Taking a Good Idea too Far

Is it just me, or is there something just not right about this:
http://www.personalizedcause.com/index.html

Lower East Side: First stop, not quite a total success.

So, we went to visit my brother, Ethan - also known as l.e.s.ter on the Lower East Side. However, it was at best a partial success because:

1. I forgot the camera to commemorate the event, and
2. I forgot we needed to have Molly and Kelly, and Kelly didn't even come on the trip.

Still, it was a good trial run for our first "real" trip we'll take one day soon.

Lower East Side - Our First Stop from "Up & Down New York"

So, it's decided. This Saturday we will be going to the Lower East Side in our first stop from "Up & Down New York." More details to follow.

Creepy or Cool?

I can't decide.

To see more:

http://www.kentrogowski.com/

Our first NY journey on short-term hold

Wow, I could not have predicted the three-way tie that resulted from the poll about where the girls and I should go first in our recreation of Up & Down New York. Nor could I have foreseen that Molly would receive an invitation to a friend's birthday for this Sunday, the planned day for our first outing.

So, the location and the date of our first outing is TBD for now, stay tuned!

Who Knew So Many New Yorkers had Blogs?

I found this site today. It has blogs organized by which subway stop they were closest to. I of course immediately signed-up to have my blog added.

For all you New York City bloggers, this is a great place to add your blog or find other Big City bloggers.

Check it out here: NYC Bloggers.

A website everyone should check out

I rarely find a site or organization I feel compelled to pass along, but I am a really big fan of an organization in Boston working to curb marketing and advertising to children. They are Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), and I cannot believe some of the things the corporate world is doing. Some examples:

• McDonalds being allowed to advertise on public school report cards in Florida


• Bratz and other commercial items being sold by Scholastic at School Book Fairs


• BabyFirstTV, the first TV channel aimed at infants as young as six-months old.

The CCFC successfully protested against all these attempts by the corporate world to truly act against the best interests of children, and I am just genuinely grateful these folks are out there looking out for children and doing something about the ridiculous marketing to kids that is so incredibly widespread these days.

If you feel like getting angry about the state of the world, definitely check out CCFC's website and the links to current campaigns. And then, you can click "take action" on their campaigns, and feel a little better about this little over-producing, global warming, materialistic chunk of dirt and water we call earth.