I went to the season’s first New York Public Schools Gifted and Talented information session on Monday night. Whatever I was supposed to get out of the meeting, I came away with this: the K-5 Gifted and Talented program seems like an almost complete sham, but I might still try to get my daughter into …
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MILF: The Other Side of the Story
Passed along by Alex Smith, the beared rockfather behind Flaming Pablum, here’s a music video from Astronomical Kid highlighting the terrible costs paid by possessive pseudo-sexual adolescent boys who happen to have hot moms. The second verse gets right to it: I don’t understand why these dudes just looking at her Like they never seen …
Whoops I Ate a Pony
Only at the end of last night’s dinner of oxtail stew did we finally understand what Nico, our two-year-old, had been happily prattling on about: he thought he had been eating a pony. “It’s not a pony?” he asked. He finished the sentence with the same exaggerated uptilt he puts on the end of all …
Who’s your daddy: Paladino or Cuomo?
Cristopher Columbus may have sparked a genocide, but I still have to thank him for the opportunity to take a Monday holiday ride through Central Park with my kids. Coming around the northbound loop past the Met, we heard the Columbus Day parade and went to go have a look. I expected something good: giant …