Daddy Types: November 2005 Archives

November 2005 Archives

November 30, 2005

Jacqueline The Caribbean Nanny Lives In A Windowless Studio On 2

While I'm not ingratiating myself with many of my Upper East Side neighbors, I might as well point to this ad, which ran in Sunday's NYT Magazine. Its elitism is as transparently stupid as those Bridgemarket Food Emporium ads that...
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Berenstain Dies, Retrograde Bears Live On

RIP Stan Berenstain, although with a reported 260 million books in print, your throwback gender-stereotyped, put-upon, begrudgingly disinterested papa bear will live on for quite a while. Stan Berenstain Dies; Co-Creator of Books On Berenstain Bears [washpost]...
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Fresh From The Oven: Hot Push Present Suggestions

You think any old 4-carat diamond'll do for a push present? Maybe, just in case your wife thinks such a skating rink is a bit tacky, some selfless companies and designers out there want to help. Here's a very incomplete...
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The Push Present: Show Her You'd Impregnate Her All Over Again

OK, sorry to swamp Jason's lingerie buying guide with my somewhat skeptical take on "birth jewelry." I was wrong. Birth jewelry sounds like a lovely idea, a way to commemorate and celebrate the beauty--and hard work and sacrifice--of a woman...
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November 29, 2005

What To Get The New Mom For Christmas (&c.)

Let me tell ya, new dad, with this subject line-- "christmas, newborn, sexy nursing lingerie"--you're lucky your email got through at all. Since it did, and since it's a timely, worthwhile question, I'm throwing it out for suggestions. Here's the...
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Malkmus: Baby C'mon & Get In This Sling

Rock musician Stephen Malkmus may be a new dad, but that doesn't mean his new single "Baby C'mon," or its cool live-stop-action animated video, has anything to do with his own kid. Of course, depending on how you interpret the...
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Also On Flickr: A Unicyclist With A Stroller

I'm guessing he MacGyvered that handle extension and remote brake himself. The picture's from early June. I hope they're all right. Circus Dad by alwayscurious [flickr]...
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Pimped Out Graco With Decals, Ground Fx

Just found this picture on flickr of a Graco Quattro Tour that a dad pimped out for his son Max. Sure, the ground fx and the decals are the most immediately obvious mods, but check out the silver-painted wheels. And...
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Get Me Some Limited Edition Art Wallpaper NOW

Holy Moley. Maxalot has worked with a bunch of leading graphic designers from around the world to develop Exposif, a collection of limited-edition art wallpaper. It's custom-sized and custom-printed to fit your wall dimensions. And while more than a...
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Angelina Jolie Gets A Manny

Details are sketchy, but it looks like Angelina Jolie has hired a manny to take care of the kids while she's on humanitarian visits to earthquake victims in Pakistan and whatnot. [images via justjared] Related: The Manny FAQ...
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November 28, 2005

Hmm. Mad Audio Equipment For Dolls

Dad, music editor, and one of DT's earliest readers Tom Whitwell runs Music Thing, which is like Gizmodo for serious musicians. Except that for the last little while, he's added dolls to his target demo. Turns out there's a whole...
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Now On eBay: Community Playthings, Starck Trike

A couple of eBay finds, if you're doing some off-the-wall holiday shopping, near Denver, or both: There is a pretty decent-looking six-piece collection of vintage Community Playthings kitchen toys [well, five, plus one awesome phonebooth] in Aurora, near Denver....
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When I Was A Boy, The Porter Cat Was Black

Here's a photoset on flickr that tracks some of the interesting changes between the 1963 edition of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever and the 1991 re-issue. Just one example from the cover: the cat pushing the stroller is now...
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November 27, 2005

Flushable Australian gDiapers Threaten American Landfill Industry

Mention the vast Australian outback to an American, and two things come immediately to mind: "Bloomin' Onion," and "helluva place to toss a lot of disposable diapers." Oddly enough, Australians themselves don't see it that way, because there's been honest-to-goodness...
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The Very Licensing-Hungry Caterpillar

Grandma has this book, Trucks and Diggers: One to Ten : Counting from Caterpillar, which the kid LOVES. Turns out it's a part of a licensed series of Caterpillar-branded books that feature only official CAT equipment. They're obviously designed to...
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Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Fifth Avenue at 81st St - YES

In the large men's room across from the theater in the Egyptian Wing (on the way to the Temple of Dendur). But NOT in the mezzanine men's room in the SE staircase, and NOT in the 2nd floor men's room...
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November 24, 2005

Splitting The Rocks Of Traveling Ignorance

Yesterday on the way to Gram's house, I ran into many fellow members of my secret society, BODCCATA [aka Brotherhood of Dads Carrying Carseats At The Airport]. We didn't talk to each other, of course, not in public [It's part...
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November 22, 2005

Sweet Vintage Kids Trove Just Hit Ebay

DT reader Andy gave a heads up on a batch of sweet, sweet mid-century childrens' design and toy items he just put up for sale on ebay. The lots include two sets of kid-size Bertoia chairs and a vintage...
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PlushLula, Brazilian President Doll

Brazilian conceptual artist Raul Mourao has opened an exhibition called Luladepelucia, or PlushLula, at a Rio de Janeiro gallery called Lurixs. Along with some other works, the show features 100 limited edition plush versions of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio...
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Ryan Phillippe Drives A Maclaren!!!

So his kids--and their Maclaren Triumph--came to visit Ryan Phillippe while he's shooting a movie in Toronto. And apparently, Phillippe kept getting stopped by people asking for directions. To stores that sell milk in bags. The Phillippe family visits...
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Getting Your Kid Into The Right Kindergarten

Did I mention I'm thankful for NY Magazine? They take a break from their parenting snuff genre to do a long, remarkably sensible article on how parents should approach the private kindergarten admissions process in New York City. Well, it's...
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In Other Baby-Birthin' Data News

Just-released studies show that premature births were up 2% in 2004, due, researchers said, to the increased incidence of fertility treatments, which often result in multiple and/or pre-term births. Also up: C-sections. Some doctors say it's older women not wanting...
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November 21, 2005

Fetal & Embryonic Genetic Testing In The NYT

Two heavy articles in the NYT today on the uses of genetic testing in the earliest stages of conception and pregnancy: First, a report on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, or P.G.D., in which embryos from high-risk parents (e.g., older women, women...
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The Kid Can't Go To The Playground Because It's Raining

Or as she just put it, "The weather's sick."...
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Baby Head Drawer Knobs

I have approximately zero interest in most nursery knobs; frankly, I don't understand why they exist, other than to keep the nursery whimsical knob & pull industrial complex operating at full capacity. [And yes, circular reasoning is my point.] But...
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Things I'm Surprised I'm Thankful For: NY Magazine

1)The Look BookSometimes, when my husband works late, I�ll bring the girls over the next day. We do a feeding there in his office. He runs a hedge fund...Her hands were full, so I doubt she did little air quotes...
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November 20, 2005

Bald & Beautiful [& Belgian & Box-like]

I'm typing this in a beat up Martin Margiela t-shirt, so I definitely love me some Belgian designers, even when they name their company after one of the tackiest, most embarassing TV shows to ever be exported from the...
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November 19, 2005

TV No Likee The Children, Me No Likee The TV

I once knew a head writer for Melrose Place, and the loopier and more brazenly superficial the show's plot and character contortions became, the closer they got to how this crazywoman really saw the world. It's a realization that's stuck...
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Just Because Elvis Did It Doesn't Make It Cool

Whether it's a kid drowning in the tub in that split second when you go to answer the phone or the door, or a large-headed, top-heavy baby drowning in the toilet, the bathroom is the site of over 300 unnecessary...
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The Whole Foods [Chick] Lifestyle Store

Maybe the Santa Monica Whole Foods Lifestyle store--which, at 1,500sf is twice as big as the new NYC outpost at Columbus Center--filled all its extra space with guy stuff, who knows? But in the NYT, "Commander in Chief" actor Kyle...
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Baby, Don't Lose That Number: Fairfax Cryobank 401

The NYT has a fascinating, powerful story of Donor Sibling Registry, the online database for uniting sperm donors with their genetic offspring which has, in the mean time, been busy uniting the half-siblings. The mothers and half-sibs are generally keeping...
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"But I Did It For YOU!" For Real.

Mulling over Metrodad's post and comments the other day about paying the bills and/vs. pursuing your creative dreams reminded me of a show "This American Life" host Ira Glass did once about his father. Growing up, Ira knew his father,...
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Stroller = Local?

Matt Haughey reports from his trip to Toronto:- either I look Canadian or tourists see people with a big stroller and baby and assume I live here. I've never been asked for directions so many times in a strange town.This...
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November 18, 2005

The "What Is Clement Holding?" Contest, or Good Night Photoshoppers Everywhere:

When Scott "found" this image on the back cover of his kid's copy of Goodnight Moon, he inadvertently became the first entry in the Daddy Types "What is Clement Holding?" Photoshop contest. Let's keep them safe for work, but...
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Good Night, Cigarette

The NY Times thinks the big story here is that Harper Collins digitally removed the cigarette from the jacket cover photograph of Clement Hurd, the illustrator of Goodnight Moon. I think the real story is that the book sells 800,000...
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November 17, 2005

God Barney Is My Co-Pilot Teaching Assistant

We've started visiting pre-schools and daycare/pre-schools in the last couple of weeks, all with an eye to the spring/summer/fall when the kid will be old enough (2-2.5, depending on the program) to enroll. One place we visited yesterday morning seemed...
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Car Service In NYC With A Car Seat? Fuggedaboutit

Not including plus Carmel and Tel Aviv [666-6666 and 777-7777, respectively] I have at least ten NYC car service numbers lodged in brain. [Funny what a decade of late nights at the office and constant travel'll do to you.]...
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The Little Man Show

When DT reader Siobhan sent this clip to me [from work, no less--it's safe, if not entirely advisable, unless you work on a trading floor], it was titled "Children Shouldn't Sleep With Parents." In the link here, it's called "That's...
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Robeez Has A Giant Target On Its Back

[1/6/06 update: Sup? If you're looking for news and gear and stuff for dads who roll with their kids, you're in the right place. If you're looking for news about Daddy Yankee's new shoe deal with Reebok, that's cool, too,...
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Car Seats For Tall And/Or Skinny Babies

Here's a quick round-up of car seats people have mentioned in the discussion about what to car seat to get when your kid outgrows his infant carrier more quickly than you expected. Only a few seem to be useful for...
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There's Always That Danish Picture Book

My guess is, if you approach The Talk as "The Talk," you're already setting yourself up for failure. Wouldn't it be easier to tell a kid what a penis is while he's peeing on you during a diaper change? Potty...
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November 16, 2005

Q: How Long To Stick With The First Car Seat?

My 5-month-old son has outgrown his infant car seat. He's too long for it (though still OK by weight). Questions: a) Is it OK to keep him in it even though he's beyond the recommended size? b) What car seat...
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No, I Was Not Aware: Prematurity Awareness Day Was Nov. 15th

The way I see it, if I'm only a day behind Eric Snowdeal on being aware of Prematurity Awareness Day, then I'm still doing alright. Not great, but alright. Turns out Prematurity Awareness Day was yesterday. If you didn't know...
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The Kid's Joke: Funny Because True

So the kid tells this joke: Daddy: You're a little girl, and mommy is a big girl, and daddy is a big boy. The Kid: Mommy big girl. Daddy: That's right! The Kid: The Kid little girl. [yeahright, as if...
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Work To Live or Live To Work Or Work To Parent Or--

Metrodad Metrodad Metrodad. If you read blogs through their syndicated feeds in your newsreader or My Yahoo or whatever, you miss the comments. And that sucks, especially when they're as insightful as the ones on MD's post about the challenges...
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Park Slope: Raising Tiny Killer Lesbians Since 2001

From Overheard In New York: "Little girl: I'm tired of thinking about ponies! Now it's time to kill!" And the lesbians? Metrodad explains that one on Dadcentric in a little post he calls "Tykes & Dykes."...
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Sounds Like Someone Took That 'Zero Population' Module In Third Grade Seriously

Ahh, the 1970's. It took either 6,970 years [counting from Adam] or 3 million years [countiing from Paranthropus robustus] for human beings to develop a society advanced, self-aware, sophisticated, and free enough for an idiot like Les Knight to even...
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November 15, 2005

For The Honor Of Greyskull, What Were You Thinking?

There's a girl at our playground named She-Ra. Not sure how it's spelled, but that's definitely how it sounds. I don't know what else to say about this. She-Ra, Princess of Power [he-man.org, way too many live people in google...
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I'm A Bigger Neat Freak Than Gwyneth Paltrow??

So on Defamer today, I read how Gwyneth Paltrow is a "germophobe" because she " insists that visitors take off their shoes at her house, she sometimes won�t shake people�s hands, and she often asks people to use antibacterial soap...
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Little Marc: Marc Jacobs For Kids

Marc Jacobs took over my pants collection years ago, so I, for one, am stoked that he's finally making clothing for children. The collection, called Little Marc, is featured in the premiere issue of Cookie [yeah, I bought it; so...
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Art: Picasso's Stroller

Apparently, Bugaboo did not invent parent-facing strollers after all. Picasso did. This 1950 sculpture, Woman With Baby Carriage, is currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC....
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Ferber Comforts, Sears Lets Go: Sleeping Strategies Converge in WSJ

Can't we all just get along? And get some sleep? In the new editions to their advice books on getting newborns to sleep, experts on both ends of the spectrum have made some compromises and qualifications to the techniques they--and...
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Needed: Spare Womb For Brain

Haven't had time to read the story yet, but judging by the headline, it's either about how preemies face developmental challenges because their final weeks of gestation are spent out of the womb, OR it's an explanation of why men...
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And In More Nobody's Watching Martha Stewart News

Seeing her on The Daily Show last night and reading about how her Apprentice got cancelled--sure am glad I didn't skip the birth of my child to be on a tv show no one watched--I realized I never heard boo...
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Toy Cars For--For Hastening The Apocalypse, Really

Metrodad was surfing around Wal-Mart.com, [See? Even with the whole Dadcentric thing, he's still Metrodad from the block, people.] where he found this sweet and/or desperately wrong in so many ways Fisher-Price Power Wheels Cadillac Escalade [with "all the...
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Blurbs from the NYT Children's Book Review

So Istvan Banyai has a new book, The Other Side, again with the no words, that "whips the viewer into a fury of fast-paced looking." All three books about toddlers getting a new baby brother or sister get great reviews,...
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November 14, 2005

Talk To The Zebra

Saturday, the wife took the kid to the Zoo, where they kept running into a kid riding one of those tricycles-on-a-stick. I guess I forgot to tell my wife that [who knew?], the kid had developed an obsession with these...
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Rod Stewart's "A Little Vile"

It's enough to make you cancel cable. Penny Lancaster, the fiancee of ancient rocker Rod Stewart tells this story on a TV cooking show. On TV. On a show about food. Penny gave a waaay too detailed firsthand [sic]...
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The Coming LA Organic Baby Food Home Delivery Wars

Remember how there were two Christopher Columbus movies? And two Alexander the Great movies (unfortunately, Oliver Stone played psycho chicken and drove Baz Luhrman's project off the road)? And two Capote movies? [the second one's coming soon.] If Hot New...
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Saks To Be Ewe

Harper Collins has published Cashmere If You Can, a children's book about a Mongolian cashmere goat named Wawa Hohhot and his family who live on the roof of Saks Fifth Avenue. The book was created as a marketing tool, and...
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November 13, 2005

Shaken Up

I was listening to the radio the other night on the way to the gym. Turned out to be "Married to the Military," a documentary from American Radioworks about the challenges of life in a military town, Fayetteville, NC, home...
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Other Daddies Typing, Vol X.3 - Etc

Here's the info stuff from the blog round-up: So parents [Swedish dads, New York moms] taking their kids into prison with them? wtf? [bloggingbaby] Beth of Blogging Baby flew solo with the kid and did just fine, thanks. She had...
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Other Daddies Typing, Vol...Whatever - Buying

Here's a round-up of what the blogs are buying--or talking about buying, anyway: Buck got, loved 5starbaby's signature baby-announcement-as-movie-poster. [bucksmith.org] To anyone thinking about getting me candy cane pajamas for Christmas: Um, can I see you over here for a...
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Other Daddies Typing, Vol...I Forget

It must be getting old, this "I'm so far behind on other peoples' blogs" schtick. This time, I'm breaking this roundup into categories. First up, Required Reading: If a Sweet Juniper falls in the forest and 100 million AOL users...
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November 12, 2005

It's A Colic World After All

Perhaps the only retired New York City police officer who owns a breastfeeding boutique, she was born in Berlin 40 years ago. Though her own colic was dosed with British gripe water, as her mother tells it, she was resolved...
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November 11, 2005

Light Weekend Reading: "Fatalities And the Organization of Child Care"

Sheesh. What a way to end the day. After DT reader George used it to steer the "how to evaluate child care?" post back on topic, I decided to sit down with a just-published paper by CUNY sociologists Julia Wrigley...
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November 10, 2005

Sorry, Moms, The Mob Has Spoken

So after the story dominated local newscasts last night [?!?], Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn gave a stern talking to to the moms quoted in yesterday's NY Times article about the Scone Nazi and his "inside voices" sign for...
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Waiting for Beckett, or Congratulations, Conan O'Brien!

In the year 2000, I bet Conan had no idea that in five years, he and his wife Liza would name their second kid Beckett. Well, life's funny that way. Beckett was born last night in NYC. He's 8.25 lbs...
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Quinny vs. Bugaboo: Which One Is Best For Men With, Um, Big Feet?

Men with big feet drive Bugaboos, if you know what I mean... Brakes. Brakes. I'm talking about footbrakes, what did you think I meant? Anyway, Anna from Amsterdam swears that she isn't "on a mission to promote Bugaboo over Quinny,"...
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Mario-Che Mashup T-shirt

You can contact ButtonMashers, the crafty, geeky Montreal couple who made these t-shirts depicting Mario in all his Che Guevara goodness, and see if they're going to make any Onesie-brand bodysuits from Gerber, or maybe some other, less-well-branded bodysuits of...
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Crying For, At Art

Art blogger Todd Gibson recently took his 8-month-old daughter to see a video art piece by Shirin Neshat. The kid sat, transfixed for a while, and then suddenly started wailing. [He took her out immediately, btw, without prompting from any...
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New Tests Can Detect Down Syndrome At 11 Weeks

An 8-year study of nearly 40,000 women showed that Down Syndrome can be detected in the first trimester, as early as 11 weeks into a pregnancy, using a combination test of ultrasound and blood-protein testing. This new testing method has...
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Man Buys India's 3-year-old Marathoner For 800 Rupees

So a 3-year-old boy in India regularly runs marathon-length distances, but if I read this story right, the Indian government is upset because his "mentor" may be harming his health, but they're fine with the fact that his mother sold...
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See? Pink Kitchens Aren't Retro

The JJ family found this little picture game in the Retro Kid photo pool I linked to yesterday. By asking "Which of these are things your mommy uses? Which are things your daddy uses?" it's proves more open-ended than Pottery...
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November 9, 2005

Katamari Damacy Blanket

It took this woman three months to crochet this Katamari Damacy blanket. If you were to buy it, then, it'd cost like...let's see...$300. OR you can learn how to drop hints to a crocheting grandma-to-be, maybe. OR you can...
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Hello Kitty Dark Side Paintings

Nick, aka idoru45, paints great little dystopian Hello Kitty portraits: Hello Kitty in a gas mask, Hello Kitty with a radiation bomb, and my favorite, Hello Kitty as a Stormtrooper. There's also a portrait of Miffy with an RPG launcher....
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Retro Kid Photo Pool on Flickr

Did you know there's a Retro Kid photo pool on Flickr with nearly 400 scans of classic and mid-century modernist children's art and book illustrations? Did you know that it includes some scans of Mary Blair's work, the great Disney...
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Baby Gangland Warfare Erupts in Chicago Restaurants

When I got an email a few days ago forwarded from a NYT reporter seeking examples of kids in restaurants, I dutifully sent along some anecdotes of the kid's meltdown at the conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Tokyo. But until...
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Observer Blacklist: NYC Hipster Baby Stores

The New York City way of life is threatened like never before by purveyors of "edgy" baby gear. How can it be stopped? [Or, alternately, where can I get me some of that edgy?] The New York Observer has dutifully...
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Observer Hates On City's Hipster/Political Baby Outfits

Of course you'll read it--it practically a shopping list of NYC's "flippant," "hipster" baby stores--but Daisy Carrington's NY Observer article about the wrongness of dressing your city kid in shirts with political, punk, and or hipster-related outfits gets a lot...
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Gatea, Bosque, Gatea! Colombian Baby Marathon

600 kids were expected for Cali, Colombia's first "Marat�n de Gateadores," [aka Crawlers Marathon] a couple of weeks ago, but according to the municipal health ministry 1,122 showed up. The human equivalent of a frogjumping contest, the races pitted kids...
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UK National Toddler Curriculum: 'No Latin Until Age 3 '

The British government is proposing a national curriculum for kids ages "naught to five." I looked that up; it means zero. Obviously, I was not the beneficiary of a nationally standardized curriculum which every type of professional caregiver was responsible...
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November 8, 2005

Epidurals: Needle In, Dad Out?

Danny Gregory got the automatic boot from the delivery room when his wife Patti was having her epidural. In our case, the topic never came up; I stayed through the whole thing, including the part where the hippie anesthesiologist stuck...
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Metafilterers Ask: What Should You Ask When Evaluating Childcare?

There are some good-read, government-published guidelines from places like Canada and the UK, where professional childcare is a little more widely available, but most suggestions--observe the carer/set-up all day; interview parents, not just the carer or the daycare center chief;...
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Strollers: What Does Your Cookie Say?

ookie magazine's first issue isn't all about losing the baby weight. It's also has articles about which most expensive stroller to buy [See? I love it already.] The preview shows three top picks in Cookie's own categories, with a couple...
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Move Over, Bun, There's A Cookie In The Oven

Set to hit newsstands next week, the NY Times has a preview of Cookie, which was presumably delivered to their office by the conscripted children of Conde Nast employees. As editor Pilar Guzman explains, Cookie is a new type of...
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The Peanut Archives Arrives

Trust me, I'm not spoiling it for you when I tell you this is the installment of The Peanut where Danny Gregory's wife finally gives birth. Great stuff:I feel tremendously guilty, darting between both sides of the room, splitting my...
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Keith Haring Wall Decals From Blik

Blik, the wall decal people, have introduced a collection of iconic Keith Haring decals, including barking dogs, those dancers, some angels, and the Radiant Baby [available in two sizes]. You can order custom colors by calling, or get mostly...
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Things I've Never Seen: Cats, Les Miz, Yoga Mamas

After not seeing Cats or Les Miz for a few years, every year that I still didn't see it became more significant. Not seeing it came to feel like an accomplishment; if I ever saw them now, it'd be quite...
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November 7, 2005

Chinati Foundation Gear For Your Artworld Kid

Ran into some art world friends whose 2-year-old son I hadn't seen for a while--they grow so fast!--and the kid was wearing an awesome sweatshirt. It was a classic grey hoodie with "Chinati" spelled across the front in red block...
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NYT: When Does Paternity Start?

If you're for a man's right to be involved in the decisions about using or donating embryos, then you should probably support a man's involvement in the decision to continue or end a pregnancy, right? That's the logic of some...
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More NY Mag Parenting Insanity: Five Pre-Schoolers At Le Cirque

The set-up has about as much to do with reality as a reality tv show: record the hilarity that will surely ensue when one man takes five pre-schoolers to eat at one of New York City's best restaurants. The restaraunt:...
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I'll Call Him Mini-me.

So a reader who wishes to remain anonymous writes in: since i've started the playgroup circuit, i've noticed that many moms have named their kids similarly. it's almost like, "this is the name i wish i had so i gave...
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November 6, 2005

Do Caregivers Care What You Give Them? Yes

What do you give the caregiver for Christmas? For a full-time nanny/sitter, the rule of thumb I always hear is "a week's pay or equivalent." Discuss that one amongst yourselves if you like. Meanwhile, who knows what fits all the...
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Me, I'm Just Happy They Got The URL Right

Now that he's famous from LAX to LA Harbor, I hope celebrity dad-to-be Dan Paik doesn't forget us little people. Paik is well-known in Manhattan Beach as "the guy who loves his Bugaboo even though the kid's not coming until...
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November 5, 2005

Frag-Free [!!] Wipespotting

DT reader Andy has extended the search for old-school Costco diaper wipes to England:When we were in the UK last year we found Costco-wipes-equivalents in Boots (after a LOT of searching: why do all other wipes suck)? Looking on their...
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But In The French Version, Jill Always Tumbles First

Hotelier/Uma Thurman squeeze Andre Balasz commissioned a children's book as part of the marketing program for his new SoHo condo loft development, 40 Mercer St, which was designed by French deathstarchitect Jean Nouvel. It's called--get this--Jacques et Jill:In "Jacques...
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November 4, 2005

Boy, 15, Traces DNA, Finds Sperm Donor Dad's Last Name (Fortunately Not Gallo)

If he inherited his precociousness from his dad, well, then it was only a matter of time. A 15 year-old British kid was conceived using anonymous donor sperm. He submitted his own DNA to a genetic genealogy database, which eventually...
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Milk: Keeps Your Cookie From Being Lonely

If you can't wait another couple of days for the debut of Conde Nast's lush Cookie Magazine, scoot on over to a better newsstand and pick up a copy of MiLK. If it's not the French inspiration for Cookie, Milk...
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New Dwell Baby Sheet Patterns

If you like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing you'll like: Dwell Baby is introducing new bedding patterns for delivery in January '06: carousel, garden, animals, and alphabet [above]. Preview and preorder them at Velocity...
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Admittedly, That's A Big "If"

What, is sperm graded on a curve now? Actor/director/all-around prick Vincent Gallo is selling his sperm, preferrably to a blonde, blue-eyed Jewess--but not to anyone with a dark complexion, sorry--for $1 million:Mr. Gallo is 5'11" and has blue eyes. There...
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Orange You Glad You Waited To Buy A Nest High Chair?

If it's orange, would you still call it an Egg? It looks more like a Gobstopper. Mozzee unveiled the orange Nest chair at Cologne's Kind + Jugend expo a few weeks back, and now it's available for pre-order at...
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An Audi In Wolfsburg Clothing

I didn't know it'd be Audi week when I set out to do the laundry, I swear. But remember when the crew at the NY Times hated on the new Jetta for abandoning the volks, and pretending that some chrome...
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November 3, 2005

Who's Buying The Ridgeline, Exactly? Um...

Just two years ago, Honda targeted its sport pickup concept at "cool dads." Now it seems like they'd be happy if anybody bought one, no kids, no cool, no problem. Jalopnik reports that Honda's parking a bunch of modded...
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Cinderella: Princess-For-Life

I haven't heard from the kid yet that she wants to be a princess, but according to the child development specialists at Disney Consumer Products, it's only a matter of time. The Disney Princess line seems to be warping the...
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Crotchety CBGB Owner Wants All Those Babywear Profits For Himself

Hilly Kristal, the crazy, old geezer who owns CBGB, is hoping to keep his tired, lame "birthplace of punk" club alive by waging a war of annoyance in the press and the courts. Or by moving to Las Vegas. The...
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Beacon Hill Parents [Heart] Their Audi Wagons

Went to a/the laundromat on Charles St. in Boston's Beacon Hill this morning to wash all the kid's puke-covered gear, and other than the near total Bugaboo hegemony [seriously, except for two Quinny Zapps and a Phil & Ted's, and...
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November 2, 2005

What I Learned At The Restaurants Today

Every dad should carry a straw snipper with him at all times, because straws are always too tall for little kids. Good luck going through the airport with it, though. [note: these little vasectomy promo scissors'd do the trick.] Also,...
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Ausgezeichnet! "Where Babies Come From"

If you're reading this site at work, maybe you should save this link until you get home. Unless you work in a German pre-school, where this book seems to have originated. Where babies come from? In German. [planetdan via tmn]...
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iPod My Baby Cutest Baby Contest--Remember, No Fatties

With a midnight, Dec. 15 deadline for entries, and winners set to be announced the next day [!!], you don't have enough time to conceive and give birth to the world's cutest baby and enter him in ipodmybaby.com's World's Cutest...
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Beastie Boys Stroller-spotting, Cont'd

When it comes to stroller-stalking, the child-free readers of Gawker are pretty useless; they email all excited, "I saw Mike D. pushing a stroller!" but then they leave the real news--the KIND of stroller--out. So I did some digging, and...
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Amazon, Huggies, Want To Stuff You--With Savings!!

Does this seem a little too soon to you? If you're still working your way through the mega-shipment of Seventh Generation stuff you bought from Amazon, you may want to sit this one out: If you buy $79 worth of...
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November 1, 2005

Did You Change The Way You Drive When The Kid Was Born?

Because I apparently didn't. At least not all the way. It's not like I was going to run out and buy a "baby on board" sign for the rear window, but I think my driving has become a bit more...
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Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 5

See how far behind I get in my reading and posting?: The Bean's Dad had a breakthrough in group: the moms at the playground are actually talking to him, despite that whole SAHD shower schedule [come on, you know the...
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