Sunday, October 11, 2026

Why Hitchcock didn't shoot the "North by Northwest" crop duster scene in a Montana cornfield


Screengrab and headline:  Cowboy State Daily, 10/9/2026

Mark Heinz reports:
As many as seven grizzlies can be seen fleeing every which way as the noisy farm implement rumbles in, apparently disrupting their corn feast. 
One of the bears turns and starts running back toward the combine. But then it cuts back toward the corn, as if trying to run and hide, before changing its mind and turning tail again. 
While the video might seem completely crazy to outsiders, it depicts what’s increasingly looking like just another day in the area, local saddle maker Sparky Wallace told Cowboy State Daily. 
Asked if the incident in the video surprised him, Wallace’s response was instant. 
“Oh, heavens no. Heavens no,” he said.

As you correctly guessed, there is no plan behind Trump's dyed diesel executive order

 
Graph:  Macrotrends
Headline:  Tennessee Lookout, 10/9/2026

Cassandra Stephenson reports:
The pause in enforcement is meant to help some diesel fuel users save money at the pump amid record-high diesel prices that economists attribute mostly to the United States’ war in Iran. In Tennessee, untaxed dyed diesel costs around 51 cents less per gallon than regular diesel. 
But the details of how this relief will work in practice are hazy, including who is eligible to purchase and use dyed diesel on public roads, whether taxes on the fuel will ultimately be due at a later date, and what reporting requirements will be involved. 
Trump’s executive order instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to determine which taxpayers are covered and any conditions on the tax relief and “explore” potential ways to forgive the tax. The Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue implementation guidance. 
“The executive order provides for temporary penalty relief and potential tax deferral; it does not necessarily eliminate the underlying tax obligations,” Tennessee Trucking Association President and CEO Donna England wrote in an email to the Lookout on Thursday. [emphasis added]

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Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Anne Carson, 2026 Nobel Prize winner in Literature

 
Time for some collection development!

The Guardian, 10/8/2026

Emma Loffhagen and Leyland Cecco report:

Born in Toronto in 1950, Carson is known for work that moves freely between poetry, prose and translation, drawing heavily on the literature and mythology of the ancient Greek world. She has been a professor of classics at various institutions including Princeton, New York University and McGill University in Montreal. She is the 19th woman to win, out of 123 literature laureates. 
Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was published in 1986 and combined literary criticism with an exploration of desire and the ancient Greek tradition. 
Her best-known work is Autobiography of Red, a 1998 novel in verse inspired by the fragments of the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus. It reimagines the myth of Geryon, the red-winged monster killed by Herakles, as the story of a modern teenage boy navigating heartbreak and desire. 
In 2001, she became the first woman to win the TS Eliot prize, for her collection The Beauty of the Husband. She has also been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.



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Footprint in place for new Culver's in Middleton WIsconsin

 
New location at 3112 Parmenter Street
Photos by Retiring Guy



Current location at 2906 Parmenter Street


Renderings




The Middleton Culver’s at 2906 Parmenter St. may move to nearby 3112 Parmenter St. in the old Fitzgerald’s supper club, which closed in 2017. 
The price co-founder Craig Culver is offering is $4 million, twice the property’s market rate, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. 
The site was chosen due to better accessibility and traffic flow. The fast-food chain has proposed a dual drive-thru. 
To operate, the proposed Culver’s will have to go through a site plan review, which will take about two months, and Culver’s will need a conditional use permit for the drive-thru. 
The city of Middleton has also begun a traffic impact analysis for the site plan. Culver’s has operated in Middleton since 1992, but has deemed its current space to be too small.

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