You'll Think of Kermit When You Hear Him Say Help

My friend Noah told me about this early Jim Henson video and I thought you would enjoy it. Notice the cars when Jim Henson crosses the street. American cars used to be cool.

So, why does he paint an elephant?

Where May I Cash This?

I've always thought our bills should be updated...

Raffled Hair

Watch out, y'all! There's an anagram maker! What do you get when you type in your name? When I graduated from Columbia, Lucie Brock-Broido and Richard Howard used to make anagrams from all the students' names. I don't have an L in my name, but who cares?

Speaking of raffled, I've always been a little smitten by words that end -led. As though those words are led to something or by something. Baffled, led by confusion or baff. Tousled. Crumpled.

List: Poetry Books With the Author on the Front or Spine

• Collected Poems by James Merrill
• Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
• T.S. Elliot Collected Poems
• H.D. Collected Poems
• W.H. Auden Selected Poems
• The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley
• Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
• Selected Verse by Frederico Garcia Lorca
• Selected Poems and Three Plays by William Butler Yeats
• The Poems of Marianne Moore
• Robert Frost Collected Poems
• Robert Lowell Selected Poems
• Jorge Luis Borges Selected Poems
• Opus Posthumous by Wallace Stevens

In General, with a poet on the front or spine:

• Poet Be Like God by Ellingham and Killian
• The Journals of Sylvia Plath
• The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt
• A Helen Adam Reader by Kristin Prevallet
• Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews with Allen Ginsberg
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke