Daddy Types: October 2005 Archives

October 2005 Archives

October 31, 2005

Last Minute Change To The Kid's Halloween Costume

We had planned to go out to Grandma's in the suburbs for some dinner and token trick or treating, but halfway there, we gave up and turned around (DC traffic). The kid was going to go as Little Red Riding...
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Is Your Name Michael Diamond? Why, Yes, Yes It Is.

From downtown Manhattan, Tribeca. My style is wild, and you know that it still is. Stroller schlepping, and you�re doing the bump Shake your rumpFrom today's Gawker Stalker:I spotted Mike D of the Beastie Boys today (10/28) at 1:10pm on...
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This Is Your Child's Brain On Dancing Badgers. Any Questions?

"badgerbadgerbadger.com has had an absolutely mesmerizing effect on my son since early on. Even at 14 months it still captures his attention. He just sits there, entranced by the looped flash animation and song. I'm not sure if it will...
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Anti-Child Types: The Magazine Article For Non-Dads

It's been a while since Amy Sohn's flamethrowing column in NY Magazine singed anything around here. This week she has a short, sweet article about how hard dating is for people who know they don't want kids. One anti-kid woman...
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Pottery Barn Kids Girls & Boys

First, I need to apologize to J-Mo. I kind of flew off the toy vacuum handle in the comments when she posted about the cool red/silver Pottery Barn Kids toy vacuum. All I saw online was the pink/pink/pink vacuum, though....
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October 30, 2005

Seal Drives An I'Coo Pico 4!!!

I have to say, I've got nothing but respect for the man, his music, and his inspirational family ways. BUT. After seeing this picture on GTBaby.com, the home of the Rock Star Baby stroller, I can't go on pretending...
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Congratulations, Heath Ledger! [PS: Did You Get The Bag Clips?]

Seems that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams had their baby Friday evening in NYC, so congratulations all around. They named the kid Matilda Rose Ledger, which has Australian fans all excited because apparently "Waltzing Matilda" is "the unofficial song of...
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Dyson Who? Check Out This Toy Housekeeper Cart

Do you think letting your kid playing with a toy replica of a needlessly expensive, high-tech vacuum cleaner teaches the wrong, elitist/consumerist lessons? Well, what about this toy housekeeper's set, a wooden pushcart that comes complete with a broom &...
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October 29, 2005

Brussels Invaded By... Who?

Never before seen! That high-tech aluminum frame, all that rubber, that black thing protruding from it? If only that gas-detecting, video-surveillance robot wasn't in the way, we could get a clearer shot and see what kind of stroller that...
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October 28, 2005

Deep In The Hundred Acre Crystal Meth Lab

Yeow, read this one only after the kid's gone to sleep. It's a knee-slapping, cringe-inducing Winnie The Pooh, as reimagined by a South African columnist named Tom Eaton. Let me put it this way: Rabbit's side effects from the live...
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Volvo Baja Family Truckster

Volvo North America and Portland-based Volvo specialists IPD are going to debut the XC70 All Terrain concept car at the upcoming SEMA show in Las Vegas. Though it's based on a production model XC70, ipd has managed to squeeze 408hp...
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It's 10:01. Do You Know Where Your Wiggles Are?

Well, I thought they'd be on the Disney Channel, since it's where they are every other day. But no. The one day I decide to talk them up, build up a little excitement with the kid, the programming geniuses at...
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The Househusband's Tale (In The Guardian)

Jon Absalom decided to put his career on hold to take care of his kid--to become a househusband, a word like 'lorry' and 'arse,' which I hope stays over there. [Besides, it always reminds me of The Housemartins, why not...
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October 27, 2005

And In Other Exotic Stroller News...

You know about the discovery of Japanese Macplorys. But did you know... ...about Torck, a Belgian stroller maker whose Bayamo stroller has a wheel stance and rounded-square seat frame that looks just enough like a Dutch Bugaboo to make you...
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Children, Reviewed In The Believer

I wonder if little October Adelaide* Eggers Vida will get reviewed by her parents' magazine. So far, on its website, The Believer has published reviews of seven children, ranging in age from four to thirteen. Here is an excerpt from...
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Stroller-spotting On Flickr, Vol. 1?

Kid's still asleep, so I started surfing through the "stroller" tag on flickr. Here's a brief online exhibit [the photog's name is in brackets]. There were thousands of photos, but I just looked at a few hundred; add your...
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Xplory Has A Posse (In Japan)

While I've only seen a handful of Xplorys in the wild here in the US, they're apparently keeping babies out of range of car exhaust and wheeling up to cafe tables all over Japan. In the sidebar on the blog...
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October 26, 2005

Toy Dyson Vacuum Cleaner(s)

I know it's supposed to be the paradigm-breaking Vacuum Cleaner For Guys and all, the Bugaboo of vacuum cleaners, but until they make one that isn't Barney-colored, I don't think I'll be seeing a Dyson vacuum cleaner sucking up...
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Pez MP3 Player Looks Sweet As Candy

Phillip at Make has taken delivery of one of the first Pez MP3 players, dreamed up and brought into reality by a SAHD named Pat Misterovich. There's not a full performance review yet, but Phillip has posted tons of photos,...
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Hand-Knit DNA Model

You want evolution to make your kid's brain smarter? Forget the pack of British Velcro blocks; get someone to knit him a DNA molecule to play with. Kimberly Chapman has the complete how-to [complete except for, "how do I buy...
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Costco To Parents: Wipe THIS

First the Pampers get replaced with some sand-filled Kirkland private label diapers. Then they reformulate what were once THE best diaper wipes around, bar none, and turn them into flimsy, pull-apart-able, "Cotton Enhanced" [damn you, cotton industrial complex lobbyists!] pieces...
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Japanese Stroller Mashup: Xplory Footmuff In A Maclaren

Having a Stokke Xplory in your house must just get the innovative juices flowing, because, as two Japanese moms discovered (independently and simultaneously as far as I'm concerned; I don't want to get dragged into the middle of any...
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NYT Restaurant Critic Slits Ninja's Throat

Yeow. Frank Bruni's review of Ninja New York, a ridiculous-sounding, outrageously priced branch of a Tokyo theme restaurant, is more entertaining than a hundred ninjas sword-fighting their way into a fake volcano lair, but the only reason I'm mentioning it...
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Celebrity Babies [Heart] The Amby Baby Hammock

"The boy has now slept through the night two nights in a row!" It's the kind of news a new parent wants to post on his blog, which is what Chad did at The Little Man. One thing that might've...
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Dad Type: Caging Children 'Next Hot Trend'

Because with endorsements like this, the stock price will be going THRU DA ROOF! Dad: Caging Children 'Necessary' [foxnews via Ivan] Actually, read the original Cleveland Plain Dealer piece is slightly more sympathetic and even more depressing. These feeble-minded people...
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October 25, 2005

She Asked For It

From the comments on Geraldo's alleged Bugaboogering:Sound off on BIG strollers (LA's South Bay) Tell me what you think of the pricey ($700), supersize of strollers these days. With names like Bugaboos and Stokke Xplorys - some are calling them...
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SAHD Seduced By Mazda M5....Minivan

When his kid was born, Jeff Sabatini ge gave up his Miata, his motorcycle--and his job, because his wife makes more than he did. So who's he left with? Besides the kid, I mean? His Mazda M5 space wagon, er,...
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First Comes Wine, Then Comes The Baby

I forgot to post this last week--and judging from the press releases, Whole Foods apparently doesn't want dads to know anything about it--but the Whole Foods at NYC's Columbus Circle has a big sign announcing a Whole Baby store will...
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If You Smoked More, Maybe You Wouldn't Be At This Website Now

According to a recent study by researchers at SUNY-Buffalo, the sperm of men who smoke are weaker and have a harder time breaking through the egg's protective outer layer, called the zona. These smoked, weak-tailed sperm are "up to 75%...
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Pockets of Learning Replaceable Noah's Ark

Grandma just got the kid this little Noah's ark set from a company called Pockets of Learning. It's not flooding the world with excruciating hand-made craftsmanship--most of the designs are printed onto the polyester fabric pieces, which are then machine...
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Embroidered Swedish Rocking Chair

Because, what with the crocheted Yoda hats and hand-knit robots and such, it's apparently handicrafts week on Daddy Types [is it too much to ask to be cc'ed on these memos, people?], here is a contemporary Swedish rocking chair...
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Phil & Teds & Jon & Stewart

Check this out. It is important to know that Marjorie, the DT reader who sent this in, was into Phil & Ted's waaaay before Jon Stewart made them cool:a fellow phil & ted owner in downtown manhattan reports being stopped...
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CUT! Study Shows Circumcision Reduces HIV Infection Rate By 61%

It may look like the folks at the Guardian took a few months to read and digest that Wall Street Journal article about the African study showing significant reductions in HIV infections among men who were circumcized. But the Guardian...
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Jon State, Stewart State, Red State, Blue State

"The red/blue state schism is far less severe than the schism between 'with kids' and 'without kids'...because you are now protecting someone." - Jon Stewart doing audience Q&A after a standup at George Washington University last weeekend, as reported in...
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Stroller Smackdown: Daddy Typed For Slate

My years of fawning over Ann Hulbert's writing has finally paid off. Slate has published the first chapter of my dissertation on stroller-buying. It's about 10,000 words, and--I hope you're sitting down for this--less than half of them are "Bugaboo."...
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Buy A Gorillaluce And Save The Gorillas A Little Bit

It's true that no other gorilla lamp company donates 5% of their sales to wild gorilla conservation organizations, so I don't want to sound like a whiner. But if gorilla-saving is really your priority and not just a feel-good sales/publicity...
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CreAtiles Spur Evolution Through Hours Of Intelligent Design

CreAtiles are big, soft, yet rigid panels and pieces that fasten together in a variety of ways to make a house, a boat, whatever. More importantly, and despite what their name might imply, they make your kid a WINNER in...
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BabyCage

It's really self-explanatory: the Internet's one-stop shop for all your baby caging needs. BabyCage.net via metrodad Previously: Atelier Van Lieshout's 'Bad Furniture' Crib...
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More Gas Masks For Kids

I mentioned an infant gas pup tent (as opposed to a gas mask) which is in the MoMA exhibit "Safe." [That tent has been replaced by a half-body gas hood get-up that allows you to change or feed a kid...
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October 24, 2005

Daddy Type T-shirt-spotting, Or Putting the Papa in Paparazzi

Celebrity (new) dad Peldi of Patata Monkey shows he knows how to represent. And how to get a totally gratuitous link from me. With this totally unstaged street photograph of him pushing a Bugaboo and wearing an official 'daddy type'...
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Marx Imagination Doll House, You Complete Me.

You remember how I found that one random ebay link to a Marx Imagination doll house from the 1960's that was still sealed in its original box? Well, that bad boy went for $380. Yay, Marxism! If that seems a...
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Stokke Kinderzeat: No Fat Chicks?

Regular readers of this weblog will know of my love for the Stokke Kinderzeat. And if you're new here, I'll tell you now: we have it, and we love it. Except that we've never been able to figure out how...
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Vida Venit, Vicit! Congratulations, Dave Eggers

And wife Vendela Vida on the birth of their daughter October Adelaide* Eggers Vida. Anyone else out there transpose and give the kid his wife's last name? Anyone else out there name the kid after the month in which she...
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The Kid Knows What Really Counts

So yesterday, as we were in the kitchen making dinner, the kid goes over to my stash of 2-liter Diet Coke bottles on the bottom shelf of a worktable and proceeds to count them off, "1-2-3-4-5-6-7," as my wife and...
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Someone Needs To Take A Time Out. In A Nest High Chair

So what did you do this weekend, you ask? Oh, the usual, a visit with Grandma, the gym, church, wading through a steaming swamp of emails about one dad's "dissatisfaction" with a defective tray for his space age-y Nest high...
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Congratulations, James Joyce. Now About The Manbreasts...

The latest installment of Lens Observance, the NY Times' "picture = 1,000 words" feature, is of 32-year old James Joyce [please, people, let's leave the man in peace; I'm sure he's heard them all by now.], who's beaming at the...
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Your Bugaboo? How Much For Your Bugaboo?

I hear people say all the time that high resale value is one reason they bought a Bugaboo. But then, I never hear of anyone actually selling. So I took a quick tour of craigslist to see what a good...
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October 23, 2005

Speed Bubs: Australia Kicks US Butt In Baby Running-Over

According to Kids and Cars, a child safety advocacy organization, the number of children killed by having a car back over them has nearly tripled since 1999, from 66 fatalities to 165 in 2004 (and 83 in the first half...
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Kleemann E50KCC: Danish For Pimp My Mercedes Wagon

The 2-inch lift kit and the flared wheelwells on the Kleemann E50KCC answer the question of what'd result if a Mercedes got knocked up by the Audi Allroad she met in that youth hostel in Copenhagen. Of course, if...
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Treehouses & Tree Blocks - Made From Trees

To be honest, I never pegged those cookie-baking elves as straight, but an outfit in Santa Barbara is selling "Wooden Tree Houses Straight from Nature, Made by Elves." They're made from wood gathered from orchards and managed forests using sustainable...
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Some Nursery Candy From CribCandy

Unlike some blogs who type on and on and on about some cool design or other [umm...], CribCandy knows when a picture is enough. Or when a picture and a link are enough. There's a continuous stream of sweet...
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October 22, 2005

London Architect Dad Builds Eco-, Kid-Friendly Dreamhouse Undergroud

Minimalist architect Alex Michaelis first made news when he bought a 4,000-sf vacant lot in London for �750,000. (Apparently, several centuries of concentrated building tends to deplete a city's supply of vacant lots.) Then, because local zoning boards restricted him...
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Muji Dork Pajamas

If there's a bigger Muji fan on this continent (hey, Canada!), I haven't met him, but the pajamas we got for the kid in Japan over the summer are the dorkiest dork-jamas in the world. Or at least they're meant...
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Too Many Strollers In Art Galleries These Days?

Then this post is for you. The art world is so awesome. I love/hate it:I head to the after-party at Hiro, where I'm told that I've just missed what a colleague describes as "a classic Helene Winer moment." Winer, who...
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BBC Looking For Sperm-Cam Volunteers

"Every sperm is...a chance for you to be on British TV!" Producers for the BBC apparently want to watch your attempts to make a baby:NEW BBC SERIES Thinking about having a baby? We are looking for couples to take part...
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October 21, 2005

Electronic Toy Design Class Weblog

A Parsons class for electronic toy designers has a weblog. Whether you want to source odd, cheap motors or you entertain fantasies of tearing that chattering Furby limb from electronic limb, it's definitely worth a look:Boohbah is the second...
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Hand-Painted Nursery Seuss-scape

Sorry if Myke's R2D2 Onesie iron-on show up a bit late for you; he and his wife and their crew were just too busy freehanding an awesome Dr. Seuss nursery for the kid-to-come. You know how it is. And...
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DIY R2D2 Onesie

I guess this third Star Wars post in a row is where I announce that there will be three sequels, and after all that, when I'm as rich and lazy as Jabba the Hut, three prequels designed to hoover every...
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Star Wars Baby Blanket

Search the message boards of the DIY site Craftster.org for "Star Wars" and approximately 100% of the posts you find will include some variation on the phrase, "Ack! My [husband/bf] would LOVE this!" [emoticons and several dozen exclamation points...
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Yoda Baby Hat? Stop Typing & Start Crocheting

I want to see Yoda hats on every tiny head within spitting distance of this website. Got it? Good. Now get going. Halloween costumes: Star Wars [crafster via bloggingbaby]...
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October 20, 2005

Pimp Thy Stroller

I think we may have uncovered the reason the West Coasters of L.A. Rush went with the lame, faux British "Pimp My Pushchair." Because "Pimp My Stroller" was already taken by the East Coast crew Rhett and Link, who Crusade...
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Rumors Of Apple-Cam Greatly Exaggerated

So a British gossip site kicks of its shocking article this way:Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly carries high-tech monitoring equipment wherever she goes - so she can keep an eye on her baby daughter at all times. The Oscar-winning beauty totes...
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Oilily Sample Sale Today/Tomorrow in NYC

Because I crack up at the idea of a couple hundred guys fighting over a pile of hot pink embroidered, pom-pom-laden vests [and that's just for the boys. ba-dum-bum] and because, when you get right down to it, who doesn't...
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Pimp My Pushchair? Sure, But First A Spot Of Tea

"It ain't the buggy, it's the driver." That's how our hero, little Trikz explains his cheap-ass umbrella stroller to Lidell, who's just pulled up next to him in a, well, I guess it's supposed to be a streetracing stroller so...
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Seal A Father's Job Is Doing

The first pictures of Seal and Heidi Klum's kid Henry were published in a German-language edition of InTouch magazine. [Coincidentally, our kid looked like a little old man when she was born, too. If we'd stuck to our "let's meet...
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October 19, 2005

Swedish Baby Given Google-Proof Name: Google

Actually, Google is his middle name. He's Lebanese/Swedish, and his dad--a PhD candidate in search engine marketing research--started a blog for him. On Blogspot, of course. GoogleKai.blogspot.com [via bloggingbaby] Previously: Google Onesie [sic], Google-proof your baby...
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Rhymes With Nooners: The Babymooners

So W Hotels in NYC are offering a BabyMe package for couples who are ready to pop, and just want to get away for a few days of R&R before the baby comes. The special includes: a "fashionable SkipHop Duo...
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Indiana Man Leaves 4-mo In Car, But Can Explain

So a dad from Michigan City, Indiana, William Kersey, borrows a car, which is reported abandoned on a Chesteron cul de sac Saturday night, 'round 11, with the door open, the dome light on, and a 4-month-old baby inside. Two...
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New (Step)Dad Kutcher's New Sitcom: "30-Year-Old Grandpa"

Where DO these kids get these wacky ideas? Variety and the LA Times report that Ashton Kutcher has sold Fox on the pilot for his new sitcom, "30-year-old Grandpa," about a guy who becomes the stepfather to "a brood...
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Zahara: The Movie Coming Already?

Well, little miss Jolie doesn't waste any time. From the orphanage to a development deal to theaters in time for Thanksgiving? Day-um. Just got an email from Urbanbaby announcing that Zahara opens in theaters Nov. 11. Let me just say,...
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October 18, 2005

Trendwatch: The Young Families [Heart] The Volvos

I swear, it's not just because we live here, but I'm coming to the conclusion that our DC neighborhood is the epicenter of yuppie parenting trends. I mean, both Ann "Raising America" Hulbert and Judith "Perfect Madness" Warner live around...
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FLASH: David Copperfield To Impregnate Girl

Of course, that his plan involves not having sex with her and not even touching her is news to no one. Apparently, he first perfected this positively mystifying no-sex, no-touch technique during his years-long engagement to Claudia Schiffer. David...
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Little Patriots Diapers: These Colors Don't Leak

If you watched the debut of Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, which followed The Daily Show last night, I know what question is burning at your soul: Where can I get me some of those sweet, sweet American Flag disposable...
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Flobberdewotsky: It's Dutch For "Trippy Kid's Clothing"

What is it with Holland, the dark winters? The North Sea? Backlash to that stern Protestant sobriety? Because they sure love their dressing their kids up as expensive ragamuffins with more-is-more, pattern-on-pattern, the-brighter-the-better clothing. [there goes my hyphen quota for...
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Shut Your SIDS Trap, The Kid's Asleep (On Her Stomach)

The NYT reports that some parents are taking in all the SIDS prevention advice and theories that pediatricians put out, examining it, recognizing the still-unclear understanding of the causes of SIDS--and letting their kids sleep on their stomachs sometimes. Because,...
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Too Quiet Around Here? Then Let Me Mention This Down Syndrome Abortion Editorial

Obviously, I'm just not going to the right dinner parties. Because I've never heard anyone pronounce a parent's "moral obligation" to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal testing reveals a likelihood of disability. The Washington Post's Patricia Bauer has, and the...
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October 17, 2005

JetBlue: Go Ahead, Everyone's Doing It

JetBlue is running this ad on the street around NYC, touting the sedative effects of parking your kid in front of his own, personal TV screen for a few hours. Related: Do you use the electronic babysitter? [bloggingbaby.com] Tips...
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Tips For Talking To Your Canadian Baby

CanadianLiving.com has some useful, basic info on how the way you talk to your infant helps him develop his language skills. The article includes tips like waiting for a reply, being descriptive of the kid's surroundings, and watching for early...
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Other Daddies Typing, vol. 4

First, apologies for being slow with the ODT, but I had to wade through my 1-week backlog [198 posts (!!)] from the new blogajillionaires at BloggingBaby.com. Seriously, people, aren't you due for some slacking off, or hasn't that fat AOL...
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URGENT: Do You Have A WhyCry Crying Analyzer?

Email me ASAP. A legend, a giant, a mighty mogul of the talk/information television industry* needs a WhyCry for a show ASAP, and the factory in Spain or wherever has dropped the ball. If you can bear to part with...
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October 16, 2005

Gozo Jogging Stroller: How Goes It?

My now-largely sedentary life has more benefits--easy access to Google, Aeron chairs, don't need a cordless phone, um, a new-found appreciation of elastic waist pants--than drawbacks. In fact, the only downside I can think of is my general ignorance and...
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So I Can Deduct Preschool Tuition As A Business Expense?

The newest world of business networking is therefore not the golf course, the power breakfast or the alumni reunion. It is the schoolhouse. As much as country clubs once did, schools - especially private day schools - are bringing together...
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Williamsburg Hearts The Kids, The Real Estate, The Ikea

When they ecided to settle down in 2002, Wellington Fan and Jennifer Dalton were determined to prove their love of Williamsburg was stronger than--pick your poison--insufferable hipsters, encroaching bankers, or toxic sludge. So they bought an 1,100-sf post-war rowhouse...
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October 15, 2005

Cruise: Scary Baby

Did I already pledge to expand the Britney-fetus ban to Tom Cruise? Well, then this just happens to be a post about the Scientological doctrine of 'silent birth,' where the labor, delivery and the baby's first 24 hours are supposed...
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Amish Trendwatch: Polio=Hot, Vaccinations=Not

Four children in a Minnesota Amish community have contracted polio, the first cases in the US in 26 years. How the virus shows up is still not clear, but it's apparently related to the live-but-weakened virus used in oral polio...
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October 14, 2005

Where Are The Mr. Hankey Costumes?

Haven't given a lot of thought to the kid's Halloween plans yet, but one thing's for sure: she's not gonna have some "top ten" costume. One list on Blogging Baby--"Darth Vader, Batman, the Fantastic Four, Harry Potter, and Dora...
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This Is The Way We Wash Our Brain

Last year, the grandparents brought the kid a giant musical book back from London, a Peter Rabbit/Beatrix Potter collection of classical nursery rhymes. Of course, for some of these, "classical" means, "if you didn't survive The Blitz, you've never...
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Meanwhile, In Mr. Kate Moss News,

Kate Moss's baby daddy Jefferson Hack is apparently taking care of the kid (Lila Grace just turned three while Mom's been in rehab) and seeking sole custody. A media guy himself (he co-founded Dazed & Confused magazine), when Page Six...
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Bugabusted On The Subway

So we've been mostly in the Cameleon these days (it's the only stroller we have in NYC at the moment), and I love it. More later, when I get some breathing/writing room, but I had a problem I've never even...
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So It's Good Cop/Bad Cop In The Ritchie House?

Guess which one Madonna is. Madonna talks of her mission to be "part of the solution" by imparting her parenting wisdom to some British fashion magazine. Save your shillings, though, because the Daily Telegraph's Neil Tweedie [yes] has graciously mocked...
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Is This An Ikea High Chair?

The current issue of Dwell has a photo of French designer Matali Crasset's studio/home. Front and center is this red plastic and tubular steel high chair. I think I recognize that buckle from our Antilop chair. I still like...
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MoMA's "Safe" For Kids

MoMA's new exhibition, "SAFE: Design Takes On Risk," looks at over 300 products and concepts for addressing stress, protection, preparedness, anda sense of security. I've already posted a couple of things that show up in the show--the Stokke Xplory and...
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October 13, 2005

Handknit Robots

I think I read somewhere that all the snowboarding kids are crocheting these days, making their own hats and stuff. Now unless crocheting and knitting don't mix--like how racquetball messes up your tennis game--all you crocheters can probably just look...
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What's Up With This Playmobil Security Check-In?

First things first: Playmobil is not intended for children under 3; you know how full of terrorists those nursing lounges and subway strollers are, and you it'd be downright un-American to help them plan out their little security-evading scenarios....
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Dad-To-Be Graduates From Rocking Chair U. With A Month To Spare

New dad (as of Sept., congrats!) Gregg Homstad took the rocking chair thing seriously, very seriously: he handmade a museum-quality rocker himself using the instructions and plans from Rocking Chair University [no kidding]. See, master woodworker and rocking chair guru...
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Mickey Who? Get The Kid A Pez MP3 Player Instead

Earlier this year, Pat Misterovich, an at-home-dad in Missouri, thought it'd be sweet if he could make an MP3 player out of a Pez dispenser. So he designed and licensed it, lined up a manufacturer, and--voila--now he's taking orders. Delivery's...
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The Modern, 11 West 53rd St - NO

The restaurant at MoMA has famously confusing-for-some* individual, unisex bathrooms surrounding a common sink-filled lobby. No counters anywhere at all; and only the large wheelchair-accessible bathrooms would have floorspace enough. *some who haven't been to Pastis, Europe, or a college...
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American Museum Of Natural History - 81st St & Central Park West - YES

The 1st Floor restroom in the Rose Center/Hayden Planetarium is in the southwest corner, behind the elevators. On a side note, the signage in that museum is maddening, ridiculous. Veteran visitors thread their way through lost, baffled, shuffling newbies. My...
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October 12, 2005

I Didn't Know There Were Any J-People In Arkansas

I thought they were all in NYC and San Francisco. At least that's where the two J-families WE know live. But congratulations to Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar down near Little Rock, who just had their 16th kid, a girl,...
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Flying Solo: This Non-Post Will Be Replaced With Real Content Later.

Sorry, been kinda hectic, and with the wife in Japan for the week, I've been kinda swamped; I'll get a flurry of posts up tonight, I expect. In the mean time, do you have any strong opinions about: cloth vs...
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What's It Gonna Take To Get You Into This 128Mb MP3 Player?

Howsabout I Throw In A Mouse? Kids are small, and the capacity of their MP3 players should be, too. That's the reasoning behind Disney's new Mix Stick series, small USB- and SD/MMC card-enabled MP3/WMA players designed for kids. They're $50...
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Ooh. Camo Cashmere Baby Blanket From Scotland

Used to be when the best cashmere--practically the only cashmere, for that matter--was from Scotland. Well, those days may be coming back, thanks in part to Papa Stour, an online boutique of products by contemporary Scottish artists and artisans. The...
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October 11, 2005

Diaper Free & Psychically Scarred? Blame The Media

There is something in the air, and it ain't the smell of diapers. The NY Times has an op-ed from Prof. Meredith Small about going diaper-free. She boldly confronts the true source of the hypothetical psychological trauma that EC kids...
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Baby Bottom Fan: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This??

What are the odds that a single company has the absolute best solutions for both blowing your kid's butt dry AND delivering the right aromatherapy formulation for "bring[ing] sweet dreams" and "a peaceful transition from little dynamo to sleeping angel?"...
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Attention, All Celebrity Assistants:

No matter what the publicists may tell you, the re-gifting of PeePee TeePees is NOT--I repeat, NOT--an acceptable practice. Celebrity Gift Guide! [nymag via gawker] Previously: hee hee pee pee teepee...
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Celebrity Baby Has Big Box Of Crayons, ASD

The kid doesn't have crayons; because they make me nervous. The table, the walls, the art, I see the kid having a blast playing with crayons, and I don't think "Awwww, maybe she'll be an artist someday. Let's put these...
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"Dad's Bad Ass Minivan"

As the saying goes, you can take the dad out of Southern Alabama, &c. &c. Illinois dad Paul Smith has four sons and some steps, and between that, the two jobs, and all the drag racing he does in his...
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Hilarious And Yet Not: Avian Flu Romper

DT reader Chaz sent this in, from the Avian Flu Blog [who knew? not me, obviously. Not-a-freak Guy emailed to say that he's not Avian Flu Blog Guy. But seriously, with a pandemic breathing down our necks, who has time...
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October 10, 2005

The Daddy Types Baby Tattoo Design Contest

A company's selling "If lost, please call " temporary tattoos for kids, but they still require you to write your phone number on there with a marker. Set aside the lost&found strategy questions of tattoing vs. labeling vs. stuffing a...
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"If Found, Call This Number" Temporary Tattoos

So the idea behind Tattoos With A Purpose is that they're an unlosable, unobtrusive way to attach your emergency contact information to a kid. Like any other temporary tattoo, TWAP's go on in seconds and last up to 7 days....
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Philippe Starck Maclaren: The First Online Photos

Finally, the first online photos of Philippe Starck's stroller and changing bag for Maclaren have surfaced. The snap judgment: not a jaw-dropping surprise, but worth a closer look. The Starck Maclaren won the Innovation Award in last month's giant Kind...
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The Walk-O-Long, (Formerly Known As The Not-A-Leash)

The Walk-O-Long was invented by a dad whose daughter started to walk right after he had back surgery. Seems her arms were shorter than the average gibbon (aka human-length), and holding her hands meant bending over in a way that...
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And The Kid'll Have The Massaman Beef Curry

The traditional first solid food for Japanese babies is rice, not rice cereal. They cook it with milk to make it softer, and then gradually thicken it up. By a year or so, kids are eating straight rice. Of course,...
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Open House (In More Ways Than One)

Remember that architect's dream home, the West Village penthouse with the subway doors in the kitchen and the glass-and-steel flying staircase? The one where the architect and his wife had twins soon after completing their 7-year-or-whatever renovation? Well, not only...
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And In Other Sucking News: Pacifiers May Prevent SIDS

A woman stopped me on the street today to tell me that pacifiers may prevent SIDS. Literally. Of course, she only told me after testing my parental knowledge of SIDS prevention on-camera. She was from ABC News, and the Kid...
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Apprentice Dad Skips Birth To Suck Up To Martha Stewart

Here's the scenario: You run a small ad agency in Philadelphia. Your kid's 5. You're wife's pregnant. You apply to be on The Apprentice with the recently-released-from-prison Martha Stewart. Then you audition. Then you audition again. Then you make the...
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Wodeo Season! Infant Western Wear Season! Wodeo Season!

As PBR returns to the OLN--the 2006 Pro Bull Riding World Cup Final is early this year, Nov. 3-6, tickets go on sale next week--a man's heart turns to dressing his child up like a cowboy. Or at least it...
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October 9, 2005

Registry Advice For Buy Buy Baby Meltdown Survivors?

A pregnant New York friend emailed today seeking advice/suggestions about good registry options "for everything from a Bjorn to a cute playmat to bibs to the Dwell sheets to who knows what else?" Oh, and layette. Grandma-to-be's suggesting Lester's, an...
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Sacrifice Tie

Greater love hath no man than this: that he give up his tie for his kid. In Sunday School this morning, I watched as a 5-month-old kid chewed away happily on her young dad's navy silk tie. "I sacrificed it...
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Tweety: Dutch Birdhouse/MP3 Player

Huh. Until five minutes ago, I didn't know I even wanted a limited-edition, Ferrari Red birdhouse/music box with an embedded MP3 player containing 10 hours of Dutch bird songs, and now I can't get one. Tweety by Henk Stallinga,...
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"Have You People Ever Heard Of Coasters??"

The kid's been playing with coasters since she was able to pull herself up on the coffee table. But in the last couple of weeks, she's been using them obsessively. Must have been that combination of learning the word [which...
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October 8, 2005

November 3rd: The First Million Dad March On Martha

Until today, Martha Stewart bugged the crap out of me only primarily for destroying one of my favorite houses [which also happened to be an important modernist masterpiece] through an arrogant, botched remodel. Now, though, I can get annoyed at...
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Who Knows? The Jack Whites Say They're Having A Kid

Who really knows what's what with Jack White? In the summer, the White Stripes website announced his "first marriage" to model Karen Elson, which apparently meant his "first marriage where his ex-wife Meg White was the maid of honor for."...
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Infant Potty Training: NYT Freaks Out, Brazelton Mellows

The NY Times discovered elimination communication today on the therapy-happy West Side--and promptly freaked out about it:For many parents in the United States, the idea of potty training before a baby is able to walk, or even before age 2,...
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Smurfed Up Beyond All Recognition

In an effort to raise money for Unicef's rehabilitation programs for ex-child soldiers, IMPS, the Belgian company controlled by the Smurf heirs, has authorized the creation of what amounts to a Smurf snuff film, which will start airing on Belgian...
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I Wonder, Is Stewie Becoming A Popular Name?

The baby hurls grenades and sets traps that keep missing the target. "Damn you, vile woman" has become his signature cry, and a T-shirt slogan for the series. The running joke plays on the idea of babies as mini-despots, awaiting...
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October 7, 2005

Bugaboo-hacking: The $99 Cameleon?

If you could make a Frog look convincingly like a Cameleon by dressing it up in a $99 fleece of your choosing, you could save $779. How's it look? Because it was so overcast today, my cameraphone pics didn't...
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An R-Class?? Um, Seal, Can I See You Over Here, Please?

Obsessed over Bugaboos And dollhouses Hunted Seal If Lindsay Lohan were to run me over in her Mercedes tomorrow, that'd be my epitaph. I'm not Jewish, but I think I'll be doing some serious repentance when Yom Kippur rolls...
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Mom-Kid Cares Wireless Leash? Dad Cares Not So Much

The best thing about the Mom-Kid Cares wireless child tracker is its cheap price ($US9.90) and its Hong Kong English descriptive text: Mom-Kid Cares Operation : # The transmitter can hook to the object (a Kid), and place the receiver...
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Stuff Yourself, Your Kid Full Of Newman's Own Alphabet Cookies

Wow, my wife brought these home last night, and I am POUNDING these things even faster than the kid is. Newman's Own Alphabet Cookies are organic, low in fat, low in sugar, taste great in a not overpowering way. They're...
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Lifehacker Learns French At Costco

After 8 years of staring at the bilingual packaging at Costco (bilingual so the company doesn't have to maintain entirely separate product inventories for the fine, fine folks in Canada, who like to keep their languages equal but separate), Lifehacker...
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Implant'em All, Let The OB Sort'em Out

The Wall Street Journal reports that, in IVF and even surrogacy treatments in the US, fertility clinics regularly ignore guidelines about multiple embryo implantations, resulting in far higher multiple births (and the increased risks and complications that go with it....
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Q: What Gift Would Impress You, Mr. VIP?

Here's the situation: You are a big swingin' D at the office; lots of direct reports, you have the CEO's ear on things that matter. You hold many peoples' livelihoods and professional fates in your hands. And yet, you're surprisingly...
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NYC Under Threat From Stroller-Pushing Terrorists?

If you see a menacing, Geraldo-looking guy pushing a stroller on the subway, CALL THE COPS IMMEDIATELY. IT IS NOT GERALDO. HE DOESN'T TAKE THE SUBWAY; HE HAS A BENTLEY AND A DRIVER. On the other hand, if you see...
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Art: Thomas Hirschhorn's Camo "Utopia, Utopia"

ICA Boston is currently hosting an installation by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn called "Utopia, Utopia." It's a sprawling overload of videos, objects, images, and texts about camouflage, and it sounds like an awesome visit. Hirschhorn constructs his works largely...
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Who Knew? The Jon Stewarts Are Having Another Kid

Not satisfied with controlling the TV and reprogramming the minds of today's youth, Jon Stewart is apparently plotting to fill the earth with people even shorter than himself. The unusually tall David Letterman, of all people, tricked Stewart into admitting...
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October 6, 2005

529 101: Where To Start Looking For College Savings Funds

Since 2002, state-sponsored 529 college savings plans have become a very popular way to invest money for a kid's future college education. As long as the proceeds are used to pay for college & secondary education expenses, 529's are federal...
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Foreign Language Alphabet Blocks

Showing why he earns the big blogging bucks, Jay points to Uncle Goose's basic wood letter blocks, American-made, but also available in ten non-English languages. Except for the occasional umlaut or accent aigue, a lot of the letters look suspiciously...
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Bay Area Man Catches Triplet In (Not A Daddy Type) T-Shirt

The excellently named Biko Eisen-Martin, a history teacher at Berkeley High School, saw a woman in pain at the entrance to the BART station, went to help her as everyone else passed by, and ended up delivering the first of...
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AOL Buys Daddy Blogger's Posts, &c. For $25 Million

25 million subscribers, ostensibly the most family-centric of all the big Internet companies, publisher of the biggest parenting magazine in the world, and yet you could fit all their dad-focused content in a Take & Toss cup, and even then...
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Meanwhile, Sir Paul Drives A, Well, A Stroller Of Some Kind

Right after the disastrous Geraldo Bugaboo sighting, another Gawker reported seeing Paul McCartney " pushing a stroller (with blond kid in it) down 57th St. across from Carnegie Hall" on Monday. [No brand/model mentioned? Come on, anonymous blog readers, what's...
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Umm, How Else Can I Put This? Geraldo Drives A Bugaboo

Some days you win, and some days you lose. And today, I have to admit it, the Bugaboo team lost:Tonight (10/4, good buddy) on a flight from Cleveland to Newark, saw a trim and relaxed Geraldo Rivera in coach(!) with...
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The Green Dollhouse Project

If somebody'd told me on Monday that this week was mod dollhouse week, I'da been all, "dollhouses? No way, dude, too many parts." Oh well. Sparkability Mark just added a link to The Green Dollhouse Project, a design competition/exhibition at...
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Another Sweet Creative Playthings Dollhouse

While DT reader Andy's waiting for the kid (six days overdue, no pressure!), he's also rounding up info on cleanly designed, wonderfully constructed, vintage Creative Playthings toys, like this two-story dollhouse, which was originally available with either finished or natural...
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Self Hating Zoos

We took an extended visit to the zoo yesterday (in DC) in lieu of the playground, and whoa, it was totally empty. Like no people at all. And while the kid was excited to see animals we usually don't--to...
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Danny Gregory On Impending Fatherhood

The latest installment of The Peanut Chronicle is out. The surprise baby shower didn't go well [Danny plays it down, but word to the wise on that one]. And they buy gear--big gear--but what struck me was this passage, which...
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October 5, 2005

"Cars You Still Can't Have" Update

Nissan is definitely bringing the next-gen Cube to the US. In 2008. [not 2007. Or 2006.] This story will be leaked every six months until your kids are in college. [autoweek via jalopnik] Spoiled by Priuses, treehugging Canadian anti-snobs...
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Celebrity Baby Has Sweet Mid-Century Modernist Dollhouse

Form follows function for DT reader Elizabeth's vintage modernist dollhouse, which her daughter Dorothy's now playing with: I have a really cool dollhouse that my grandfather got me over thirty years ago. I looked around online, but couldn�t find anything...
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At-Home Dads Multiplying Like Rabbits?

Rebel Dad, who's something of an expert on this kind of thing [statistics and government policy ARE the favorite sports in Washington, DC, after all] has parsed some Census Bureau statistics and is feeling pretty darn good. I'll let him...
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Zuckerman: Famous, Prick, Fires US News Staffers On Maternity Leave

God Bless America, land of the free-will employment. The country where media moguls can escape the profit-sapping oppression of governmentally mandated employment protection regimes in their home country, and where they can be totally at liberty to fire employees who...
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Sometimes You Just Gotta Say, WTF?

TomKat's Pregnant. Obviously, this didn't happen in Indiana. Tom & Katie Expecting A Baby [peoplemag via dt reader/torturer Lauren] [update: Gawker helpfully notes that both have DVD's coming out in a couple of weeks, too. There will be no more...
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Tricycles: Big Wheels In Disguise

With a single twist, this sweet Radio Flyer Twist Trike converts from a low-slung Big Wheel-like chopper to an honest-to-goodness tricycle. You may have to stare at it for a minute to figure out where to twist. #440 Twist...
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Austin Redneck Warms To Gay Dad Neighbors

Not a fan of the reality TV, but apparently ABC shot and canned a show called Welcome To The Neighborhood last year. The plot: Give a free McMansion to whoever pissed off the whitey white neighbors of an Austin, TX...
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And To Think That I Saw It At Yoyamart

Last weekend, I checked in at Yoyamart, the sweet, sweet kid-centric store in EMePa (East of Meatpacking District). The highlights, some of which are available on Yoyamart's online store, too, are below: - the smurftastic Bugaboo By limited edition stroller...
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Baby Peace Anti-Vietnam War Ad

In 1970 USC film student Randal Kleiser shot "Baby Peace," a one-minute ad to protest US involvement in the war in Vietnam. He got Jon Voight, fresh off of Midnight Cowboy, to do the father's voiceover. It kind of...
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Forget The Infant Dumpster. What You Want Is A Baby Box

Hey, I can admit when I'm wrong. The Infant Dumpster was a bad idea, and I shouldn't have called for its return. Did I say bad? How about suboptimal. Optimal would be a clean room, with a hotline for the...
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October 4, 2005

Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 4

Even though AJ has come up with a whole bunch of swanky, convenient, stylish, or fun options, when it comes right down to it, I have to side with the Simpsons: "This leash demeans us both." Still, his research...
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Hoosier Daddy?

I think I saw a stultifyingly didactic movie adaptation of this once, A Handmaid's Tale. I hear the book was fine, but totally implausible. Then I read a story about an Indiana legislator introducing a bill that would require a...
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On Losable (vs. Disposable) Cups, And On Losing The Bottle Altogether

We've recently gone off the bottle; we tried swapping out the kid's lunchtime bottle of milk for a lunchtime sippy cup of milk at about 12 months. Didn't go so well. The kid--who's been drinking water from cups for ages,...
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These Toys Stink. Literally.

I'd forgotten that the kid's Lamaze Multi-sensory Clutch Cube--a favorite toy--smelled like green apples. Maybe it doesn't matter; the kid loved it, and so did we. But what'd we know? We loved it because the kid loved it, and it...
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Strollers For Porsche Drivers

And all these years, you thought those license plate frames and stroller bumper stickers were just a joke. British DT reader Paula's vexing circumstance proves otherwise. Can anyone help her out with the info?Checking out this website, as the 'mummys'...
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"Jane, You Ignorant Slut."

Sure, I was asked to submit some writing samples like everyone else, and I'm glad to see that one of the funniest, smartest dad-bloggers out there got the gig instead. But Oxygen TV's new Oh Baby! Opinionated Parenting blog...
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Baby Legwarmers: Flashdance Or Diaper-Changing Nirvana?

For some of you, legwarmers may be too closely linked to formative teenage memories of Flashdance, water-soaked exotic dancers, and Jennifer Beals' jiggling body doubles to allow you to consider putting your own child in a pair of Baby...
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Prowess-less Biker? Try A Prowless Bike Seat

That numb sensation? That erectile dysfunction? That 70-80% drop in penile blood oxygen levels within 3 minutes of getting on the bike? That 28-year-old with the penile vascular system of a 60-year-old? At some point, serious cyclists who don't want...
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Remember That NYC Baby-Stabbing?

It gets better/worse. Turns out the stabber and his roommates in the mental home traded some words over--well, I'll let him explain:�Lately, they been getting on my nerves,� he said of �Oassie� and �Billy.� �They�d been hounding me to clean...
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Let Me Get Back To You On The Harvard Thing

Malcolm Gladwell writes about the oddball admissions policies put in place at Harvard and other Ivies in the early 20th century. They began emphasizing character and leadership potential, not just intellectual achievement. Easier to keep the Jews out that way....
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October 3, 2005

The 9-Tsubo House With Kids? [That's 320 sf, btw]

Having a kid in a 400-square foot apartment? That's nothing. In Japan, they've been designing houses for kids plural to fit on 320-sf lots since 1952--and loving it. A Japanese firm Commdesign has commissioned several architect/designers to create variations on...
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Bugaboo-Hacking: Bag Clips For The Cameleon

I've gotten several emails from people asking the same question about the Bugaboo Cameleon: "Is it true there aren't any bag clips? Cuz that'd be a dealbreaker for us." My short reply is "Relax, it's true, but not that bad."...
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Congratulations, Nicolas Cage! Actually, It's A Family Name

Did you know: - that before nearly ruining the filming of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Marlon Brando played Superman's father, Jor-El? - that Nicolas Cage's given name is Coppola? Nephew. - that Cage was once slated to play Superman...
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Salon Goes Stroller-crazy

So a new mom goes to her pediatrician's office in a "trendy neighborhood" in Manhattan, and everyone there has the same "trendy" stroller except her? The thing is expensive--$900--but they can afford it. She wonders if the money couldn't be...
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"I Got A $70,000 Minivan."

I was a too young 17, and trying hard to prove my post-punk North Carolina bona fides to all the so-cool Southern Californians at Brigham Young University. It was long after the Rat Pack, but long before Swingers when, on...
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NatGeo Watering Hole Cam Brings The Zoo To You

We happen to live a block from the zoo in both NYC and DC, so the kid's been going to see the animals a couple of times a week since she was like two weeks old. [Not to rag too...
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October 2, 2005

Danny Gregory Goes Shopping For The Peanut

In his serialized account of his wife's pregnancy, artist/writer Danny Gregory is closing in on the last few anxious weeks, which are full of gear-buying, surprise baby shower-organizing, L&D touring, and increasingly anxious anticipating:Time to get more paraphernalia. We visit...
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The DT Bestseller List 05Q3

Except for a couple dozen of you, most Daddy Types readers buy their Bugaboos elsewhere. But according to Amazon's quarterly report, a fair number of you did buy books, basics, and gear from here last quarter. You see, when you...
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October 1, 2005

And Here We Thought She Was Learning French

ure, on the 5th to 10th consecutive readings of Miss Spider's Birthday we have resorted to just saying the letters and letting the kid fill in the rest [I hope she remembers to use "ogle" and "mingle" during the pre-school...
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1987 300 TD: I Thought WE Had The Last Real Mercedes

Now I'm no workshop guy, but I surprised myself by burning an hour last night, totally transfixed by Hooptyrides, the weblog full of the insanely cool, warped, and fascinating projects of one Mister Jalopy of Southern California. [Yes, the...
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WWZD: What Would Zahara Do?

Coincidence?? Fox News Exclusive Friday: Angelina Jolie's kids--the most influential nippers in the world--singlehandedly launching hot trends in hairstyles, fashion, and third world adoption. Just look at this: Zahara has apparently turned the until-now utterly obscure "Baby Bjorn" into...
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