Following up on yesterday’s trend story–and, I like to think, Dadwagon’s post–the Times’s Lisa Belkin notes that if you didn’t find enough “controversy” there, the baby-sling follies have taken a new turn. Now it’s a safety issue! Warning labels! Possible recalls afoot! I can’t wait for the (inevitable) next turn of the argument: Are these …
Author Archives: Christopher
Slings and Arrows
Like a lot of media people (and with apologies to Dadwagoneer Matt), I have a love-hate relationship with the New York Times. Its newsgathering ability is peerless, its authority as solid as any–and its news hole is so big that, at least once a day, there’s a story in its pages that makes you slap …
No, I Will Not Fire Up the Grill
Gourmet has gone under, Bon Appetit is hanging on for dear life, and the TV Food Network has turned into the all-travelogue channel, with barely any actual cooking instruction taking place. But never fear: The Stupid-Magazine specialists have leapt into action, and we will shortly all be introduced to Deen Bros., the cooking magazine …
This Is Not a Drill
At my dentist’s today, for a small and painless procedure: He noticed on a recent visit that I had a little crevice on one molar, one that threatened to turn into something worse. (“You have a teenage cavity–very exciting,” he told me.) So he flowed in a plastic resin–a sealant, they call it–to smooth out …