reach out hey, how you doing kid? what a far-away voice feels as close as you feel, reach oust and touch someone. at&t. much cheaper. a ten-minute phone call used cost $11 in today s dollaring. now basically free. replacing take-out menus address book, rolodexs. my phone elimb aints the need for snail mail. i don t miss it. elimon aipts fax machines, paper maps. don t need these anymore. gps units. compasses and let s not forget the music machines. if want a good, quality radio like this i was excited to buy this big thing when i was a kid. put on a new stereo record and listen. and if you wanted that new thing calmed astaire stereo.
describes the family as racked with guilt and confusion. they don t even mention their son anymore. and he details a struggle that they ve been in to control a killer that seemed to be never ending. i sat down with astaire and he described this first time he ever talked with the shooter. as soon as you met him he was unbearably reserved, self contained. he seemed to merge into the walls. i remember one particular occasion at christmas there was a party just after christmas and i went out into the street to get some fresh air. and he was there. and i disturbed him. and i said to him, i m sorry, elliott, that i ve bothered you. he said, no, no, let s talk. which surprised me. he asked me, because i m a novelist, what it s like writing novels, don t i feel lonely. i said, did i feel it s solitary, and he said i know
need to know about their digital footprint. it s a window into what s going on. what s particularly sad about the digital footprint piece is that people like him who have poor self-esteem, who are alienated, they go to the internet in an attempt to get support, to get reassurance. and usually what happens is the opposite. however, people that have good self-esteem and self confidence they can go to the internet and get lots of support and lots of friends and lots of tweets. it s not the case for people like him. newtown and here, two families who both went to authorities for help. there was a consideration of surrounding custody to get that kid in newtown into treatment and both times we saw holes in the system. cops are not set up to figure up your mental health and not trained for it. they didn t even search his room. they never looked online. there are big holes in the system of how we deal with this. the big take-away with me for mr. astaire was imagine raising someone and they d