Happy Magaversary, The Atlantic!

The Atlantic Magazine's first cover. Before they had celebrities and cartoonists.

The Atlantic Magazine's first cover. Before they had celebrities and cartoonists.

Congratulations! I’m reasonably sure that’s rival Lewis Lapham on the cover of the very first Atlantic.

via InOtherNews

The Dead: a videopoem

This is from Billy Collins, former US poet laureate, although of course the queen of the videopoem medium is Heather Haley, the Siren of Howe Sound.

The dead are always looking down on us, they say, while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats, of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity. They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth, And when we lie down in a field or on a couch, Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon, They think we are looking back at them, which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.

The Harry Potter Excitement Graph

Where are you right now on the Harry Potter graph?

Where are you right now on the Harry Potter graph?

And now that she’s admitted she’s not ruling out new HP books, this once more becomes relevant.

Pencil this in

pencil crayon wall hanging

pencil crayon tapestry

Something tells me something like this will feature prominently in John Cusack’s next movie. In the meantime, I want one myself.

Francis Bacon: new portrait revealed

francis bacon

Francis Bacon, geddit?

Please tell me you get it.