SUMMER FRIDAYS DEP'T.: The water's fine!
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 130
TWEET DEP'T.
Previously, on INDIGNITY
DISPOSSESSIONS DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
But I just bought a new pair of white sneakers, a pair of variant Chuck Taylors with gum-colored soles, because I acknowledged that my everyday off-white Chuck Taylors had gotten beat up, and the gum-soled ones were on sale for cheap. The older off-white shoes had once represented newness and possibility, or to be more precise, they had replaced an identical pair that had represented newness and possibility but had been prematurely ruined. Now they were being demoted.
REVIEW DEP'T.
JOE MACLEOD
Superman looks bright, like freshly-printed comic book, and it is one of the most comic book-y movies ever made, without trying to break stuff into panels and use giant words on the screen for sound effects, this thing is turning its own pages and not stopping for us to catch up and figure anything out as it zooms along. It’s rated PG-13 for slam-bang violence and some bad words (but not the F-word), and it’s not three fucking hours long, the running time is 2 hours and 9 minutes, what a relief.
LOST & FOUND DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
A Colt M4 rifle and 5 30-round clips (in a hardshell case on the street in Lennox, California, by a passerby, after a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff reported having lost the weapon)
COLUMN DEP'T.
JOE MACLEOD
Heretics say one cannot petition THE LORD with prayer, but in the Full Faith and Credit of The United States of America, we do so, as we pray for Public Television, and the funding thereof, which is, even as we speak these words of supplication, being threatened with nonexistence in the aforementioned and debased Halls of Power. We pray for the immortal souls of Cookie Monster, Grover, and the blessed Elmo, unless they already got bought by Home Box or Uncle Disney. Look, I don’t keep up with the Entertainment News because I am too immersed in my Prayers, OK? Amen again!
WEATHER REVIEWS
Bethany Beach, Delaware, to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to New York City, July 17, 2025
★★★ The atmosphere hit like a smack in the face on the first step of the short walk from the air conditioning to the car. Ospreys and vultures rode the hot air; cormorants knifed through it; parasails billowed to the bay side of the highway through the state park. Petite cumuli dotted the sky over the fields. Further on they were tipped and tapered, like a pod of sperm whales swimming upward and eastward. Behind them were contrails as parallel as ruled paper. Little cloud shadows lay on the Delaware River. The clouds got denser until on the roadway of the Turnpike there were fleeting bits of sun amid general shade, then loosened again. A hot wind from the Ikea parking lot sent a mostly unburned cigarette rolling along the sidewalk toward the store's exit. Manhattan looked drab on first sighting under its own patch of cloud, and then the sun found it and it was vivid again. Seed globes of spinifex tumbled around on an exit ramp. Weeds swung back and forth in unison beside the stuck traffic trying to make the Lincoln Tunnel. Out in the streets of the city the air moved in currents of warmer and warmest, but the light was filtered honey.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
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TOM SCOCCA
ADVICE DEP'T.
HEY! DO YOU like advice columns? They don't happen unless you send in some letters! Surely you have something you want to justify to yourself, or to the world at large. Now is the perfect time to share it with everyone else through The Sophist, the columnist who is not here to correct you, but to tell you why you're right. Direct your questions to The Sophist, at indignity@indignity.net, and get the answers you want.
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Encyclopedia of Cookery; 1001 Recipes, Menus & Rules for Modern, Scientific and Economic Cookery (Vol. 4), by Eugene Christian and Molly Griswold Christian, published by the Corrective Eating Society in 1920, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
CELERY AND NUT SANDWICH
Wash, scrape, and chop the celery very fine. To this add a few grated or chopped nuts, then add sufficient mayonnaise dressing to make a thick paste. Spread this between the buttered bread. Press firmly together and cut crosswise.
NUT AND MARMALADE SANDWICH
Mix thoroughly half a cake of Neufchatel cheese with one tablespoon of orange marmalade and two tablespoons of grated nuts. Spread between slices of buttered whole wheat bread.
CHEESE AND TOMATO SANDWICH
Slice the bread and spread with melted butter or mayonnaise dressing, then place a slice of tomato and on the tomato a bit of grated cheese, press the sandwich firmly together and cut in half.
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 .
SELF-SERVING SELF-PROMOTION DEP'T.
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