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Lambey's Log (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just discovered that one of my favorite illustrators, Lowell Hess, has a new website . It's jam packed with amazing illustrations, pop-ups, and incredible wood carvings. Please check it out, and if you like the work as much as I do, then feel free to leave him a note saying so. P.S. if you'd like to see even more of his work, then check out Shane Glines's Cartoon Retro website. Shane's collected...
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An Alaskan Abroad (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Bill Hess has started a cat blog. There's no way to sugarcoat it, one of Alaska's best independent journalists has gone to the cats. And if that wasn't embarrassing enough for a man who named both his airplane and his...
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Drawn! (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Illustrator Lowell Hess, whose career began in the 1950s, has a modest image-rich website put together by his wife. In addition to his marvelous magazine and advertising illustrations, the site is home to some of his wood carvings and pop-up paper work. For more, our pal Leif Peng contacted Mr. Hess back in 2005, and [...]
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Engadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets , Laptops Okay, third time's the charm -- here it is, a pre-production picture of the Skooba Checkthrough TSA-approved bag , direct from Skooba's CEO, Michael Hess. Michael got in touch with after our last post to say that the Checkthrough will indeed be a multi-pocketed bag and have several unique and patented features, including a specal 3-1-1 liquids compartment...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Police arrested a 19-year-old man this morning who they said used a toy gun during a robbery spree in Orlando. Police said Gustavo Echeverry robbed the Hess gas station on Turkey Lake Road around 11:45 p.m. Monday, then robbed a...
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess write on the Huffington Post: Thanks largely to the Olympics, 2008 will go down in history as a turning point year for China -- or, rather, one when the country passed several milestones. It'll be remembered as a turning point year in Chinese sports history, ...
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A Library Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monograph: Women Writing on Today's American Family Foreword: Robbi Hess, Journalist, co-author, Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names (Penguin Books); Editor, Byline Magazine Afterword: Suzanne Bunkers, Professor of English, Minnesota State University, editor of Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler (University of Wisconsin Press) This is a book about writing and publishing...
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boi from troy (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you think California’s hand-to-mouth budgeting system has created a mell of a hess, just imagine how things might be in Washignton under a President Barack Obama. His plans for paying for more than $130 billion in new spending rely on one-time revenue gains. “You cannot justify a longer-term commitment to a program based on a [...]
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In 1972, Jerome Tuccille published It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand , his memoir of the libertarian movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Palling around with the likes of economist Murray Rothbard, former Goldwater speechwriter Karl Hess, and others, Tuccille sought to fashion a left-right coalition between elements of the New Left and and the Old Right. It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The Tampa Bay Rays are the latest business to use free gasoline to fuel interest and sales. The Rays and Hess Express are offering $5 Hess gas cards to all fans who attend the July 18, game against the Toronto Blue Jays, according to a team press release.
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TBO > Sports (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The Tampa Bay Rays are the latest business to use free gasoline to fuel interest and sales. The Rays and Hess Express are offering $5 Hess gas cards to all fans who attend the July 18, game against the Toronto Blue Jays, according to a team press release.
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New Haven Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... met to consider a minor revision in the contract that will allow the city to purchase land from Amerada Hess Corp. The revision will allow Hess to report progress on pollution remediation of the 100 River St. site to the state Department of Environmental Protection at the cleanup’s end instead of after every phase.The Sophie Group, the construction arm of Colony Hardware, is...
