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Ever since Ken Hudson Campbell, playing a jaded but well-meaning Santa (–in his first role, it turns out), put out his butt and pulled up his beard to accommodate one last request (in Home Alone of course), I, and perhaps every adult American my age, have been uniquely attuned to Hollywood’s penchant for ironizing — prematurely, [...]
In an article entitled “Looking Differently at ADHD,” Julie Hail Flory reframes so-called attention deficit in terms of “memory retrieval”, or the “failure of active maintenance.”
It happens to us all – you walk to the refrigerator, open the door, then stand there, unable to remember why you went to the kitchen in the first place.
You [...]
“The alabaster bosom that seventeenth-century poets celebrated in their poems was to be found only in dolls, whose fragility often cost them their existence.”
Walter Benjamin, “Cultural History of Toys” 115
Taken together, three short essays by Walter Benjamin on the subject of toys outline a novel approach to the cultural meaning of toys, [...]
The placement of the above anti-obesity ad - on the seats of swings in a children’s playground - is wholly inappropriate. Even if obesity is a problem amongst children, the last thing in the world you should be doing is putting signs where they play that say, in effect, ‘you are fat’. Eating disorders, after [...]
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