Number of comments: 4 "I want some cock," he said somewhere behind me. I was talking to the neighbor. We were sharing beers and laughs and suddenly silence. "What did he say?" the neighbor asked. "I want some cock," he said again as if...
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Number of comments: 2 Earlier this week, an article entitled "Custody Lost" appeared on the Working Mother website. The article, which you can read here in its entirety, bemoans the trend of stay-at-home-dads winning an increasing number of custody battles. Our friend Greg over...
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Number of comments: 8 Dude, this interweb shit is hard. Every week, coming up with something new to say about the sovereign state of dadhood? Hell, there's just not that much that happens in my world that's interesting. Honestly — is your life that...
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Number of comments: 5 I thought about waking him up. Yeah, 11:00 PM is late for a kindergartner, but this? Oh, he'd dig it. Of course, I wouldn't inform him of my plan. The surprise would be better - a tap on the shoulder,...
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Number of comments: 18 My review copy of Dan Zanes and Friends' Broadway album 76 Trombones was thisclose to the donation bin when I realized that one of you dedicated -- nay, downright sexy -- DadCentric readers deserved it more than those freeloaders at...
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Number of comments: 7 The hottest ticket in LA this weekend? Yo Gabba Gabba Live. Four shows at the Shrine Expo Hall, two on Saturday, two on Sunday. The PR firm that works with the show hooked me up with some free tickets for...
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Number of comments: 10 I used to be a rock climber. I started rock climbing because heights terrify me. I was a quick study; you have to be, because if you aren't you tend to fall, which can kill you. I have the mind...
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Number of comments: 1 To everyone that offered their thanks on Wednesday, "You're welcome." No, that's really not right of me. That sounds rather snotty, dont'cha think? Let's start again. Thank you. I think I can speak for many of us who have donned...
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Number of comments: 15 He sits behind me, back and to the right. The light flashes across his face in bright bursts of fluid, blinding white, illuminating his broad smile and the exhilaration in his eyes as the car shifts effortlessly over alternating hurdles...
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Number of comments: 19 Heat, as an extreme, exists only in a relative sense. It is the hottest thing they have ever known and therefore it is the hottest thing ever known. I tell them that it is not, that my coffee is actually...
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Number of comments: 3 Their faces are all smiles, their little bodies eruptions of laughter. They are embodiments of joy in its purest form. And they are not the only ones in this picture subject to the feeling. The parents too are caught up...
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Number of comments: 5 A Marlboro Light haze and the sweet staleness of spilled beer most likely filled the room the first time I met Dan Zanes. He was just a minor rock god then although Rolling Stone magazine and Miller High Life were...
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Number of comments: 2 Ever been to a press conference? It's weird. There's a podium and stage lighting. TV cameras. Boom mics. And there are journalists. Real journalists. Next to you is a guy from the New York Times, on the other side of...
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Number of comments: 13 I walked in late, the last to arrive; yesterday was a travel day, and it had been delays and missing the invitees' dinner and a steak with three Martinis to make up for that. The rest were sitting at the...
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Number of comments: 10 As my twin daughters begin the long, slow descent from the gentle arms of pre-K into the savage maw of Kindergarten and the infinite abyss of public school education that lies beyond, I hereby request that the following items be...
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Number of comments: 1 You know how I feel about the books and the action and the mystery and the stuff. I'm for it. I'm always looking for the next Encyclopedia Brown to come along. Maybe a Three Investigators. Hey, it could happen. That's...
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Number of comments: 6 I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t write this post. Ah, screw it. So Halloween is over for another year. Jack O’Lanterns are rotting on their porches. Hollow plastic pumpkins have been filled and emptied again. Costumes have been traded in...
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Number of comments: 2 Statement of Full Disclosure: the PR guy who works for the self-described "ridiculous and burgeoning rock band for kids" The Jimmies emailed me a few weeks back and asked me if I would like a copy of their new DVD/CD...
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Number of comments: 3 I spent a recent weekend hanging out at Nissan's San Diego headquarters driving fast and taking chances. I had to sign waivers. I think. The good people at Nissan flew me to San Diego, put me up at the W...
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Number of comments: 9 A week chock full of Events, and as of 6:45 PM PST Monday November 2, I'd yet to even begin a post. DadCentric is my job. Writer's block isn't an option. If I were my boss, I'd fire me. Two...
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Number of comments: 9 I was gonna put together a long and thoughtful post about DadCentric's fourth anniversary, which is tomorrow. It was to contain words like "ground-breaking" and "revolutionary" and "influential". Eh. That sounds assy, even to me. If accolades are to be...
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Number of comments: 13 It was around this time in 2005 that Jason wrote about getting it in his head that there weren't a lot of blogs out there that catered to him and his ilk. (Can I just say that I love the...
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Number of comments: 5 Alumni Week continues with a visit from Chag Holland, AKA Cynical Dad. The title's somewhat misleading; he's not that cynical, but he is funny and thoughtful, and remains at the top of the dadblogging heap. And even though I've yet...
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Number of comments: 6 Halloween, 1989. A freshman in college, hundreds of miles from home, freshly dumped by my high school girlfriend and, subsequently, a gaping, open emotional wound. My first campus Halloween party offers the promise of respite, loud music, frenzied dancing, and...
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Number of comments: 18 Sometimes I hear her whimper and I turn my head just far enough to remember that she is not there. She has been gone for weeks and she will be gone forever. I turn back to my desk and my...
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Number of comments: 4 "May you live in interesting times" is one of my favorite sayings; I modify it to "may you know interesting people". Jay Allen certainly qualifies; the blogger formerly known as The Zero Boss was one of the first guys I...
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Number of comments: 11 We make no secret of our love for Yo Gabba Gabba. Face it - any kids show that features The Aggrolites and The Roots is worth a grownup's time. The show has been on for two seasons, and has become...
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Number of comments: 4 This week, we're bringing back some old friends to help us celebrate DadCentric's Fourth Anniversary. Not to blow sunshine up our own asses, but this site has been the standard bearer for dadblogging excellence since its inception, and DadCentric writers...
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Number of comments: 4 Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. In elementary school it was the be-all-end-all shit for me. I'd labor for the entire month trying to decide what I was going to be. But by the time freshman year...
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Number of comments: 8 So the FTC won't let me be / or get somethin' free, so let me see / They try to shut me down on ol' DC / But it feels so nice to talk 'bout somethin' free. A couple of...
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Number of comments: 10 He says he wants to be a scuba diver. He says he wants to swim in the big aquarium with the turtles and sharks. To wear a mask and a tank, and float free and easy with the great schools...
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Number of comments: 7 Every year, blog readers around the world get to exercise their vote over at the Blogger's Choice Awards. Once again, DadCentric has been nominated for Hottest Daddy Blogger. We'd like to thank the members of The Academy for selecting us....
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Number of comments: 10 We walk through the ticker-tape of Autumn. Maples and Oaks and Walnuts give us their best fanfare and their music is at our feet. She takes two, perhaps three steps to my one and oddly, she is in the Lead....
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Number of comments: 19 It was one of those bedtime conversations, lying next to one another right before the last light is turned out. And because it happened right before bed, I can only remember it vaguely…the spirit of what was said, if not...
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Number of comments: 12 She started homeless. Now, she's a corporate whore! Say hello to Gwen Thompson, the American Girl doll whose fictional backstory starts her in rags but in real life brings in riches for her manufacturer, Mattel. If you haven't heard about...
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Number of comments: 18 Here's the thing. You'll always have the book. Rewind. Yesterday a writer for CNN.com asked me if I wanted to comment about the big-screen version of Where The Wild Things Are - did I think it was suitable for children?...
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Number of comments: 3 Having recently reentered the workforce after close to eight years as a stay-at-home-dad I’ve now found myself as part of the business traveler brotherhood. One thing I find shocking is that airports and hotels charge for internet connectivity. I guess...
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Number of comments: 15 Mischief. Of all kinds. Yelling. Running. Hitting. Finally: "Lucas. Lucas! LUCAS! TIME OUT!!! NOW! NOW!" We forget what childhood is really like. Living in a world of paradoxes: the desire of chaos and the need for order. Everything is small...
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Number of comments: 5 Today is Blog Action Day. Thousands of blogs around the world are united to bring attention to a single worthy cause. That cause is Climate Change. We here at DadCentric are in favor of not changing the Earth's climate. Because...
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Number of comments: 14 Say hello to Adam Manning, 30, of Bountiful, UT. Last Saturday, his wife gave birth to their first child. Hooray, Manning family! Except... wait. Adam wasn't there for the delivery. Why, you ask? Did something keep him from the hospital?...
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Oklahoma City, a couple of years ago. Winter, with a fittingly gray sky. You might stumble upon this place and, not knowing what it was or what brought it into existence, think it a pleasant little park, a patch of...
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Number of comments: 2 One of the things about having kids is that you're supposed to teach 'em stuff. It's a real pain in the ass, and often gets in the way of drinking beer and lying around. But the fact of the matter...
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Number of comments: 18 So about a week ago, our intrepid leader Jason forwarded an email to the DC crew from the folks at Eyes Cream Shades. They were looking to send us some kiddo-sized shades so’s we could try ‘em out and do...
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Number of comments: 4 We don't really listen to a lot of kid music, and by we I mean the collective family unit. My kids are well-versed in the Beatles and Weezer but they couldn't tell their Wiggle from a hole in the ground....
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Number of comments: 12 It's the day after Labor Day. Kids in school; wife at the corporate grindstone; dog at the groomer's being sanded down from two weeks of skirting tropical depressions and jellyfish. Me, I've assumed my usual position here while finishing the...
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Number of comments: 22 When it Rain s candy, when Treats fall from the heavens, when hardened/chewy bits of High Fructose go ZANG after the KAPOW(!) of the strike, and fly like birdshot. That's when one has to keep one's wits finely tuned. Deer...
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Number of comments: 4 No school. Those are the two words every parent fears hearing. If you are parents who work, there's always the scramble to find someone to watch your kids. And if you are a stay-at-home parent, there's the what the hell...
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Number of comments: 9 Earlier this week, I wrote a post over at Draft Day Suit regarding the retirement of New England Patriot linebacker, Tedy Bruschi. In it, I mentioned, more than once, that what I admired about him as an athlete was that...
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Number of comments: 44 Back in December, my brother-in-law gave my son a Christmas gift: a Justice League DVD. Almost instantaneously, it was lost in a massive pile of holiday debris: brobdingnagian plush polar bears, princess dresses, Lincoln Logs, multi-billion piece Lego sets, blahblahblah......
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Number of comments: 1 It takes a moment, but the sadness will hit you. Take a good look. (I got this pic off of the ever-interesting Daddy Types, run by our friend Greg, collector of rare Internet antiquities.)
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Number of comments: 10 The Count is my favorite. To read for I mean. I also enjoy Ernie and Oscar the Grouch, but Bert and Big Bird are kind of boring in the voice department. Cookie Monster hurts my throat sometimes. I also enjoy...
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Number of comments: 4 The fact that the potion existed, that, in and of itself, was not a secret. What happened to be in it, however, was not openly discussed in polite company. There had been the occasional murmur of this spice or that,...
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Number of comments: 27 "Those kids are mean," he said. He was talking to his wife for the room to hear. The kids that are mean were mine. "Which kids?" I asked. "That one there," he answered while pointing at my son. "What did...
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Number of comments: 31 ...which may or may not be porn. Ahem. So how many of you married or previously married or co-habitating or otherwise long-term-relationship-having peoples out there, when you were first a’courtin’, went out and saw a movie together? Show of hands?...
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Number of comments: 14 I am an avid reader. But that comes with the territory of being a writer. Actually, I confess that I used to be an avid reader. I used to make it a point to go to the local library's book...
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Number of comments: 21 The internet is divided. There are sides and opinions and ignorance and bits of slime and slander. People say stupid shit and things they can't take back. Feelings are hurt and friendships are lost. Then there is the matter of...
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Number of comments: 7 Hi - apparently, after writing for 2+ hours on a post, I found it to be absolute crap so I deleted it. In doing so, I pretty much blew my wad on that and now can't think straight so, I've...
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Number of comments: 12 He tells me, "Daddy, can you ask Santa for the Lego police station?" And I remind him: "Buddy, you mean: can 'I' ask Santa for the Lego police station?" Pronouns are elusive. "Daddy, can I ask Santa for the Lego...
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Number of comments: 8 “Hey Daddy, can we, um, can you, can, um, um, can you, um, daddy, can we, um, hey Daddy, can we...” This goes on for-seemingly-ever until he reaches the point. “Um, Daddy, can you play the ‘Daddy Farted’ song?” Sigh....
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Number of comments: 10 We live on a vast sprawling estate - almost an acre of land, which for suburban Southern California is consider vast and sprawling. Along with the orange trees and the magnificent herds of bison, there is a lawn, upon which...
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Number of comments: 20 They come in droves. They come with casseroles and microscopic outfits and warm wishes. They mean no harm. They don't understand. They are caught up in the moment, just like you are, when they ask...'So. How does it feel? How...
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Number of comments: 7 At the beginning of every summer I start off with a list of things to do with my boys. One summer I taught my oldest son Spencer how to ride a two-wheeler, another summer I taught him how to skateboard....
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Number of comments: 5 Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France... It's best, going into Quentin Tarantino's World War II Fantasy, to keep this phrase in your head as you watch the movie unfold. This is not Saving Private Ryan. It's not even The...
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Number of comments: 1 It was a big week. Thus...we dance! (That fellow in the background does an interesting Kid N' Play/The Final Scene of The Blair Witch Project Combo.)
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Number of comments: 6 In what has become a sign that the college transition process has started (is it earlier and earlier?), Beloit College has released their annual Mindset List - an assemblage of "observations that help to identify the experiences that have shaped...
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Number of comments: 5 While others in the DadCentric crew are only just now entering the strange and terrifying world of public school, I'm proud to say that my son - TheHurricane - is a proud Kindergarten survivor, and in about two weeks he'll...
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Number of comments: 15 I've been drinking all afternoon and I'm lonely. My family has been gone for some time without me and they aren't returning anytime soon. I've been drinking all afternoon and I'm thirsty. I've had enough beer and pizza and random...
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Number of comments: 16 If you missed part I or don't remember what the hell happened, click upon this very text that you are reading right this very second so you can go check it out. Otherwise, the images below won't make any sense!...
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Number of comments: 2 A while back, writer Christopher Noxon (we reviewed his book Rejuvenile here) called me about a piece he was writing, an article for Details magazine about the idea of being jealous of one's child. The article's out, and it's definitely...
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Number of comments: 6 Full disclosure: I spent my 20s in Minneapolis, and loved rooting for the Packers to tweak my friends and colleagues. Church was usually canceled when the Vikings played the Pack, and whether you wore a block of cheese or blond...
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Number of comments: 12 A few nights ago, before his first day of kindergarten. Lucas and I sit on the couch looking through the pages of his big astronomy book. It's a massive tome entitled Universe, and true to the title, it's about everything...
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Number of comments: 9 Apparently, there's been quite the firestorm with regard to Bebe Gloton - the breast-feeding baby doll manufactured in Spain. Bebe Gloton - "greedy baby" or "baby glutton" or "hungry mouth to feed" (your translations may vary) - allows girls to...
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Number of comments: 11 Matt comes to us from Washington DC, where he chronicles his life as a father in the nation's Capitol at the aptly named DC Urban Dad. I should have been an actor. Oh wait a minute, I was for a...
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Number of comments: 18 cIII is...well, just read this and you'll have a pretty good idea. He writes about being a dad at The Goat and Tater, and writes about travel at UpTake, where if you're curious you can learn his real name. Greetings...
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Number of comments: 6 When he's not drinking beer professionally - you think I'm kidding? He's Managing Editor for All About Beer magazine - Greg Barbera can be found blogging over at his personal site, The Chest Pains. For several years now my 9-year-old...
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Number of comments: 15 Special Guest Dad Daniel Hughes comes to us from across the pond, where he's kind of a big deal - his excellent blog, All That Comes With It, is widely known in the Brit-o-blog-o-sphere. Along with his personal blog, he's...
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Number of comments: 15 Our first Special Guest Dad is known to his Twitter followers as Tysdaddy; the dad-o-sphere knows him as Brian, and he can be found at his funny and insightful blog The Cheek of God. The difficulty in life is the...
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Number of comments: 15 As we round the corner into autumn, things begin to turn...autumnal. Kids go back to school, leaves wither and fall, and there's a hint of wintery chill in the air. In my house and car, the shiny happy songs of...
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Number of comments: 1 Summer is rapidly drawing to a close. This time next Monday, Lucas will be two hours in to his first day of kindergarten. We have prepared him as best we can: be nice to your classmates, listen to your teacher,...
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Number of comments: 14 John Hughes is dead. Yeah. Walking in Central Park. Heart attack. Dead. Age 59. I don't like the 50s deaths. Even the 60s make me woozy. People ought to die in their 70s or 80s. The people in their 90s?...
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Number of comments: 2 I think we all tried something like this as kids. I'm pretty sure that you can get everything you need to replicate this amazing, possibly CGI'ed feat at your local Wal-Mart. Megawoosh
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Number of comments: 23 Nutrition is for adults who are supposed to know better. Kids? Kids are stupid. They don't know that sugar and complex carbohydrates and sweet, sweet trans fats are tantamount to sticking a sharp stick in your eye. All they know...
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Number of comments: 19 I don't get a lot of private time. I've got two small kids and a wife with needs. I also have pets. And an image. The hours I have to myself are usually spent in the car running one errand...
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Number of comments: 16 Oodgie and I spent a few days looking at houses last weekend. Thirty five houses, to be exact. 35. In three days. I don't know if you've ever attempted such an endeavor. Perhaps you have. Perhaps not. All I know...
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Number of comments: 14 There's a scene in the movie Clerks where Dante and Randal are discussing the Quixotic dream of having the ability to suck one's own dick. In the film's fantastical world, it turns out that (SPOILER ALERT) such a thing is...
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Number of comments: 12 Here are some gems from my five year old son, all uttered over the course of the past few weeks. He is like the Buddha, or perhaps a pint-sized version of that guy in the Dos Equis ads. "If you...
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Number of comments: 3 Now this is a Barbie I think we can all get excited about. Created by Mario Caicedo Langer http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariocaicedolanger
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Number of comments: 11 Over the past couple of months my creativity had all but disappeared. After losing my job—a fact my wife and I kept very close to the vest—my desire to write felt more like a chore than anything enjoyable. I slogged...
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Number of comments: 8 I cannot help but think that it is all a terrible mistake. My children trust me. They trust me with all of the love and strength and confidence and joy and facile, "you're so silly" cynicism that their little hearts...
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Number of comments: 13 My boys like the complaining. Car rides are too long. Walking hurts legs. This Chateau LeBlanc is supposed to be served slightly chilled, not room temperature. They never want to go anywhere. Once they are there they never want to...
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Number of comments: 3 The experienced trekker believes in bad omens: mine were car-related. The Xterra needed a new catalytic convertor; oh, and the exhaust manifold has a leak, which means that the cabin might flood with carbon monoxide, which would cause us all...
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Number of comments: 13 With one frame left, all that stood between me and one truly amazing score were six pins and a crying 7-year-old. Not a memory I was aiming for when I decided to take advantage of our local bowling alley offering...
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Number of comments: 19 We passed a threshold tonight. Tonight, as is the biweekly custom in Castle TwoBusy, we bathed the offspring. They are grubby little creatures, and over the course of several days of digging in the dirt, slathering on sunscreen and feasting...
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Number of comments: 10 I almost made a huge blunder last night. Get this: I almost put the baby in the bathtub with his diaper still on. Can you believe that? Thankfully, I caught myself, and avoided making my first ever parenting mistake. As...
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Number of comments: 0 Disney Channel, today is the day I officially apologize. In the past, I have slagged you publicly and privately for your endless parade of crappy 'tween comedies that recycle the same stale material (your recent Wizards on Deck with Hannah...
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Number of comments: 8 Conundrum: what does one do when nice marketing folks offer you a day at a big amusement park, complete with a behind the scenes tour AND a free breakfast, in the hopes that you'll write nice things about their park...
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Number of comments: 2 Memory is a very tricky thing. What we remember and define as a memory is purely subjective. Are the events we recall actually those we have experienced in their exact detail or are they merely a series of connected images...
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