Tom & Alissa

Am miserable failure as blogger, lately, because life is just too busy and too full to really consider it. I twitter and I check Facebook and I write and I run a magazine, and when internet activity needs to drop off, blogging is the first to go.

In brief, though:
• Tom is busily finishing up the current shoot and hoping the next one is around the corner.
• I am busily plotting to take over the world as full a slate of programming as a nonprofit can handle in times of recession for 2009, writing, editing, and trying to study somewhere in there too. Next week is my last week working at NYU, which will hopefully take some of the load off.
• Since the last iBook I had was four years old, not mine, and subsequently stolen, I finally decided it was time to have an actual computer to, you know, write on and use at work and do all that studenty stuff. Hence, I got a shiny new MacBook (the cheaper version) and plan on it lasting me a very long time. And I love it - it’s small and light.

Am actually too scattered to think about much lately. But these articles have been provocative, when I’ve crammed them into short subway rides:
• A country so polarized that consuming arugula has become a political act: A conservative thinker is branded a closet liberal based on the food he eats.
• Malcolm Gladwell’s article on late bloomers, essential reading for everyone.
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to Run Artists’ Space on Governors Island
• Farmer in Chief - why food is important, and why it’s possible to change as a nation, for our health, our resources, our economy, and the way we treat the poor.