July 29th, 2010 by Theodore | 1 Comment
Last night the girlfriend and I took a tour of the hospital where she is going to deliver the baby. Rather than bore you with my thoughts about how different it was doing this the second time around, how nervous the other first-time parents seemed, how much of an old pro I felt myself to [...]
July 29th, 2010 by Matt | 1 Comment
Did you know Playboy has a blog? Did you care? I mean, the men’s magazine hasn’t been relevant in either the pornographic world or the literary world for at least a decade, so when Hef’s crew launched The Smoking Jacket (recently? a while back? who knows?) no one really noticed.
But yesterday, the blog published “How [...]
July 28th, 2010 by Theodore | 1 Comment
I wanted to react briefly to Matt’s contribution to this week’s Tantrum on yelling in front of children.
Matt claims that he remembers only a single instance of serious argument between his parents when he was young, and that his memory only comes to him, as if in a dream. This provokes several responses from me:
sarcastic [...]
July 6th, 2010 by Theodore | 4 Comments
I left my bike at work last Friday, which meant that this morning I drove JP to school (yes, I could have taken the bus, but come on–I’m a man here, folks). Anyway, as I think is fairly customary at schools in Brooklyn, the traffic cops allow parents dropping off their children to double park [...]