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One day back in the early 1980s, when I was a young teenager, I was hanging out at a friend’s apartment. We both had Atari computers, I had the 400 and he had the fancier Atari 800, and spent a lot of time copying games and trying to figure out how to play them. You see, if you pirated a [...]
My daughter Hazel, after ten years of listening to what her parents wanted to hear and wanted her to hear, found music that neither her father or I could lay claim to, pop music designed for girls her age: Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera. We'd taken her to see Bob Dylan at Jones Beach when she was one, Hazel [...]
[caption id="attachment_10184" align="alignleft" width="519"] Untitled by Harold Shapinsky[/caption] Twenty New York blocks gets you a mile. Back in "our time," a motley crew of urban youth crossed the Manhattan landscape with that formula in our heads. We understood distance. We got time. We lived the algebraic formula of Time x Speed = Distance. If we started peddling our bikes at the [...]
I broke up with my first boyfriend one month, two weeks, and four days after I found out he was fucking his neighbor. I never told him that I’d overheard them. He never wanted to fight; he didn’t want us to be the couple who fought. It was important to him that we maintain a good reputation. He’d take me [...]
