Along For The Ride Funny how some things accompany a person for decades, somehow surviving the moves from state-to-state, apartment-to-apartment, house-to-house, and so on. The humble Koh-I-Noor case above is an example. It and its contents: a few stubby color pencils, a slim green dowel from who-knows-what, and a dried something or other — have been with me
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The Tilley Watch Online, September 26-30, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Evan Lian, Margalit Cutler (an online only contributor at this point), Ellis Rosen, J.A.K., Robert Leighton. Daily Shouts: Julia Wertz, Emily Bernstein. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Donald Dreams Of Declassifying Documents” Sketchbook: Jason Chatfield…
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library In 1915, a decade before The New Yorker Magazine was born, the book you see above, Journeys To Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks, was published by Yale University Press. One hundred-and-forty pages,
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Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original From Attempted Bloggery, July 22, 2022, “Charles Addams: Wednesday’s Grades” — a report on the recent Sotheby’s auction of an original Addams Family drawing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go cheap. ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, July 18-22, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work
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