Put that phone down, punk!

May 3rd, 2010 by Theodore | No Comments

I went out to dinner with JP, my father, and my father’s wife this past Friday. It was sweltering that night, so the streets were filled with people out on the town. Walking home from the restaurant I got a phone call from JP’s mother, asking to talk to him before he went to bed. [...]


Neighborhood Envy

April 13th, 2010 by Nathan | 6 Comments

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 [...]


City Mouse and Country Mouse

March 16th, 2010 by Nathan | 4 Comments

City Mouse and Country Mouse: that’s how my friend Kevin put the differences between my son and his (both are closing in on two years old) when we visited them over the weekend in their beautiful little town on Tomales Bay in Northern California. I had commented on our cultural differences before after our last [...]


In the Street

March 8th, 2010 by Nathan | 5 Comments

Our friend DaddyTypes had a very good week last week. Not only did he bring forth this hilarious Goodnight Moon Star Wars edition by Noah Dziobecki (titled “Goodnight Forest Moon”, of course), but he also reminded us of the awesome that is mid-century New York street photographer Helen Levitt. She’s got an exhibit at the [...]




  

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