Indignity Getty Image Roundup for September 2024
FALL CLASSIC DEP'T.
Deck Full of Jokers
WE HAVE REACHED—in only 30 days!—the end of another month here at Indignity. The children are all back in school, the hurricane-season sogginess has paused briefly to allow a little chill into the air, and the long regular season of baseball is giving way to the long postseason.
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 honor of the equivocal 2024 success and ongoing opportunities of Indignity's beloved Baltimore Orioles—who finished second in the American League East with 91 wins this year, after finishing in first with 101 wins last year—Indignity presents our September photographic theme: WILD CARD.
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WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, September 29, 2024
[No stars] The light when the alarm went off at quarter to 9 could have been the weekday light in the 6 o'clock hour. The groceries arrived with standing water in the bottoms of the bags and the cardboard box on the tomatoes gone half liquid. The older boy went out to get batteries and came back soaked ot the skin. A line of showers on the map in the weather app sat there oozing in place as the rain gurgled on and on outside. The sight of a sunlit ballgame on video from the Upper Midwest was as baffling as an interplanetary transmission.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast.
Tom Scocca
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TOM SCOCCA
VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS DEP'T.
Art Exhibit, continued
More consciousness at Instagram.
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from 250 Meatless Menus And Recipes To Meet The Requirements Of People Under The Varying Conditions Of Age, Climate And Work, by Eugene Christian and Mollie Griswold Christian, published in 1910, and now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
HERRING OR ANCHOVY SANDWICHES
Wash, skin, and remove bones, chop fine with a few tender celery hearts or endive. Spread unfired wafers or O. B. Oilman's "wheat crispies" with sweet butter and place fish and celery between. Press firmly together and serve.
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.
Supplies are really and truly running low of the second printing of 19 FOLK TALES, still available for gift-giving and personal perusal! Sit in the crushing heat with a breezy collection of stories, each of which is concise enough to read before the thunderstorms start.
A Word from FLAMING HYDRA: The SWAG Fundraiser and ARCHIVE PROJECT
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This collection of top-shelf pieces from The Awl, edited by Carrie Frye and published and produced by Flaming Hydra in consultation with The Awl’s original editors and contributors, will also include ALL NEW commentary and original essays from contributors and readers.
