Rainy day in Central Park, but freshmen orientation got off to a great start. Loved the poetry slam, creative, rhythmic stories delivered with passion and intelligence. Met students from every campus and many high schools — Hunter High Science, Townsend Harris, Herricks, Midwood, Molloy, Yeshiva Flatbush, La Guardia — what, no Stuy? must have been […]
Old dumb media on my iPad
August 19, 2010 by
Why does Vanity Fair cost $3.99 if you buy it on your iPad but $4.99 if you buy it on iTunes? If you go to the VF site, you are invited to buy a print subscription ($1/issue if you buy annually), Wait, why does it cost anything at all since I have a print subscription? […]
Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..
August 13, 2010 by
Coming soon to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida — a great place to visit in February! — is Arlene Hutton’s Letters to Sala, based on my book, Sala’s Gift. Arlene (aka Beth Lincks), directed by Eric Nightengale. I will be there as Scholar in Residence from February 11 to 14. Here’s more info on […]
Earthlink strikes again! Serves me right for being Earthlink’s last customer! They won’t let me go! Amex to the rescue!
August 12, 2010 by
what? you’re still using Earthlink? Well, reader, I was. But I thought I had written the last chapter of this 15 year saga when I finally cancelled my service on June 28. Earthlink Sam even gave me a cancellation number, which, thanks to my iPad, Penultimate, and Evernote, and my blog entry to commemorate this […]
Don’t look now
August 9, 2010 by
From all those people looking into screens rather than ahead, around, behind them, we can conclude that something superior is right there on the screen. Why would any dumb text message seem more interesting than real life? Gary Shteyngart’s publicity is turned up way high, but everything I’ve read about him and by him is […]
I never liked sheet music except for the red leather Chopin Ballades that my mother bought for me in Vienna…
July 17, 2010 by
Ultimate word cloud….try Wordle! Oh no! there went another hour!
July 10, 2010 by
Up on the roof
July 5, 2010 by
Wedding 2010 made the NYT twice and Gawker.com today. Although the NYT didn’t include a photo of Liz and Matt in the announcement, they made up for it with another article today. Now that I know it was 101 degrees (was it really??), I am even more amazed at cool Rabbi Bachman, who was entirely […]
Elisabeth Kirschner Weinberg and Matthew Stine
July 4, 2010 by
Happy Fourth of July….. I read it in the New York Times…. Wedding 2010 has arrived!
Podcast: Reading Little Dorrit on the iPad; or, I read Dickens FIVE WAYS
July 2, 2010 by
NPR updated my answer to the question I asked last year: Do I love reading or do I love books? Here’s the Chronicle of Higher Education original article, and the one I just published on the iPad: Reading Dickens Four Ways (2009) My iPad Day (2010) Check out this Judy Jetson illustration that accompanied the […]