The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. By now, observant social media types (and/or Spill visitors) have had four days to digest the latest issue’s cover. Our current President as Scrooge, and in the background, one of his former associates singing, like a canary(?). As this is a
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 20, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Wow, three weeks in row without a political cover. This latest cover, of two children chalking out a hopscotch pattern on the ground, has a title, as have all covers since Tina Brown instituted the practice. I’ve always wondered why it’s
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 30, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We are definitely in the Halloween mode in the new issue, and it all begins with Carter Goodrich’s cover; a scary clown looking remarkably similar to our current president peers out from the woods. For some reason my thoughts drifted back
Read moreThe 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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