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Illustrations by Miki LoweEdward Hirsch didn’t always write poetry for a living. He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman, a garbage man; he’s worked in a chemical plant and in a box factory. “You never forget,” he once told an interviewer, “what it means to punch a clock.” Perhaps for that reason, he’s written frequently about labor: the quiet dignity of getting something done, the sense of purpose that pulls many of us out of bed each morning, the way that even straightforward little tasks can structure one’s days—one’s life. Work is strangely absent from much of contemporary poetry, he said in 2018, despite the fact that “most people’s lives are consumed by their jobs.” His corpus is something of a corrective.In “The Custodian,” a synagogue’s janitor performs his humble duties: dusting off scrolls, folding tallises, turning out the lights. The chores are mundane, but he does them respectfully and thoroughly—and in that sense he contributes to the congregants’ sacred experience. A shomer—a keeper or guard—is an important role in Judaism, one that might involve staying with a body until its burial, or ensuring that the ingredients used in a kitchen are kosher. It’s not so different from the more general meaning of custodian: a person who looks after something. What’s really holy, Hirsch seems to imply, is not just a synagogue’s glittering stained glass or the imposing notes of the organ, or even the words of the prayers. It’s all the small acts of care that people carry out every day—simply because, as Hirsch once wrote in another poem, “that’s the job.”By the time he wrote this poem, Hirsch had long ago quit his manual-labor gigs. He was versed in Jewish custom. So if we’re to read it autobiographically, why does he say he’s lived his “whole life” like the janitor? I wonder if it has something to do with Hirsch’s vocation. As a writer, he is fundamentally an observer, attempting to record or interpret experiences from a remove. A custodian, too, operates at a distance; to keep watch over something, you have to stand apart from it. But both of these laborers brush up against something transcendent, even if only briefly. For the janitor, it’s the temple’s song and ritual and faith; for Hirsch, perhaps, they’re the flashes of beauty or fragments of truth that he may not be able to fully capture or even fully understand—but can try to document, and thus protect. Neither undertaking involves much glory; each is just an honest effort made anew each day. That’s why both are profound.— Faith HillYou can zoom in on the page here.

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If you weren’t aware that Martin Short was hosting Saturday Night Live last night, you might have had a difficult time figuring that out. It’s not that Short wasn’t in sketches—he was, using his natural flair for showmanship as he sang about getting medicated for the holidays. It’s just that a lot of other celebrities were also there. Lots and lots of them: Melissa McCarthy, Tom Hanks, Kristen Wiig, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd.The evening felt like SNL flexing its muscles as it heads into its 50th anniversary celebration in February, a testament to its might as an entertainment superpower—and the episode capped a fall season during which guest spots have grown from fun cameos to essential elements of the show. Yet this episode’s glut also felt like a criminal underuse of Short, who, after all these years, still gets relegated to sidekick status.The cold open set the tone. It began with Hanks sitting regally in a robe and explaining the concept of the show’s “five-timers club,” the somewhat hollow honor that is bestowed (along with a robe emblazoned with the number 5) on those who have hosted five times. After Rudd joined Hanks, Short arrived on the clubroom set to cheers, but the applause for his big moment was quickly drowned out by hosannas for the parade of others that followed. In addition to the aforementioned stars came Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Emma Stone, John Mulaney, and Jimmy Fallon.The sketch emphasized just how much the current iteration of SNL relies on famous faces. Fey turned to Short and said, “First things first, we need to make sure you’re really ready to be a five-timer. Quick: Name three current cast members.” Short paused and then shot off the correct answer: “No idea.”That self-lacerating gag turned out to be more than a punch line for the episode. Sure, a couple of cast members had breakthrough moments—Bowen Yang killed on “Weekend Update” playing a sassy drone; Marcello Hernandez reprised his fast-talking Sábado Gigante host Don Francisco—but through the night the cameos (such as Rudd playing the Spanish-language game show’s bewildered English-speaking guest) were what sustained the sketches’ momentum.For another example, just when you thought “Parking Lot Altercation,” in which Short and Mikey Day played Christmas shoppers warring about a parking spot with over-the-top miming gestures, was wearing thin, McCarthy appeared as Short’s aggressive wife. Wearing a wig with a Kate Gosselin haircut, she spit what appeared to be iced coffee on Day’s car window and rubbed her breasts in the residue. Chloe Fineman, playing Day’s bratty daughter, couldn’t help but break.[Read: Even SNL is all about the vibes]Later, “Christmas Airport Parade” was just that: a procession of special guests. Yang and Ego Nwodim played enthusiastic TSA agents introducing all of the oddball characters who populate Newark airport during the holidays, but the biggest audience whoops came when Rudd showed up as himself, McCarthy played a gate agent who lewdly mispronounced passenger names, and Hanks reprised his role from Clint Eastwood’s Sully as the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Clever observations about how people behave while traveling were overshadowed by the blinding lights of Hollywood.Even “Weekend Update” benefited from the added star power. Michael Che and Colin Jost’s annual ritual of mutual humiliation, in which each co-host reads jokes the other one wrote sight unseen, was amped up with reaction shots from Jost’s famous wife, Johansson, who watched in horror from backstage as Che made him recite jokes at the couple’s expense in a corny “Black voice.”SNL has been relying on cast alumni and high-wattage friends of the show a lot this season. Election coverage brought out Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg as Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, respectively. And Dana Carvey can’t seem to leave the studio, even though the series isn’t relying on his Joe Biden impression anymore. He was there last night, too, just being wacky in the Sábado Gigante sketch.On one hand, this celebrity cornucopia feels a little lazy. Rudd and Johansson get automatic cheers that can sub in for earned laughter or applause. On the other, bringing them all out is smart business, serving as a reminder of the show’s brand loyalty and staying power in the run-up to a banner year it hopes can also translate to big-time ratings.And yet the overuse of this crutch was frustrating last night, most of all because Short suffered for it. In the final sketch of the night, “Peanuts Christmas,” he played a flamboyant director who had no time for the goofy dancing of Charles M. Schulz’s characters. It was a late reminder of Short’s irrepressible dynamism on stage. Short and Yang made a great team shaming the Peanuts children. If only we had gotten to see more of that.

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ESA / Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. KeelDay 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. From this point of view, we see the galaxy’s disk as a sharp line through space, overlaid with a prominent dust lane. One can see the lights of some active star-forming regions in the arms, shining out from behind the dust. Strikingly, we can also see that the center of the galaxy sports a glowing, almost egg-shaped “bulge,” rising far above and below the disk. The unusually large size of this bulge compared with the galaxy’s disk is possibly thanks to UGC 10043 siphoning material from a nearby dwarf galaxy.See the full advent calendar here, where a new image will be revealed each day until December 25.

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