September 26, 2024 : Wondercab Mini (76A)

Another Entry from the Krulwich Sampler

As you may remember from our last Mini-Cabinet, we will occasionally be salting our pages across the coming months with a selection of instances of our heterodox pal Robert Krulwich’s recent collaborations with a whole range of animators, this one being an especially sweet one, from several years back, as it happens, working with Chris Ware under the auspices of Ira Glass and This American Life on a tale of marriage and memory.

Link here.

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Commonplace Book

Garrison Keillor on immigrants and the coming election

From his invaluable, invariably sane, ongoing Substack Column.

Sept 20, 2024

We grow wise with the years: this is the theory. This year, the Year of Our Lord 2024, I suggest that you not vote for a person who is angry and saying lunatic things detached from reality and promising apocalyptic times to come. That is not for America. God has blessed this country lavishly. Brilliant immigrants have come for freedom from the fevers of Europe and the grinding poverty of leftover colonial empires, and their ingenuity and spirit and wit and their adoration of this New World have enriched us each and every one. Diversity, schmiversity, we simply are a diverse and fascinating assemblage of wonders and oddities, dreamers and floaters, 4H-ers, bellyachers, Unitarians, contrarians, librarians, egalitarians, and Wagnerians — a person walks through town and never lacks for entertainment. God bless America. He has done so before. We need it now.

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See you next week!