December 4, 2006

Greg Wigga Gets Mad Props From Salon.com Wigga

At Salon.com, King Kaufman pays tribute to The Wiggas on the occasion of Greg Wigga's retirement:The four men, who are white, affect the personas and speech of black American hip-hop stars. Each wears a distinctive, solid-colored shirt onstage and in...
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TGI Not Freitag: Passchal Dad Bag Made From Recycled Tires

Reuters somehow uncovered a new diaper bag design for men from a Richmond, VA-based designer, Passchal, who works exclusively in the medium of recycled inner tubes and tires. It looks a bit like that eel skin that was so...
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Posted by greg at 7:25 PM | Comments (1)

ABC News Discovers A Business 2X As Big As The Movies

Barely two days out of the country, and look what I miss. Somehow, the Baby Spa Industrial Complex has avoided detection by ABC News's crack team of reporters until now:Moms and dads across the country can now take their babies...
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Low-Tech Toys Cause Kids To Drop Out Of Harvard

Nancy Carlsson-Paige and her fellow early childhood development professor Diane Levin say parents should avoid electronic toys, especially for very young children, because they deny kids important lessons in human communication. Levin has even co-founded an elaborately acronymed organization, Teachers...
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Another Daddy types

Hello, my name is DT reader Andy and I'm going to be writing here for a few weeks while Greg is in Japan. I'm a new Dad, my daughter Elsa is 14 months old and I've been reading daddytypes for...
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Dude, Check Out Those Bassinets! Lucky Little Bastards

The caption on this photo from the LA Public Library's online photo archive reads:Unmarried teenage mother-to-be tries to reach a decision about her future. She wanders up to the nursery at St. Anne's Maternity Hospital on December 17, 1958,...
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