Earth to Earthlink: goodbye from your last customer

I registered my domain in 1998 and soon thereafter set up web hosting with Earthlink.  Hey, it was 1998!  My first website was created to keep friends and family informed […]

Better than the last LOST: San Francisco in 1906…but maybe not better than 24.

I share the common opinion that LOST lost it after the first year, though I have remained sort of loyal for all these years.  But not with the devotion I […]

Must you deconstruct everything?

I found this picture on the Guardian website and found it rather depressing. Yeah, I know, it’s just a machine. Am writing on an article on creativity and the iPad […]

MACAULAY ARTS NIGHT V. ENRON

I had to leave Macaulay Arts Night to see the new Broadway show, ENRON, and I wish I had stayed. Enron was boring, didactic, frantic, and way too long. Macaulay […]

La la la Pulitzer!(Bracha)

Paul Harding’s Tinker, a novel published by the Bellevue Literary Press, won the Pulitzer Prize last week. Two summers ago, I interned at that small publication within the walls of […]

BRUNO STRONG!

Bruno Salazar was traveling with two other Macaulay@City College seniors in Costa Rica last week.  They were there to volunteer as tutors in an orphanage, and then they continued on […]

Notes on Cupcakes (Bracha)

A Symbol of Status in the Me-Me-Me Generation Hello, my name is Bracha and I am cupcake-junkie. Can I just say, YUM? Any visit to the Upper West Side requires […]

More on the iPad (Bracha)

I do not have an iPad yet (though I believe it is time to make some big technological changes in my life), but have been watching the digital drama unfold […]

It’s the case, stupid

Now I am actually over the novelty factor, I promise. No handwriting recognition continues to nag at me, since I really want to hand write notes. The weight is more […]

Spring Fever (Bracha)

It is spring! The season beckons exclamation points. Leaves! Tulips! Sparrows hopping and chirping! My heavy winter coat no longer suffocates me with its wooly warmth. A light spring jacket—in […]