Actually, it may well be good to be Theodore all year ’round: for reasons of experiential subjectivity, I just don’t know. But this has been a good week for him in particular. We were all amused to see the New York Times’s City Room blog pick up his DadWagon post about JP water-fightin’ at the …
Author Archives: Nathan
Toy Story 3: Buried Alive
Pixar’s Toy Story 3, which I took the kids to see this weekend, does not lack for praise. Richard Corliss, a serious and sober reviewer at Time, called it an “instant classic.” I know this because the Daily Herald wrote a whole piece about all the (clichéd) superlatives chasing the movie. The third Toy Story …
Pediatric Repetitis
I understand the evolutionary imperative that babies have to coo and smile and goo-goo-ga-ga their parents until those parents forget that they are no longer sleeping, having sex, or rock-n-rolling on any level. It’s a way to ensure that babies don’t get purposefully thrown out with, as they say, the bathwater. But what has evolution …
A touch of TV power
One thing that stood out in my most recent trip to Russia: the Kremlin could care less about what magazines print. Seriously. Magazines, radio, even some newspapers are allowed to criticize Putin, Medvedev, whomever. Yes, there are some taboo topics (New Times editor Evgenia Albats’s office was recently raided after she criticized the riot police). And …