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 wonít shake peopleís 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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