Noah Snavely

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Sign says "Big John's Moving" in all caps in a font that looks like the Chicago font common on Macs in the early 1990s.
Excerpt from Perec's Life a User's Manual: Professor Shaw did of course know Jean-Baptiste Rousseau's catalogue, of which the original was inset in his Quarli, and Maurice de Saxe's letter. But he didn't know Beccaria's letter: it made him jump for joy, for the description "sigillated earthenware vase" was, finally, support for the theory he'd always held, but never dared to publish: the Vase in which Joseph of Arimathæa had gathered the Blood of Christ, on the evening of the Passion, had no reason to be made of gold, brass, or bronze, even less cause to be carved from a single emerald stone, but was, quite plainly, earthenware: an ordinary piece of pottery Joseph had bought at the market before going to wash the Wounds of his Saviour. In his enthusiasm Shaw wanted to edit and publish Beccaria's letter, and Sherwood had all the trouble in the world to persuade him not to, promising him he would have the material for an even more sensational article when they found the Vase!
She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of frequency. "That way I can have an already completed reading at hand," Lotaria says, "with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words richest in meaning; they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book."
A screenshot of the NY Philharmonic "Meet the Orchestra" page showing that the Contrabassoon section currently has a vacant position. https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/meet/meet-the-orchestra/section#roster-instrument-22
Charlie Pellett, one of the voices of the NYC subway, after making an announcement on the holiday nostalgia train.