May 24, 2010 - 9:15 pm
I was in a taxi the other day with my three-year-old and realized that he will likely never know a NYC taxi ride without a television. There are so many things about this ever-evolving city that, for better and/or worse, kids born after 2004 likely won’t experience. So, a list, incomplete and in no particular order, of stuff that kids these days won’t experience in their NYC (please feel free to add to it)
Taxis without televisions
Subway tokens
Time Square streets jammed with cars instead of pedestrians
Food loaded with transfat
Smoky bars/clubs/restaurants
The Twin Towers
Menus without calorie counts
Tower Records
Boomboxes playing cassettes and CDs
Those concrete mounds in Washington Square Park
Circuit City
Remotely affordable rent in Manhattan
The Old Yankee Stadium
Ubiquitous Law and Order production vans
CBGBs
September 29, 2009 - 12:36 pm
Even though kids supposedly hate Twitter, there are still a few of characters out there to follow. As if you haven’t already wasted enough time reading the tweets of real people (most of the time). Pinecone munching Solarian Gustafer Yellowgold (@Gustafer) tweets about his encounters with earth dwellers.
Samples from @OfficialElmo, @OfficialBigBird, @OfficialCookieM, @R2D2, @The_Pigeon, @HappySquared, @SantaClaus, @realeasterbunny, and @toothfairynews after the jump. Also, Dora’s dark side revealed on twitter. More >
September 3, 2009 - 11:23 am
Tara Lazar - who has a ton of great stuff on her blog – has a great list of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators who are on Twitter. I’m a big fan of @The_Pigeon (of the Mo Willems series)
Children’s Picture Book Authors & Illustrators on Twitter « Tara Lazar.
July 23, 2009 - 7:51 am
This is a great list of many of the things that our kids will never know about. We can find a few gaps, like the “auto-reverse” function of a Walkman. But that’s really more of a subcategory to number 3, “Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.” But let’s take a moment to honor auto-reverse as a huge advance in personal stereo technology. It meant that you didn’t have to bother actually turning a tape over to hear the other side. Genius. At the time. Thanks GeekDad.
Posted via web from Chad
