Author Archives: Niall Murphy


In 1981, a 74 year-old Jimmy Stewart, guesting on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, read a poem he’d written about his dog, Beau

Unless you have a heart of flint, you will well up by the end.

No really, you will.

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When illustrator Marlin Peterson was commissioned by the Washington State Artist Trust to create a mural in the city recently, he chose the roof of the Seattle Center Armory (which can be viewed from the nearby Space Needle) and got to work on two huge trompe l’oeil daddy long-legs.

More pix and an explanation of Peterson’s process here.

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