Fun Friday Resources

The National Gallery of Art has a lovely online exhibit, Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World. The work of illustrators of the last couple of centuries is sampled, and the detail of each is worth your admiration.

Here’s an actually useful and free website: Free Book Cover Mockups. It does what it says. You choose your mockup, give it a front cover and a spine, et voilà:

Young person’s guide to Lichtenbergianism, available at your non-mega bookstores everywhere.

Matthew Siu’s Pathfinder is interesting: It will do a kind of six-degrees-of-separation thing with any two words you give it. I gave it labyrinth and spirituality, and this is what it came up with:

Not bad. What if we…

Oh. Oh my.

I know I shouldn’t be surprised; Lichtenbergianism has been around since 2007 and in published form since 2017, so of course the term and what it means it out there on the intertubes to be scraped up and used along with the works of Shakespeare and Mozart, but still… Kind of makes me proud that they mostly got it right.

Oh look…

Straight from Lichtenbergianism to Literary Genius. There you have it, folks — the intertubes do not lie, and as Prof. Peter Schickele always said, “Truth is just truth; you can’t have opinions about truth.

Finally, here’s a fun read about everyone’s favorite WASTE BOOKS, “How Field Notes went from a side project to a cult notebook.”