The Monday Tilley Watch

              The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker.   Are these the dog days of summer? According to Wikipedia, Sweden’s dog days are  bracketed by the dates July 22nd through August 23rd.  That seems reasonable for the United States as well.  My

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New Yorker Artists Converse in San Fran; Partying with Mick Stevens

              From LitQuake, notice of an event in San Francisco, October 15th: “Every Picture Tells A Story: New Yorker Artists in Conversation” — the artists are Tom Toro, Mark Ulriksen, Eric Drooker, and Owen Smith   _________________________________________________________________________________________________     And the guest blogs continue over at newyorker.com. This week it’s “Party Time With Mick

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Jeter Gets the Jeter Cover

From minonline, September 29, 2014, “New York Yankees Honor Derek Jeter with the Original Drawing of The New Yorker Cover” — this piece on the September 8th cover by Mark Ulriksen titled “Derek Jeter Bows Out”  — the piece also mentions Roger Angell’s recent writing on Jeter’s farewell as well as John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” – his

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