Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people Eventually, inevitably, someone will decide that your well-meaning gesture was a terrible error.

As promised/threatened:

fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-namin...

Back in 2003 when I had the good fortune of working on this series, Wiseman's career was already monumental, and that was before he made another dozen movies.
bampfa.org/program/fred...
(A website "upgrade" left this archived page in ruins but I'm sharing anyway in a moment of nostalgic weakness)

Can't stop thinking about the two words my grandparents used over and over to describe the German forces in Vienna in spring 1938: “lächerlich” and “teuflisch.” Laughable and diabolical. Ridiculous and fiendish.

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Official Audio) YouTube video by The Kinks

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"

Chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

youtu.be/2dbEZIq-LkI?...

Here Comes the Summer YouTube video by The Undertones - Topic

Day 13: Summer #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Undertones, "Here Comes the Summer"

youtu.be/UYZzFUzwoV8?...

Shocking Blue - Venus (Official Video) YouTube video by Music Videos

Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Shocking Blue, "Venus"
I'm your venus, I'm your fire

youtu.be/aPEhQugz-Ew?...

Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) YouTube video by Bob Wills - Topic

Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer"
Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

youtu.be/KZBVAGBYPos?...

The Clean - Anything Could Happen YouTube video by Flying Nun Records

Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Clean, "Anything Could Happen"

youtu.be/7tf1wzg4rdE?...

A sign in a child's handwriting, advertising catsitting services: "we don't care if your cat is grumpy and eny kind of cat is fine"

Local advertising

Syd Barrett /Pink Floyd -"Apples & Oranges YouTube video by HDPinkFloyd

Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Pink Floyd, "Apples and Oranges"

youtu.be/Vymc2lD701E?...

Billie Holiday - All of Me (Official Audio) YouTube video by BillieHolidayVEVO

Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Billie Holiday, "All of Me"
You took the best, so why not take the rest?

youtu.be/5J18k5Sx3Dw?...

It's A Big Country YouTube video by Davitt Sigerson - Topic

Day 7: Country #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Davitt Sigerson, "It's a Big Country"

youtu.be/cu7MMTJgONc?...

Zombies - Friends Of Mine YouTube video by happening45

Day 6: Mine #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Zombies, "Friends of Mine"

youtu.be/w4rWROFJQPQ?...

(I know the Chantels version has already been posted, but this is the one that sticks in my head!)

Maybe YouTube video by The Shangri-Las - Topic

Day 5: Maybe #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Shangri-Las, "Maybe"
youtu.be/UKoP8FHY-B0?...

Run Rabbit Run YouTube video by Flanagan & Allen - Topic

Day 4: Run #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Flanagan & Allen, "Run, Rabbit, Run"

youtu.be/SE7-VdCkRDY?...

Take A Swing YouTube video by Scrawl - Topic

Day 3: Fist #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Scrawl, "Take a Swing"

You’re talking big
So you can save face
Show me your fists
Put me in my place

youtu.be/XYQrcQB4ek4?...

Al Green - Take Me To The River (Official Audio) YouTube video by Al Green

Day 2: River #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Al Green, "Take Me to the River"
youtu.be/9FBUgdhxe9M?...

I Believe in Nothing YouTube video by The Happenings - Topic

Day 1: Nothing #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Happenings, "I Believe in Nothing"
Perhaps tomorrow I'll believe in something . . .
youtu.be/4D1NP4YG7i4?...

@pseudopodium.bsky.social and I did this recently and can agree it's apropos

Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth

Badge from A F of L Local 681, Welders & Burners, 1942

Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day

"Fury [sic] friends are welcome on the patio, if leashed & well-behaved!"

Welcome, fury friends!

Cat: What makes a life worthwhile? Girl: Improving OTHER lives. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working for other lives' comfort. Working for other lives' meaning Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to allow other lives to DETERMINE and ESTABLISH their own dignity. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to make the world a BETTER PLACE for ALL people and animals and plants and minerals Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Holding back the HOWLING VOID Cat: Still sounds like a ponzi scheme Girl: We just need to find the next sucker

Eight years ago, continued
"Triangle of Life"

Song For Brian YouTube video by Cindy Lee Berryhill - Topic

youtu.be/YuDv6Y_3v6s?...

Getting Rid of What's Buggin' You (Unless It's an Unplanned Pregnancy), Chillicothe, MO

Screen shot of a call to action from the Guardian newspaper: "Sign up for the Overwhelm newsletter"

Thanks, my inbox was sorely lacking in overwhelm

Sunday evening in line at the Trader Joe's near the college campus. Van Halen comes on the sound system.
Student 1: I kinda like this, what is it?
Student 2: I think Nirvana?

Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod

Christmas Holiday 1944 YouTube video by Screamin Munkee

I love to imagine unprepared moviegoers going to see a Christmas movie starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly and finding themselves trapped in this sordid hallucination.
youtu.be/sBVWLwwkt3I?...