Weekend Spill: The Best Part Of Waking Up Is New Yorker (?) Coffee In Your Cup; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of October 11-15, 2021: More Spills…Reuben Awards, Podcasts Posted

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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Friday Spill (Part II): Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Kaamran Hafeez; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Toro Speaks

Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Kaamran Hafeez The trio of Vin, Beth, and Paul quiz New Yorker cartoonist Kaamran Hafeez in this new episode. Mr. Hafeez began contributing to the magazine in 2010. Visit his website here.   Above, far right: Mr. Hafeez’s collection (mentioned in the podcast), published in 2019.    ______________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Ali Solomon, who

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Thurber Thursday: You’re Kidding, Right?; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Michael Shaw; American Bystander #18 In The House

You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here

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Friday Spill: Mick Stevens On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Mick Stevens On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast  The one-and-only Mick Stevens is the latest guest. Hear it here. Mr. Stevens first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the very last issue of 1979. _______________________________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Thursday’s Daily Cartoon is by Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020.        

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