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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