The baby is crying and crying and crying. She’s clinging to her father, grimacing in terror, while around her awkwardly stand four other toddlers, plastic cars in their fat hands, looks of perplexity on their round faces. What is going through their minds? I wonder, glad that the crying child isn’t actually mine. My Sasha …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
“Universal” actually means “Unavailable”
Today is March 1st, a notable day around here because the New York Public Schools pre-K program list (here as a .pdf) was posted online at 7 a.m. this morning. Okay, so this post may be of interest only to me and fellow Gothamists, but here it is: Theodore and I have been complaining about …
Dad, it’s all your fault
There are many things I blame Michael Douglas for. I blame him for not just acting in but also producing The Jewel of the Nile. I blame him and for trying to make us think that Demi Moore would sexually harass him in Disclosure. I blame him for glorifying anti-cholo violence in Falling Down. I would not blame …