Every father was different when he was young. Each pop said he'd raise his kids differently than how he ended up raising them. Celebrity dads aren't different, at least based on the material being cranked out of the publicity machine attached to Robert De Niro's new [...]
A father's journey grows from the abstract to the specific figure to focus on. Not wholly coincidentally, that is the journey described by Helen Park Bigelow in David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back her tribute to her father.
This week's objet d'eBay, a window decal declaring a mammalian parental relationship, may well be something to stock up on. Thanks to scientific advances, rabbit penises can now be grown ... and perhaps someday attached to humans much as we now have other [...]
Today's hint for the father who has been a tyrant: do a [George] Steinbrenner and stay alive long enough to be feeble and remembered fondly. Thus, we have this week's objet d'eBay, the March 1, 1993 Sports Illustrated cover (highlighting the featured article, "Will'" [...]
Television folk often seem like the family. They're not. They're folks who have family of their own. Today, as we say ciao bello to Milton Supman — video anarchist (nihilist?) Soupy Sales, who passed this past Thursday — we also remember his Top 40 hit, [...]
Let's consider the artwork of the movie poster. This week's objet d'eBay advertises the remake of The Stepfather, getting its couple weeks of critical attacks in the theater before moving on in movie history,
From the yin and yang of the universe (or maybe just its flotsam and jetsam) comes tales of fatherhood.
This week's objet d'eBay, "To Is a Preposition, Come is a Verb," serves notice that daughter Kitty (actually, Brandy Kathleen) is letting go of the material that binds her to her father, comedic saint Lenny Bruce. For two weeks, the tchochkes of his life' [...]
As imagined by L. Frank Baum (father of four ... and of The Wizard of Oz):
"You change, all of a sudden," Federer said [to the AP about being father of twin girls], snapping his fingers, "from needing nine hours of sleep, to saying, 'five is plenty."'
From summer's muggy oppression arises this objet d'eBay, Issue #1 of Daredevil: Father, a tale of a serial killer loose among people with daddy issues in the deadliest heatwave NYC has every known. It is the is the first of six in the series,created' [...]
This week's objets d'eBay — first the Florida dad plate and then the Pops from Nebraska — may just seem like someone bragging from beneath their trunk. And maybe they are.
