Michael Blowhard writes:

Dear Blowhards --

* The Man Who Is Thursday finds the distinction between the creative and the interpretive artist helpful. I seldom do myself, but I enjoyed the case he makes.

* James Kunstler's "Eyesore of the Month" is a grim pleasure. What I'm worrying about today, though, is whether Kunstler's Sad New World will arrive before or after my own demise.

* Andrew Cusack tells the tale of Manhattan's 71st Regiment armory, a glorious pile now replaced by a blankfaced Modernist atrocity.

* Emily Yoffe tells what it's like to go on the live-forever calorie-restriction diet.

* The American Society of Magazine Editors picks the 40 best magazine covers of the last 40 years. There are certainly some classics among them.

* So maybe some snowflakes are alike after all??

* Is that how Denise has managed to keep her figure?

Best,

Michael

Those are some memorable mag covers! That National Geographic cover feels like it was just out yesterday---I don't pay that much attention to that magazine, and yet that particular cover seems to have been everywhere and caught everyone's attention! Also, the cover of either Life or Time---with the blindfolded American soldier in Viet Nam---I would imagine at the time it was quite a powerful image, particularly given the status of those magazines in the sixties. And those Harper's Bazaar covers---fabulous.

Posted by: annette on February 12, 2007 9:39 AM






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