Daddy Types: June 2009 Archives

June 2009 Archives

June 30, 2009

This Is Not Your Kid's Opel Insignia EcoFlex Wagon, And It Never Will Be

The Opel Insignia EcoFlex Sports Tourer is somehow environmentally friendly. I don't speak German, though, and all I can figure is that it gets good mileage [over 50 mpg]. The Insignia just won the 2009 European Car of the...
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Finally, The DT Juddy Crib

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I just posted some photos from a few months ago of the finished crib/toddler bed...
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June 29, 2009

Dollpocalypse Now

The horror... the ridiculous horror... I've been trying to work out the script where this dopey gringa gone-native is Dennis Hopper, and the man living on this abandoned doll-covered chinampa is Kurtz, which would make the canals of the...
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Just Two More Days Until The Bugaboo Price Jump!

That's right, it's only $899 now, but on July 1st, the price of a new Bugaboo Cameleon jumps $80 to $979. And a new Frog hops a whole $130, from $629 to $759. So if you're in the market...
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DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: 'We Know The Profile Of Your Readers' Edition

Mull over this mad melange of momtastic marketing messages moldering in my malebox!Hi, I just wanted to follow up with you on this item to see if you might be able to include. A hot new website is changing the...
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Reference Library, Max Lamb, Enzo Mari At The Selby

The homebrewed messy modernist snake has eaten its tail, and it looks awesome. Andy Beach's April retail colabo in Milan with Apartamento Magazine has now gotten the The Selby treatment. Which means you can see the full-color, reissued awesomeness...
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June 28, 2009

Midcentury Family Modernism, Ch. 2: The Stahls

Just in time for several busloads of design pilgrims to troop through it during the CABoom/Dwell on Design festivals, the LA Times has a great article about Buck Stahl and his family who still live in Pierre Koenig's Case...
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Taunton's Fightinest Gets Out Of Jail Long Enough To Get Arrested For 143rd Time

So I start seeing a burst of comments about Stone Cold Derek Lindsay, the fightinest dad in Taunton, Massachusetts, and I'm like, "No way could he get arrested, he's in jail!" Way! Even though Lindsay's 142nd arrest--for attempted murder [!]--was...
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June 27, 2009

Once Upon A Time, There Was A Little Girl Who Lived With Her Father

Simon Van Booy's tale of raising his 4-year-old daughter alone is just fantastic. Raising a Princess Single-Handedly [nytimes]...
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June 26, 2009

DT Friday Freakout

Here are some overwrought headlines from the worlds of science and health and such to ruin your parenting weekend: Smacking your kid will give him cancer. In Canada. "Childhood physical abuse is associated with elevated rates of cancer in adulthood,...
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Hello Gundam?

A Taiwanese fan made this for Gundam's 30th anniversary. Stay tuned for the launch of the matching Pink Base. Deco-Gundam [pinktentacle via c-monster]...
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DT Replays Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits

What more could be said about Michael Jackson that hasn't already been said here on Daddy Types? Really, I got nothing. So without further ado, here is the complete anthology of MJ-related DT posts. Summer 2007 was clearly a peak:...
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'I Like What I Look Like'

From the incomparable 1974 landmark TV event, "Free to be...you and me": Daddy Types, 2007:As a teenager, Michael Jackson once looked in a mirror and saw a curvy black woman. Roberta Flack, to be exact. I think we all would've...
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June 25, 2009

Thonet Bologna! 1875 Bentwood Bassinet On eBay

Wow, there's something you don't see turn up on eBay every day. Or ever. A vintage modernist furniture dealer in Bologna, Italy has an original c 1875 Thonet bassinet for sale. He's done a full restoration on it, including...
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DadCentric On NuPoppa

Damn you sports camp carpool lane gridlock! I missed Jason from DadCentric's interview on NuPoppa, the, uh, dad-centric podcast for, uh, new poppas, hosted each week by Doug and Ted. The wife's out of town this week, so I'm soloing...
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Last Call For Token Father's Day Stories

Have you come across a token Father's Day story from a TV station, magazine, or newspaper? Have you put a link to it in the DT Token Father's Day Contest so you can have a chance to win a Nintendo...
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Gerber, Hanna Andersson Spun Off To Pay The Bills

Whoops, looks like I missed this story from the New Depression. Which I guess was the entire point of the company releasing the news on November 25, two days before Thanksgiving. Kellwood, a women's apparel manufacturer which bought Gerber Childrenswear...
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June 24, 2009

Disney Can Happen To Anyone: Pooh Unplugged, By Karen Finley

After a decade as cannon fodder in the right-wing's culture war, where her every artistic move was invariably introduced as the latest from "controversial and obscene chocolate-smearing performance artist and NEA grant recipient," I would expect that by 1999,...
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Make Your Own Inaba-style Pool Noodle Rooftop Furniture

A bunch of art world non-profits [as if there were any other kind of organization in the art world at the moment] are holding a big love-in of some kind this week at X Initiative, the old Dia building...
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Holey Crap! How Do You Clean Up Saturated Diaper Crystals?

Oh no she di'int? Oh yes, she did. K2 just came charging out of her room waving her unfurled, supersoaked overnight diaper. The fabric had split, and so left a wide trail of pee-saturated diaper tapioca in her wake. It's...
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DTQ: What Hot New Baby Name Would YOU Choose?

This was in my comment spam this morning:Hello , This is Hunter from newmart company,if you have any question or need our price list ,please do not hesitate let us know Look forward to receiving your reply Best regards, Hunter...
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June 23, 2009

Now About That History Of Soft Play

I just realized it's been two whole months since I learned that those giant foam wrestling mat-style playgrounds are called "soft play," and that the leading design and manufacturer for soft play areas, in malls, anyway, is a Denver-based...
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When You're At Ikea, You're Family

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } kid sacked out on the sofa at Ikea, originally uploaded by daddytypes. We had a...
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June 22, 2009

Ride'em Panton! Flying Chair By Verner Panton

Verner Panton showed the Flying Chair at the 1964 Cologne Furniture Fair as part of a total Panton environment. It caused a sensation, but it was never put into production, and only a couple of installation photos survived. In...
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DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: 'Tidy Whiteys' Edition

Specially selected messages from the mountain of momcentric marketing madness that masses in my mailbox:Subj: Little Boy Hats, Flip Flops and Tidy Whiteys [? -ed.] haiden surf has got your little grom covered in all the right places. Manhattan Beach,...
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June 21, 2009

Dan Neil's Got A Fifty Thousand Euro Motorhome

On my first trip to Las Vegas, I was 17. Some SoCal BYU dorm mates and I Rat Packed it down there from Provo for a weekend. And so it was, that I found myself at 3 o'clock Saturday morning,...
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June 20, 2009

The DT Token Father's Day Story Contest!

Alright, this one will be quick. DT's minivan correspondent JJ Daddy-O has challenged us to a contest, and I think we can't back down. So get out there and find the most ridiculously patronizing Father's Day story you can find,...
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Educational & Entertaining: Why, They're As Different As Colored And White

Did you know that when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created in 1967, a Republican congressman from Texas proposed an amendment forbidding the "educational stations" from offering "entertainment"? These were the two opposing ends of the media spectrum back...
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Did Mister Rogers Really Save Public Television In That Hearing?

I was watching the classic footage again last night, where Fred Rogers testified before the Senate and powerfully defended public television and won over the steely hearts of the politicians by, well, by just him being him. As Graham...
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June 19, 2009

Yeah Maclar-- I Mean, Oh, Poor Maclaren

I can't remember if the question on this lobby poster was "Will you compare each of the sixty dollars you spent on a sitter, taxi, and tickets for Away We Go to a saw-toothed dagger in the groin?" or...
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DT Friday Freakout Jersey Girl Edition

Father's Day notwithstanding, here are some news reports from the worlds of science, government, and parenting to ruin your weekend: In two separate incidents this week, Continental Airlines sent two unaccompanied minors to the wrong cities, and USA Today says...
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It's... An ILLUSION! B&B Owner/Hypnotist/'Lord' Totally Making Up This Babyglow Nonsense

In their skeptical post about this bullshit announcement of Babyglow, a new "invention" of thermochromatic pajamas that change color when a baby's body temperature goes above normal, Engadget says that "The most gullible shopper on the planet has to...
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June 18, 2009

And The Winner Of The 2009 Token Father's Day Involved Dad Feature Story Is...

Ah yes, Father's Day. That time of year when a thick-headed morning news producer's heart turns to Mr. Mom stories that weren't relevant 20 years ago, either, and newspaper editors momentarily acknowledge the existence of entire generations of involved...
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Kid-Size Womb Chair, HAHA! knoll kids shrinks its greatest hits

Oh, wait, we already knew about the kid-size Saarinen Womb chair. And the baby-size Womb chair. AND the mini-Mies Barcelona chair, which were part of Knoll's 2007 attempt to keep up with the Genius Joneses. I guess that went...
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Dad Car Roundup At Cars.com

When he's not busy finding cash cards in cereal boxes [Credit cards are for kids!], Dave reviews cars for Cars.com. And he always gives them the dad-view onceover, checking the car seat access, watching for bonked foreheads in the back,...
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June 17, 2009

Endless Summer Of Luvs

Looks like the NY Times' advertising columnist Stuart Elliott recently caught the Broadway revival of Hair:The moon may not be in the seventh house. And only an astrologer knows for sure if Jupiter has aligned with Mars. But it...
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And In Other Annoying, Talentless, Manipulative Hack News...

Jill Greenberg made babies cry, and then took their picture. Glenn Beck makes himself--and anyone with two neurons to rub together--cry on his flame-fanning, wingnut TV show. Greenberg's 2004 exhibit of her crybaby photos was called "End Times." Glenn...
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Just Do What The Muppets Say, And No One Gets Hurt

Yeah, sure I knew Jim Henson's Muppets predated Sesame Street and that most were created for commercials. In the abstract. There were even a few Muppet ads screening last summer at the Smithsonian's otherwise forgettable Jim Henson Legacy exhibition. But...
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Awesome Homebrew Coffee Bar/ Play Kitchen

Come for the chalkboard paint in rainbow colors, stay for the awesome little stainless steel play fridge. Craig was one of the earliest DT reader/contributors, and a big modernist design fan, as you can see from the incredible homemade...
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So You Wish You Had An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Pedal Car?

DT reader Katy sends along a photo of a cute kid in a wienermobile from flickr megapoweruser mattlogelin's photostream. And the obvious question is, "Where can I get one?" Well, they turn up on craigslist and eBay. About 16,000...
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June 16, 2009

How Do Moms Do It? Stroller Suspenders

Don't you just see an incredible invention sometimes, and you wonder how a mom ever came up with that brilliant idea? And then you wonder, wow, it's so obviously awesome, why has no mom ever thought of it before? Because...
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Ausgezeichnet! New Renate Müller Animals--By Renate Müller

Sure, you might see a sweet Renate Müller stuffed animal, made in the 70's from leather and jute--the East German cashmere!--for sale here and there. Andy Spade's new store has/had a whole pile of them. But here's a caption...
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Those Pasties Look Like Choke Hazards Anyway

Miss Coco, this plush burlesque hoochie mama by etsy maker Jellibat, has already been sold. [jellibat's much tamer etsy store today, via tryhandmade]...
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Hola, Puerta De Los Alphabet Blocks Grandes!

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Reconstruyendonos II, 2009 by Belkis Ramirez , originally uploaded by C-Monster. Most artists just show...
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DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: On Tuesday

Wow, it's Tuesday, and I completely forgot to do the new Monday Mommy Marketing Mania Mailbag or whatever! I guess parenting really throws off your estrogen levels or something! Hi, Leave it to the minds of moms to solve some...
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The Hangover: The Bootleg Nerd Shirt

Finally, something to wear when your tuxedo t-shirt is in the laundry. Still, it's better than the The Hangover bootleg T-shirt with a busted up vintage Mercedes steering wheel on the front at FratIdiotShirts.com. Knockoffery Update: Whoops, just who...
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June 15, 2009

More Than Model Trains: Mid-Century Modern Kibri Dollhouse

Well here's one hint that German model maker Kibri had a serious modernist thing going on in the early 1960's: check out the swingin' Kibri doll house at Virtuelles Puppenhausmuseum. The doll house, model 158/9, was modular and extendable,...
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Das Kreativische Spielthingen? 1960 Kibri 'Building Furniture'

If it's known at all outside Germany, it seems that Kibri is primarily a toy company specializing in dolls, models, and particularly model trains. So maybe this set of c. 1960 Kibri, Kindler & Briel modular play furniture that's...
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Art For The People! 20x200x20% Off

I've written about 20x200 before; it's the online art gallery that publishes limited edition photos and prints at prices ranging from $20 to $50 all the way up to $5,000. Until Tuesday night, though, those prices will range from...
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June 14, 2009

Secret Asian Man

Studies of data from the 2000 US census and 2004 births show that Asians in the US are increasingly turning to "family balancing," either through sex selection or abortion, to ensure they have a boy. The chances of a second...
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Unistroller? Strollerbarrow? Awesomeness On Wheels

Strollers look the way they do because strollers look the way they do. Japanese strollers are all spindly, floppy little chairs. Jogging strollers looked liked hacked up biketents. Scandinavian strollers are all grocery cart-like, outdoor sleeping tanks. A wave...
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June 13, 2009

Found: That DIY Plywood Bed Set-Up From The 70's

You remember that kind of awesome, Supergraphic-equipped plywood bed the American Plywood Association was propagating in 1975? The one with the optional boxes for TOYS, SHOES, and THINGS? Well, it truly was the Age of Free Plywood Love, because...
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Holy Cow, It Was Actually Green Inside

Is that what makes it organic milk? It wasn't a contest, per se, but congratulations to Seth for accurately predicting the location of K2's missing bottle. I swear, I checked the Bugaboo hood five times....
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MacNetto! Maclaren Bought Netto Collection

I think that's called a scoop. I'm hearing from multiple parties that the deal for Maclaren to acquire Netto Collection was finalized Friday, and it will be announced publicly on Monday. After dabbling a bit with portable cribs, and high...
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June 12, 2009

DTQ: What Do You Say To Street Smacking?

So the other day, I was walking along the street, and I cut across a little triangular park, all cobblestone, with a few chairs in it. And there's a dad standing there. His kid--18 mos, maybe more, but not 2--is...
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Wow, Price Increase Set To Stimulate Bugaboo's Economy July 1st

After posting about the price increase set to hit UK Bugaboos on July 1st, I've heard from a couple of retailers that a new Bug pricing butterfly will be emerging from its cocoon in the US, too. Sounds like the...
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N Is For Nido? Gigantic Nest Sofa By Gianni Ruffi

You may know the Italian furniture company Poltronova as the one-time manufacturer of sofas shaped like giant baseball mitts. So you may not be as surprised as I was to find out that they produced Gianni Ruffi's La Cova,...
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DT Friday Freakout: Playgrounds, Pregnant BPA & Asian Co-Sleeping Edition

Some over-reaching conclusions and alarming news stories from the worlds of science, safety, and parenting to ruin your weekend, especially if you were planning to go to a playground, or drink from a plastic bottle when you're pregnant: "Safety Questions...
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June 11, 2009

Mass Modern Auction @ W20: Thinking Of The Children

Part of me wants to shout out about all the interesting-looking kid stuff in Wright20's upcoming Mass Modern auction June 27, and part of me wants to shut my piehole, because there are lots of lots being sold no reserve,...
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'Dov Working On Various Construction Projects'

For those who have a hard time imagining American Apparel CEO Dov Charney making anything other than a complete, skanky, sexual harassing ass out of himself, this slideshow of all the crafty toys and furniture he made as a...
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Blimey! Bugaboo To Increase [!?] Prices In The UK?

Fortunately, the global depression is over, and England is back to boomtime. So much so that Bugaboo is apparently having trouble keeping up with demand. Economics 101 says the obvious thing to do is raise prices. Says one concerned retailer,...
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La Plus Ca Change: Yet Another Murakami x Vuitton Anime

Once you get the elements in the computer, you can remix them any way you like, year after year after year after year after year after year! Happy 6th anniversary Murakami x Vuitton mashups! [via felix] Previously: Louis Vuitton,...
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Nightmare On Sesame Street, By Jeremy Natividad

Jeremy Natividad did this scary doodle of Sesame Street monsters gone bad. You can see more of his work here or on his blog, Mighty Robot. [via carlovely's tumblr--seriously, is every single tumblr a dope hipsterfest?--thanks dt reader and...
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June 10, 2009

Hey Wha?? Vladimir Kagan Bassinet At Wright20

Holy smokes. I've been chasing a sweet, modernist plexiglass bassinet since literally the day the kid was born. How is it possible I haven't heard of this insane Lucite and oak model Vladimir Kagan designed in 1970 before it...
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On The Question Of Quiet Or Too Quiet?

If it's a 1-yo we're talking about, the answer is almost inevitably "too quiet." I was just trying to get some work done before my dad got into town this afternoon, and so I really wanted K2 to be...
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That's The Thing About Ninjas...

You never realize it, but they've been right there the whole time. [about colon blank via boingboing]...
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Puj Origami Tub

Ooh, that's nice. The Puj tub [rhymes with judge, fudge, kludge, nudge, smudge--whoops, got carried away there. I blame the kid and her infernal car ride games.] Anyway, the Puj tub is an ingeniously shaped and scored foam sheet...
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Bone Teethers, Perhaps Also Known As Gum Sticks

Andy posted photos of one of the things he didn't win on eBay recently, maybe because it's gross: a collection of circa 1850 baby teethers carved from cow bone. Or maybe he didn't win because antique baby teethers are such...
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The Fourth Bottle

Switching to BPA-free bottles was easy; the Born-Free nipple and valve system actually has a really good flow which K2 took to very well. We started by test-buying a Born-Free glass bottle because a) the plastic bottles have this...
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June 9, 2009

Plastic Bag, Not A Toy [Anymore]

Clearly, compared to previous generations of parents, we are overprotective wimps. "Better things, for better living...through Chemistry!" Cellophane makes the perfect gift, too! Cellophane: for fresher dead babies [copyranter]...
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'A China Doll Staring At You From Across The Room'

Odd, I don't remember the Nixon Era as this hilariously creepy. Jim unearths Amy's Doll, another classic picture book from the 70s that--HEADS UP--could trigger a recovered memory trauma for anyone who read it as a child. Have your...
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June 8, 2009

George & Barbara Bush Naked On A Hot Day

I'm still trying to stock up on crafty little projects to fill the kid's summer schedule in between camp, grandma sleepovers, and vacations. Somehow, I'm not sure that this vintage paper doll book is going to make it onto...
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This Week In Bankrupt Dutch Moppetwear Company News

So what's up with Oilily since the Dutch bankruptcy trustee shuttered the high-end kid clothing company's local stores and then sold off/handed back the trademarks to the Olsthoorn family, who founded the company, and who retained a significant minority stake...
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Snow White And The Seven Murdered Jews Of Drohobycz

Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist who lived in the city of Drohobycz, now part of Ukraine. After the Nazis took over and began killing Jews, Schulz was kept alive for a year by a Gestapo...
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One Was Johnny

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Johnny Carson & Nauga, originally uploaded by grickily. The other was Nauga, and the third,...
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No Photo, Thanks! Email's Plenty!

A few of the press releases and publicist story pitches I get have "--and dads!" tacked onto them, but a lot don't. So I've been thinking of something to highlight the most eye-popping examples of the mom marketing genre, a...
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June 7, 2009

Creative Playthings Miracle: "Immaculate" Play Kitchen

Just a sec, I need to update my list.... DT's Words I'll Never Hear Describing Vintage Creative Playthings Play Kitchens list Pristine Mint Immaculate Never Been Played With Free Shipping OK, I'm back. And what better to do on...
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June 6, 2009

Chris Burden's Atomic Alphabet

In 1980, the Cold War was raging, and artist Chris Burden was settling into the grown-up teaching job he'd secured at UCLA through his previous decade of attention-grabbing, self-mutilating performance art [c.f., getting shot in the arm, getting nailed...
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DT Friday Freakout: Russian Mice Breast Pump Edition

The Freakout's roundup of overwrought science, safety, and parenting news ruineth your weekend--and it unruineth [?] it with a little dose of Uma: The California Senate passed a ban on BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups this week, one...
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June 5, 2009

The Chimp Wasn't The Problem

Harry Raven, 82, would like to make two things clear: Contrary to all the press coverage at the time [i.e., the 1930s], Meshie, the orphan chimp his father brought home to live with them, was never considered a sibling. He...
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Indiewire To Away We Go: GO AWAY!

Wow. Just wow. Just going from their review, if Indiewire was a music video casting agent, and Away We Go, the Sam Mendes movie with the script by Dave Eggers and his wife Vendele Vida, which follows the dude from...
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Where The Wild Things Are Linking

Trailer Reaction from We Love You So on Vimeo. Jim's video of Gram watching the Where The Wild Things Are trailer got remixed with the trailer and posted on the movie's blog, We Love You So. I'm calling it right...
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Bluntcards ROTFLMAO

I don't know if anyone would actually ever pay money for them, and you'd have to know for double sure you that you wouldn't look like a total dick if you send them, but I'm still laughing and glad...
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Ikea Slide, Now In Convenient Take-Home Size

One of our Ikeas somewhere had a slide at the entrance to the kids section, which was mildly awesome. But either I forgot which Ikea it was, or they tore it out, because it's gone now, which mildly sucks....
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June 4, 2009

The Family That Flays Together Stays Together: Freaky One-Eyed Kid Car By Elmer Presslee

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Now how is it that a kid in a music video full of rubber, gore-faced...
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MGMT: No Children Were Harmed In The Making Of This Video. Well, OK, Maybe One.

It's not enough for MGMT that a fan video of their song "Kids" has like 15 million views on YouTube. They needed their own, official version. After all, "A baby is born/ Crying out for attention," sings the Wesleyan...
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Uppababy's Ready To Rumble [Seat]

It's after May 2009, and you know what that means! The UppaBaby [oops, UPPAbaby] Rumble Seat is actually/finally available. The Rumble Seat attaches onto the underseat basket, turning the Vista into a stack'em-style double stroller. Unlike the Phil &...
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Pinhead-Sized Swim Goggles Maker Aqua Leisure Treats Customer Service Email As Spam

For companies who solicit customer service requests via email on their website, and then take SEVEN WEEKS to answer, some free advice: Even if your company has Leisure in the name, check your customer service inbox more than once...
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June 3, 2009

Slide Chair, By Evan Dublin

The kid most always has fun, but I inevitably find myself trying to fix playgrounds in my head. Not that I can even pinpoint what's wrong with them, of course, but Evan Dublin's awesome Slide Chair, made from 100%...
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Whoops, Missed The First Day Of The Kit & Lili Sample Sale

A good friend told me about the sample sale at kit & lili which started today. It's all he wears--partly because most of the time, he's running around naked and trying to shimmy out of his diaper. Anyway, besides kit...
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Tetrascroll: AKA Buckylocks And The Three Bears

You know how sometimes you're just sittin' there, building a dome and whatnot, or you're telling your kid the same bedtime story for the bajillionth time, and to keep it fresh, you gradually transmogrify Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
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Late Model Rietveld High Chair At Sotheby's

After he finished the Schroder House in Utrecht in 1925, Gerrit Rietveld turned over his furniture business to his assistant Gerard van de Groenekan, who produced the designs until 1971, seven years after Rietveld's own death. Sotheby's Amsterdam is selling...
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Sotheby's Gets A Turn At Adorable Warhols

Andy Warhol published a boardbook in 1983 through his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger. It's a series of silkscreen paintings of toys and animals taken from vintage ads. We have some copies, and it's cool, but neither kid has shown...
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June 2, 2009

BeeCall! Bugaboo Bee Recalled For Buggy Brakes

I hope that Bugaboo Bee that just passed by you had a parent attached to it. The CPSC has issued a recall announcement for the 22,500 Bugaboo Bees sold in the US since August 2007 because of a possible brake...
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Wood Paneling Dollhouse

One of the kid's early trademark phrases, which she learned by listening to me call my wife to tell her where we were in our NYC-DC commute, was "Somewhere in New Jersey." Near as I can tell, that's also...
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American Dude Delivered By Midwife Suddenly Can't Get A Passport

I was just filling out the application for K2's passport--and renewing the kid's--when I caught this crazy passport thread and started pulling. Apparently, the State Department has flagged people who were delivered by at least 200 midwives around the country...
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The Kid Who Grew Up In The House On Pooh Corner

I just found this drawing by Mike Mills on his Humans blog. It was from his show this spring at Pool Gallery in Berlin, titled, "The only way out is through":With the help of drawings, pamphlets, historic findings and...
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June 1, 2009

MacNetto?

How many people on how many sides of a rumor do you have to know personally before it becomes awkward to post about it? If what I'm hearing about Maclaren buying Netto Collection is true, then I guess I'm about...
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Three Hungover Groomsmen And A Baby

I don't care how funny it is, there better be a disclaimer at the end stating that no actual Mercedes 300 SEB 3.5's were harmed in the making of The Hangover, or I'm gonna personally kick director Todd Phillips'...
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Crazy Racers That Go-Go-Go! [Out Of Print]

With the end of preschool approaching, I've been stockpiling some craft and toy and art projects to keep the kid busy. At the flea market today, we scored a couple of pristine, c. 1960 activity books from Whitman Publishing of...
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J. Crew Plays Hide The Awesome Kids Chair

I see some drop ceiling tiles, super-smooth floor treatments, and non-original moldings, so I'm going to assume that Mister Mort's sneak peek of J. Crew's fall/winter 09 menswear collection went down in a showroom somewhere, not a store. Which...
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WTD BPA Spokesmodel: Nice Cans, Pregnant A Plus, Some Travel Req.

Someone leaked the minutes of last Thursday's North American Metal Packaging Alliance BPA Joint Trade Association Meeting on Communications Strategy, or NAMPA BPA PR/BS HQ OMG WTF for short. It's like Treadstone for baby formula cans! Who is Jason Bourne??...
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