SUMMER FRIDAYS DEP'T.: Pier review
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 146
Previously in Indignity
ANDY ROONEY 2.0 DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
There Are Not Enough Places to Hang Up Towels in Hotels
This room has two double beds and a twin-sized fold-out bed, capable of sleeping five people, and it came with four sets of towels, hand and bath. And for all those potential hotel visitors and their towels, it offers this one towel bar, plus a single towel peg on the bathroom door.
COLUMN DEP’T.
JOE MACLEOD
MR WRONG: Cool as Ice in an Emergency
Politics is the THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID of Columning, it’s a kneejerk travesty of Thought Leadership! Not here at the Award-Winning Mr. Wrong column though! We go almost Zero Percent Politics as Content, and we go Less Than Zero on Thought AND Leadership! Sub-Zero!
WEATHER REVIEWS
Montreal, August 22, 2024
★★★ The pavement underfoot was dry at last, though the gray clouds still squeezed out a brief drizzle to show they could. One of the two layers of jackets stayed in the hotel closet. The exploratory ride of the metro surfaced, on an immaculate new train, into clear angled light through clouds burst open like a down pillow, jumbled white and grays and pearl. The skyline, vague for days, was something to exclaim over as the train curved away from the island. A deep gray spiral of cloud looped loosely over the heart of downtown. Glory rays and sinister dark shreds trailed down together from the same stretch of sky. The subtly unfamiliar suburban streetscape lay on the entirely recognizable North American landscape. The glory rays kept multiplying till they spanned a meaningful arc from one side of the perpendicular to the other. Out at the terminal station, the sky was generously supplied with blue and the air was cool and light. The wide glass front of the returning train supplied a view of the gently churning river, full of wavering flat spots and ripples looping like fingerprints. Children waved from the front of the train passing the other way.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
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TOM SCOCCA
THOUGHT DEP’T.
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VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS DEP'T.
The plastic fish of the Avalon Fishing Pier, Kill Devil Hills, NC
More consciousness at Instagram.
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from The Swedish, French, American Cook Book, by Mrs. Maria Mathilda Ericsson Hammond, published in 1918, and now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
Celery Sandwiches for Six Persons
Sandwiches au Celeri
Four tablespoons thick mayonnaise dressing, three tablespoons chopped celery, ten slices bread. Cut bread very thin; spread it with mayonnaise dressing; sprinkle with the celery; put two together; cut in triangles; serve on paper doily, one resting on the other.
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.
LESS THAN 5 COPIES LEFT: HMM WEEKLY MINI-ZINE, Subject: GAME SHOW, Joe MacLeod’s account of his Total Experience of a Journey Into Television, expanded from the original published account found here at Hmm Daily. The special MINI ZINE features other viewpoints related to an appearance on, at, and inside the teevee game show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, and is available for purchase at SHOPULA.
