Only one of you kiddie music tolerating readers will receive in the mail my review copy of 76 Trombones, the new Dan Zanes and Friends album of (mostly) Broadway tunes. Is it ZenMom, who is looking for revenge against her...
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Number of comments: 10 "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: 15 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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