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 Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker One’s 97th birthday doesn’t come around every day, so this week’s issue (a double) is indeedy-do a special occasion. Rea Irvin, The New Yorker’s first art supervisor (some refer to him as its first editor, but I’m sticking with
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this
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Latest ToonStack: “Weatherin’ The Storm” ToonStack is a weekly “newsletter” of themed cartoons. This week’s weather-proof material comes to us courtesy of Hilary Campbell, Ellis Rosen, Sofia Warren, Johnny DiNapoli, Madeline Horwath, Navied Mahdavian, Amy Kurzweil, and J.A.K.. _______________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 19-23, 2021 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to
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