/shower redone next, we won’t be doing that ourselves though.
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Jakash said on July 11, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Ah, it’s like the opposite of doomscrolling here at the ole nn.c since my last visit.
Architecture, cars, home remodeling.
Alex lives “a stone’s throw” from the AC Wermuth house and we live about a half-mile from the factory where the classic bowling machine shown in one of the linked photos was built. Which was in a former Chicago industrial area that’s all townhomes and condos now.
Meanwhile, “The Plymouth Cranbrook, as a car, was conservatively styled, designed to fit K.T. Keller’s notion that cars be practical and allow drivers to sit upright while wearing a hat…” No touch-screens controlling everything in that baby! Did Elon even consider hat aficionados before assailing the public with the CyberTruck? Of course not. 😉
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David C said on July 11, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I can’t say when the last time I saw Elon without a hat on. Well, a cap anyway. He must have had more plugs put in.
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Deborah Beckett said on July 11, 2025 at 7:17 pm
Hey, you’re right David C, Musk is always wearing a cap in his photos.
My husband wore fantastic hats when I first met him, they were beautiful Borsalinos which coincidentally he had gotten in Santa Fe, at the time I had never been to NM. They weren’t western style or anything just classic wool felt, fedoras I think is the name of the style, he had 3 of them, black, gray and brown. He wore them outside in the wintertime and he has always had a nice head of hair so it wasn’t because he was hiding anything. It definitely turned my eye.
Now in NM he wears a flat brimmed style hat, sort of like this https://stetson.com/collections/hats-collections-flat-brim/products/folklore-flat-brim-hat-black but without the band and the feather, his does have a stampede strap. He also has a straw one just like it, natural straw colored for the summer.
In Chicago he got a pork pie hat at a cool hat place but he doesn’t wear it very often because of the wind, a stampede strap would look ridiculous on a pork pie. He looks good in hats and he’s a classy dresser.
I have lots of hats in NM which I wear a lot because of the intense sun here and my bad sun damaged skin caused by my childhood in Miami, I also wear sun screen everyday now. My hats vary in style.
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Deborah Beckett said on July 11, 2025 at 7:25 pm
This is the cool hat place in Chicago, I didn’t want to put a second link in my comment above https://optimo.com/
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Jeff Gill said on July 12, 2025 at 7:11 am
In 2012 I bought an Outdoor Research sun hat in Kanab, Utah at Willow Canyon Outdoor; I hit 50 the year before and realized that summer I just did not have the heat tolerance I once did. Never wore hats (or sunglasses). Now I hardly leave the house without it, at least for six months of the year. This is an updated version of the same one I got then, and I think it had been on the shelf a while when I picked it up, so this may be completely different in construction & wearability:
https://www.outdoorresearch.com/collections/mens-sun-hats/products/helios-sun-hat-243458
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Jakash said on July 12, 2025 at 4:22 pm
Well, if we’re having a hat show-and-tell, I think I may have mentioned it before, but my wife bought me a somewhat darker version of one like this about 20 years ago. I’d have never spent the money (about $50 then, $99 now), but it’s “The Finest in All the World” and says so right inside! 😉 Alas, it does not completely protect me from the sun when it starts coming in a bit sideways, but it’s pretty good and has certainly stood the test of time.
https://www.tilley.com/products/ltm5-airflo-slim-sun-hat?variant=39660999377064
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David C said on July 12, 2025 at 5:35 pm
With all the skin cancer I’ve had removed, I should wear a hat all the time. I only occasionally wear baseball caps to keep the sun out of my eyes when we’re out walking in the early morning or in the evening.
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Deborah said on July 12, 2025 at 6:44 pm
I should say that my husband’s father died from skin cancer when he (the father) was 64, melanoma, so he (my husband) wears a hat and long pants and sleeves all the time outside mainly because of that. But he also wears them because he looks good in them.
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Pam H said on July 12, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Unfortunately, I hit a very sludgy retailer today. Don’t do business with bulbhead dot com because they ship with LaserShip. I think Laser needs to change their name because the negative feedback on Yelp is killing them. When I called bulbhead, I heard the same noise in the background that I heard in the movie, The Bourne Legacy when Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz were running through Manila in the Philippines, horns honking, motor bikes, lots of yelling and talking. And all I wanted was a new pocket hose. Sheesh!
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