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"Well, pay me! He ate it."by KenFirst off, let me confess that I added the comma after "well" in the above cartoon caption.

In this Season 6 preview, Good Wife cast members talk about the new season."Six seasons in, however, I've become weary of evangelizing for [The Good Wife].

After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake disaster, the James Perse store on Bleecker Street did a "Japan Window." Last week the store became the site of one of the annals' more perplexing heists.by KenI confess that in tonight's tale it was the "with underwear" in the head that made me click through to this true-crime report by DNAinfo New York's Danielle Tcholakian.

"This island isn't big enough for two clichés."by KenThey're a pretty tight fraternity, those New Yorker cartoonists. Which makes it all the more remarkable that this week the cartoon dept. is taking us behind the scenes and revealing some of their most closely held secrets: the locations of some of the most heavily used cartoon settings.

"Is everything O.K., sir?

Barry Blatt, The New Yorkerby KenIn case you've missed the announcement, made at the end of the "Talk of the Town" section of the July 28 issue and featured prominently all week on newyorker.com, The New Yorker has implemented some major decisions about online availability of its content.

Reading via an electronic device, even one that's designed to mimic reading from paper, may be as different from print reading as reading online is. Anne Mangen, a researcher in Norway, tells Maryanne Wolf: "Anecdotally, I've heard some say it's like they haven't read anything properly if they've read it on a Kindle.

New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff adds a note of caution to this vision of paradise conjured by Roz Chast: "Don’t try this at home unless this is in your home." (Note: You should be able to enlarge tonight's cartoon's a little -- like from 420 to 465 pixels wide -- by clicking on them.

The last from Charles? (From the June 9/16 New Yorker)[Click to enlarge]by KenThe cartoon for which Charles Barsotti is most famous, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff reminds us, "has nothing to do with any of [the] 'big questions.' I'm not sure what it has to do with, but I dare you to look at it and not laugh."Okay, Bob, let's take that dare.

Tom Toles, Washington Post [click to enlarge]by KenThe political craziness level has, at least for the time being, flipped me out, and I refuse to let it crowd out some swell times I've been having on to such nifty places as The Players, the theatrical club founded by the great actor Edwin Booth on Gramercy Park South (a Municipal Art Society Tour with Matt Postal), Coney Island (a Municipal Art Soci