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My Glamorous Life

Time Warner Cable canceling Noggin?

Although Time Warner Cable’s uncountable levels of existential suckage could induce vomiting in a giraffe, reality is never as clear-cut as a crawl on Noggin.

10 Best Things About Coming Depression

Like it says.

Kids say the darnedest things. Say the darnedest things. Say the darnedest things.

Parenting a four-year-old is like living with Rain Man.

Fast high-speed access for NYC internet professionals

I’m home watching a sick kid and waiting for Time Warner Cable to come make a third attempt to install a cable modem.

Regarding the dishwasher

It is as if everything is broken, and everyone knows it, and we perpetually postpone the reckoning.

The lessons of September 11, 2002

On September 11, 2002, I found myself in a place as strange as Vegas. I was there to speak at a web conference. They must have gotten a good deal on the rooms, it being the first anniversary of the attacks….

A Town Called Gale

Has your child committed murder? Move to Gale!

Running woman and madman

Two incidents mark my morning walk to work.

Death

Ava, who is nearly four, is not so bothered about Daddy’s monster toe, but great-grandma’s passing still troubles her.

What happened here

This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has seen everything from drug withdrawal to the first stirrings of childbirth. Happiness, anguish, farting and honeymoons. Everything. Everything but death.