You may have heard about the air-traffic controller at JFK who let his kid step up to the microphone and start directing planes last month. And you can’t quite hate the FAA for coming down like a ton of aircraft parts on the guy. It’s bad enough up there, where the flights are arriving and …
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Matt’s Brooklyn Neighbors
Yesterday, the Internet’s new favorite punching bag noted that he’s a proud resident of the Brooklyn turf abutting the Gowanus Canal. And congratulations to him! I’m sure little Sasha has a pretty good chance of growing up without sprouting feelers or tentacles. Easily 80 percent! Probably even higher. Probably. As it happens, in my other …
Your First Birthday Is Our Marketing Bonanza
First birthday yesterday! The party over the weekend was sweet; our little guy was overtired at the end and didn’t sleep well last night, but all the same: awww. And I must say that baking my child’s very first birthday cake–come to think of it, his first cake, period–turned me all gooey inside. If only …
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Snow Day, Cont’d.
As Nate said earlier today, it’s a snow day. As a 10-year-old, I would’ve considered that the best possible treat. But when you work on a weekly magazine, you can’t shuffle work from day to day as you can in some places. Deadlines are measured in hours, and not in doses of 24. In our …