Getty Image Roundup: Happy New Year
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 18
BUSINESS DEP'T.
Another New Year, Another Collection of Licensed Photographs and Illustrations
Today brings the new Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, despite the holiday's place two and a half weeks ahead of "Midwinter Recess" on the New York City public school calendar. Seeing as the occasion coincides with the end of another Gregorian calendar month—close enough to it, anyway—today we share with you, the subscribers and the paid subscribers of Indignity, the remaining bounty of our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup.
Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty’s vast selection of topical and newsworthy photographs. To make sure all of us get our money’s worth, at the end of each month, Indignity prepares a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.
Here we are, dressed in a drab but inherently festive shade of red, and we're happy to have you, the readers, along with us. Thanks for reading and looking at Indignity, and for (some of you) supporting us with your hard-earned dollars. In honor of the turn of the animal zodiac, here is our January/New Year photographic theme: SNAKE.
Thank you for reading the Indignity Getty Image Roundup, or at least looking at the pictures. We are ever grateful for your continued interest and support.
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WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, January 28, 2025
★★★ Sounds of things happening outdoors came through the partly open windows; the long-confined aural space unsealed and expanded and came alive. Banked clouds lay along the horizon in every visible direction but overhead was blue with a few little white scraps. A huge hank of green tinsel, twisted on a street tree for some reason, heaved and glittered. People hanging out on the sidewalk made small talk with passersby, while the sparrows inside the corner bush kept jabbering among themselves. Dissolving contrails, crossing the cloud grain, left a faint argyle pattern on the afternoon sky.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast.
Tom Scocca
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TOM SCOCCA
ADVICE DEP'T.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of sandwiches selected from 500 Tested Recipes issued by The Members of the Women's Institutes of Stanstead County, Quebec, Canada, published in 1924 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
CHEESE SANDWICHES
1 egg boiled hard
1/4 lb. cheese grated
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon mustard
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon vinegar
With a spoon mash the yolk of the egg, add butter and mix smooth, then add salt, pepper, sugar, mustard, and grated cheese, mixing each well. Add vinegar; if vinegar is not relished use cold water.
—Margaret J. Whitcomb, Hatley.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
