GOOD AFTERNOON! Memorial Day Weekend has come and gone, the air conditioners are running, and the daylight is on its way to its annual maximum. What are you doing with those long, bright hours? Here at Indignity, your bootstrapping, fun-deremployed newsletter staff is borrowing a tradition from the easeful, better funded past of the writing trade (and more professional professions), by launching our SUMMER FRIDAYS.
From now through Labor Day, unless there is urgent breaking news or commentary that cannot wait, your Friday edition of the Indignity newsletter will be a light spritz of material: the Indignity Morning Podcast, a review of Thursday's weather, possibly an antique sandwich. We will aim to deliver it early, so that our readers may head out into the wide, warm afternoon and evening secure in the knowledge that you have received the week's allotment of Indignity.
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WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, June 1, 2023
★★★ The heat was fine for sitting still in, out on the balcony with a cup of tea, or for pausing on the stoop. Moving through it, though, meant it put up resistance. Down in the subway, though, it was as cool as yesterday. Windows on a cross street cast a row of blobs of light, no two alike. Swings hung motionless and empty, swingset after swingset, save for one bucketlike seat with a toddler in it in the shade. Robins raised a clamor on all sides. The little dead snake, or maybe a new little dead snake, was so dry and flat it no longer lay flush on the pavement but was tipped stiffly up from it a little. A man in a metallic jacket sat on top of a rock in the shade of shrubbery, looking like a previously unnoticed piece of statuary till he reached down and peeled off one shoe. A tiger swallowtail fluttered among the irises by Morningside Pond. The egret was back, stalking step by step through the shallow water, plumes trailing in the murky green.
ALTHOUGH INDIGNITY IS no longer funded by the Substack Pro program, Substack has agreed to provide us access to tens of thousands of images from the vast Getty Images archive. It would be an act of fiscal irresponsibility not to present the readers and financial supporters of Indignity with timely displays from this wealth of photographs and art, so in keeping with the announcement in today’s BUSINESS DEP’T., we have invoked the Getty Images search algorithm and invite you to an exploration of this month’s thematic visual topic: VACATION.
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WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS for the assembly of sandwiches from One Thousand Favorite Recipes, by Seattle, Washington’s Congregation Temple de Hirsch, Ladies' Auxiliary, compiled by Mrs. Sigismund Aronson and Mrs. William Gottstein, published in 1908, found in the public domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
PIMOLASANDWICHES. Chop the contents of a fifteen cent bottle of stuffed olives or pimolas. Chop two hard boiled eggs. Mix the foregoing with mayonnaise sauce and a little salt. Spread on buttered bread. —MRS. A. COBLENTZ.
PIMENTO SANDWICH. Chop pimentoes, olives and celery, mix with mayonnaise and spread on lettuce leaf, and then put between slices of buttered white bread. —MRS. S. ARONSON.
CAVIAR AND SALMON SANDWICH. Take a piece of rye bread, cut round (with biscuit cutter) ; spread with mustard; put some caviar in center of the bread, strips of smoked salmon around the caviar, and strips of pickle around the salmon. —MRS. E. MICHAEL, Spokane.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, kindly send a picture to us at indignity@indignity.net.
