A long time ago, when my daughter was still gestating in my wife’s womb, Jean and I tried to come up with a name for her. “Sasha” we already liked, but what about a middle name? Jean had a good idea: “Grey,” as in Sasha Grey Gross. It had a ring to it, but instead …
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Any Good Edutainment Videos Out There?
More than a year after we started Sasha watching the “Baby Signing Time” series of DVDs, she’s had enough. Now, every evening when we turn the TV on to watch Rachel de Azevedo Coleman and her animated friends Alex, Leah and Hopkins (the Frog), Sasha freaks out. Sometimes we think it’s because, from volumes 2 …
Q&A: Stephen Rout, Japanese Meme Boy, and His Father, Allen S. Rout
When parents post their kids’ photos on the Internet, they often do so with a bit of trepidation, fearful (almost always without reason) that they’re inviting stalkers into their lives or, less traumatically, exposing too much of their private sphere to public view. What most fail to consider is the possible upside—that the perfect photo …
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Subway Follies
There’s something uniquely stressful about New York City’s subways. In large part, it’s the basic environment down there, which ranges from filthy and damp to filthy and hot and damp, and the screech of the trains on the tracks often serves only to remind you that the system is so ancient and antiquated that it …