This comes from Magda P., whom I met down in Buenos Aires just days before the entire leadership of her native country was lost in a single plane crash (a terrible tragedy with the worst kind of ironic timing, but still: even Time Inc. allegedly has rules against all of its top brass flying on …
Author Archives: Nathan
Dad’s weak-ass advice
I came across this piece in the Star-Ledger that on a brighter day would’ve perhaps added some sunshine to my step. But on this particular day, it made me want to castrate wallabies. It’s a guest column, I suppose, from a “career coach” (let’s just piss on the grave of journalism a bit more, thought …
What to read among the Pulitzer Winners
Congratulations to all the winners of the Pulitzer yesterday, which, given the state of print media, is a little like being handed a lollipop on the deck of the Titanic. But still, a fine honor. I was particularly glad to see Gene Weingarten’s devastating Washington Post Magazine piece on hyperthermia–babies who die when their parents …
Neighborhood Envy
Taking advantage last night of an early bedtime for the savage toddlers who cohabitate with me, I decided to go down to Alphabet City to eat cheap Turkish food and act a fool with an old friend for a little while. He has just sublet a place on Avenue C, near Houston St., in a …