TFW I am doing the annual cleaning of the windows in the ancestral home of JABberwocky, and I now have to stretch a bit to unlatch the top pane. Feel free to start a pool on when I need the stool.

Lotto? Never heard of the company but this Italian outfitter has a bunch of players wearing this kit, which I find quite attractive, at the US Open tennis qualifying

Did the ghost of my mother just possess Gov Walz? She’s the only other person I know to declare loud and proud that she’d have plenty of time to rest when she was dead. And she’d have loved listening tonight.

Did Frank Capra direct this convention from the grave?

I thought I was really bad on knowing my acronyms, but NY Times columnist Charles Blow writes about last night's DNC "first I learned a new acronyn, FUBAR," and even my acronym recognition isn't that FUBAR.

Snazzy. The Aug 19/26 print issue of PW has a full-page write-up on the WorldCon in Glasgow.

Strange Darling is a really good movie. Too bad no one did any marketing for it. Likely to be on my best of lost for 2024. Deadpool Wolverine was fine. For me and a Marvel movie that’s a rave.

Put another way: Honey Deuce sales alone will cover the prize money paid to men's and women's @USopen champions....(and you wonder why players seek more revenue)....

it takes style… wapo.st/4dJLRkb

The James Daunt of his age He was able to conquer Borders, but floundered without the competition.

Amy Nicholson in the NY Times with a great appreciation of Tom Cruise’s back to back performances in Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia. nytimes.com/2024/08/27/mov…

It's wonderful to see some NY Times love for A. J. Sass - Updates mostly's JUST SHY OF ORDINARY! It really is a fantastic book for students starting a new school this school year, and of course, features A. J.'s wonderful queer kid representation throughout!

“Nice that we’ve got four English speakers in the quarters and semis!” says Brad Gilbert between interviewing Draper and de Minaur, giving one of the less relevant selling points for the men’s draw that I can imagine. #USOpen

Jack Draper? Was he on anyone's bingo card for the US Open semi-final? But I watched him in the quarters on Monday, and there was something about his insouciance in being in a major quarterfinal for the first time that impressed me.

I hope Matt doesn’t mean he spent an hour riding with Agassi from Flushing Meadows to Manhattan, because you can’t ride “back” to a city you never left, and Queens and Flushing Meadows Corona Park are every bit as much New York City as even, sadly, Staten Island.