Getty Image Roundup: The end is nigh
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 193
PHOTO FINISH DEP'T.
October Is Over and Our Monthly Image Bounty Says It's Time to Be Finished With Things
TOMORROW IS ELECTION Day, we're almost done, it's almost done, everything's almost done, it's the end, it's the beginning of the end, it's the beginning of the beginning of the end.
And it is, once again, time to share with you, the readers and particularly the paid subscribers, our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup. To provide you with a properly illustrated full-service publication, Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty's wide selection of topical and newsworthy photographs and illustrations. And to make sure all of us get our money's worth, at the end of each month, Indignity delivers a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.
In light of our being on the eve of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the end, Indignity presents our October photographic theme: FINISH LINE.
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, November 3, 2024
★★★★ The yellow light behind the closed blinds spoke of no identifiable hour. The cold seeped through the window so strongly it was necessary to check top and bottom to make sure neither sash was open a crack. A flannel shirt came out of dormancy on its hanger, and the jacket and hoodie that had been taking turns went on together as layers. Contrails cut across the sky in various directions and at various stages of diffusion. People in cloth coats were walking up the Central Park West sidewalk carrying posterboard cheering signs from the marathon. A family exclaimed at how foul the drop zone of the ginkgo on the path to the Pool smelled. A host of birds, heavy on grackles, came rattling and clattering and croaking down through the brush and trees toward the water. A passing woman with a wheeled walker doubled back to share the word that from the opposite shore, the light off the trees was reflecting spectacularly on the water. She hadn't oversold it: colors quaked on the water as mallards screamed. If the foliage was more sparse than before, it was still intense; the last tiny leaves high up in the top of a black tupelo were furious red in the expanse of gnarled bare branches. A knot of green-winged teals dabbled in the shallows, making the mirrored water ripple like mercury. On the way up the Great Hill a side field was walled in by brilliance, with even the dullest brown leaves joining in. An elm, more than half bare, stood decked in Klimt spangles. A blue jay landed near a cardinal, two more spots of primary color overhead. Huge wasps' nests hung exposed. A red-bellied woodpecker called from the trees, and the lawn was covered with juncos calmly browsing among the oak leaves, as if they'd been living there all along.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast.
Tom Scocca
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TOM SCOCCA
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Benson Woman's Club Cook Book, Containing Over Four Hundred Of Our Own And Our Friends' Choice Recipes, collected and compiled by Benson Woman's Club, published in 1915, now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
CHEESE FILLING FOR SANDWICHES.
Melt slowly together 1/2 pound cheese, 1 lump butter and 1 tablespoon milk. Mix together 1 egg, pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon mustard. Add to above ingredients, and season with 1 tablespoon vinegar added last.
—Mrs. G. H. Tuttle.
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.
MARKETING DEP'T.
We are down to FIVE REMAINING COPIES of the second printing of 19 Folktales, still available for gift-giving and personal perusal! The daylight is vanishing and so are these stories!
