November 9, 2005
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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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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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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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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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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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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600 kids were expected for Cali, Colombia's first "MaratŪn 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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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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