It started with an innocent enough question, from me to another parent at Dalia’s pre-school: what are you doing for Christmas? “First of all,” she said, “we’re Jewish, so we’re not doing anything for Christmas.” Ah, right. Oops. Me too. In the fine tradition of Walter Benjamin and, I suppose, the 12 Apostles, I am …
Author Archives: Nathan
Weighing in on Tiger Woods
Of all the foolish and speculative things said over the weekend about Tiger Woods, the worst was something I caught out of the corner of my eye on some cable network (Fox News? MSNBC? When it comes to the tabloid-type stories, all the cable networks seem about the same). Some pert nag of an image consultant …
Kill James. Or his mom.
I guess the video is a year old, but Brooklyn writer Phil Campbell passed this along over the weekend, so for me it’s brand spanking new. It’s about a toddler named James who has a talking Elmo that glitched into saying Kill James. Ha ha. But when I watched the thing, I got caught about …
Sippy Cups Cause Impotence
A new HuffPost report from my former TIME Magazine colleague Elaine Shannon: apparently BPA, the synthetic estrogen that leaches out of plastics used to make many baby bottles and sippy cups causes impotence, or what used to be known as Whiskey Dick before we got so much book learnin’. I am the first to admit …