Jonathan Taylor writes:
I’ve bought the New York Film Festival ticket I want, I’m listening to “Bal de Dimanche Apres Midi” streaming from KRVS in Lafayette, La. (the French-speaker next to me on the sofa “can’t understand a word”), on the day after Emily’s birthday—here are some New Yorker–related links:

• “Repetition is funny.” “Neither rodent is presently using the wheel.” P.L. Frederick takes the time to break down the visual touches that make New Yorker cartoons funny (the funny ones, that is). And in her hands, it takes no time at all.
• Only an affectionate reader could rustle up this snark about Judith Thurman’s Critic at Large on Amelia Earhart. (Lindsay Robertson also has “further reading” for everyone ensorcelled by the David Grann death penalty piece.)
• The Times wonders how Derek Jeter would stack up against Lou Gehrig as profiled in The New Yorker in 1929. Plus, more of Gehrig’s magazine appearances, courtesy of New Yorker librarian Jon Michaud.
• Via Andrew Sullivan, Charles Murray, of all people, sets himself straight about the infamous line falsely attributed to Pauline Kael about Nixon’s 1972 victory. Kael also figures in the Times‘s proper appreciation of Andrew Sarris.
• Not a New Yorker link, but, speaking of the radio: everything you needed to know about radio station call letters’ begining in K or W.