Daddy Types: August 2010 Archives

August 2010 Archives

August 31, 2010

Vintage Euro Pedal Car?

The list of things I missed in Antwerp this summer is growing, one vintage Euro, iPhone-shaped pedal car at a time. This sweet little ride was at Atelier Solarshop on the day Dubieus Design, the vintage design and furniture...
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Ceci N'est Pas Un Crate Changing Table--Yet

Andy just sent this over, and he's right, it'd make an awesome changing table. This happens to be in Atelier Solarshop's pop-up store in Antwerp, which is up through Oct. 9, if you want to go scout it out...
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August 30, 2010

Vacctivatic Immunity!

Haha, wow, whatever you've ever said about vaccines and thimerosal and mercury and autism and herd immunity and government cover-ups and Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and the Lancet and fabricating data to serve your litigious overlords, you're absolutely...
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August 29, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Depressing Edition

I know the weekend's almost over, but I think freaking out over these stories from the worlds of parenting, science, health, and education can still ruin it retroactively: You thought "anchor babies" were gonna getchya? A politician in Rhode Island...
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Mini Brothel By Atelier Van Lieshout

Alright, so it's not actually a toy. And yes, I know the estimate seems high. But you gotta admit, at 10.5 inches high, this 2005 maquette, Mini Brothel, by Atelier Van Lieshout, would be the perfect thing to park...
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August 28, 2010

Will Work For Matte Black C-Class DR 520s Estate

Is it twue what they say about station wagon drivers? Oh, it's twue! It's twue! Just look at this picture of F1 driver Justin Button posing with his new company car. Jenson Button's Other Car Is A Mercedes-Benz C-Class...
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August 27, 2010

OG Mercedes Diesel Wagon Drift

Teemu Peltola, the pride of Finland, drifting a Mercedes W123 diesel wagon with a Scania supercharger for Black Smoke Racing. This is so freaking awesome, I will overlook the contempt I have for Mercedes' revisionist branding scheme that led...
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I'll Take Crazy Vintage Dollhouses For $500, Alek!

There's gotta be a story or two here behind this incredible, handmade 3-ft wide, hexagonal dollhouse, which dt reader Christine just spotted on eBay. First off, obviously, What the hey? Those steeply raked rooms look like theatrical set tricks,...
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August 26, 2010

Cupcake Wars? Cupcake Mayhem

Considering that one kid only eats frosting, and the other only eats cake, you'd think our cupcake life would be much less complicated than it actually is. [Speaking of complicated cupcakes, the image above is from the 2009 Neiman...
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I [Heart] NY Onesies Put Your Cab Driver At Ease

Well, sweet, the DT Kickstarter project to make a few I [Heart] NY Onesies and toddler tees has been funded, so it's definitely going ahead! And since the only thing that'd make your cab driver feel more relieved than...
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The Kraken Has Been Released

Family Tree has published a limited edition series of 2-color silkscreen Monster Friends posters [12x18 is a pretty adorable size to call a poster, but hey]. It includes the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch AND Yeti, and the Kraken. Only...
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August 24, 2010

A Theory Of Breast Evolution

Seeing's how I found this story while searching for a picture of a caveman wearing a sling, I am really not in any position to comment on this other contribution from the world of human evolutionary science, so I'll just...
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Yesterday In Baby Carrier History

So yesterday archaeo-anthropologist Timothy Taylor explained to Gizmodo that the discovery of 2.5 million-year-old chipped stone tools that are at least 300,000 years older than the oldest known homo fossils suggests that not only did humans not invent tools, tools...
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August 23, 2010

Mini-Me & Me & Me & Me

Yayoi Kusama's works attempt to give the viewer a chance to lose himself, to have his own sense of individual identity replaced with a barrage of mirrored doppelgangers, to merge completely with the disorienting environment, Of course, most of...
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I Think We Can All Agree The Answer Is NOT 'Breastfeeding Discharge Bags'

From the DT Monday Mommy Mailbag [hey!]:ByMomsForMoms just announced a little contest that I thought you might want to share with your readers, Twitter followers and Facebook fans. We've been working with Cottonwood Kids for about a year now helping...
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August 20, 2010

Now THAT'S A Reason To Find A Mandarin-Speaking Nanny

Someone on Twitter called the 2006 show titled, "Musical Language" the single best episode of Radiolab ever. I don't know about that, but it is certainly very awesome. And from a parent's perspective it is a must-listen. There's a bit...
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DT Friday Freakout: Summer Vacation Edition

Some parenting, kid, pregnancy, science, and education headlines from all over to freak you out and ruin your weekend: Despite August not being a good month for launching a new product recall, the CPSC recalled 3,700 Zooper Tango double...
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This Just In From The Kids Memorize The Darndest Things Department...

From DT reader Eric comes this video of YouTube user drchelpka's expressive 3-yo son reciting "Litany," by former US Poet Laureate and apparent Outback Steakhouse fan ["You are still the bread and the knife"? Amiright? Am I the only one...
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August 19, 2010

أنا ♥ نيويورك Onesies, Anyone?

I think I'm going to whip up a batch of these. With the two-color screenprinting, they'll probably be $20, plus a couple of dollars shipping. You can order either a onesie or a toddler t-shirt via Kickstarter. The Kickstarter...
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Yo Quiero A Spanish-Speaking Nanny

So The New York Times reports that city families are seeking out non-English-speaking nannies to teach their kids a foreign language. Or I should say second language, since the whole point of New York is that there's no such thing...
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August 18, 2010

Zoos Clues

Trying to parent while fully loaded down with zoo ambivalence is hard enough on its own. It's only made worse by living a block away from two of them [National Zoo in DC, Central Park Zoo in NYC]. Which...
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Braggin' Wagon

The only photos in his flickr stream are from May, so I am assuming that Scooter Trash did not, in fact, end up sacrificing his wife's new kitchen for this rather fine-looking 1964 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon. 1964 Bel...
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August 17, 2010

NY Times Writes The Hell Out Of Park Slope Ghost Stroller

Whatever the white-painted stroller chained to the Park Slope street corner mystery turns out to be, it gave Susan Dominus a chance to pause. And to reflect:Many other mothers, possibly used to the sight by now, pushed their own full...
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Hate The Playa, Not The Happy Meal Toy

Happy Meal toys are the toy equivalent of McDonalds french fries, which are in turn the food equivalent of cigarettes. They incite and fill an instant craving. Their utility wears off in about five minutes. By which point, they've lodged...
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August 16, 2010

Backseat Raver

975,000 views for just this one video? If he weren't in Birmingham, UK, I'm sure Fred The Raver would already be booked onto Ellen deGeneres' show by now. Brilliant! Toddler really feels dubstep groove [dangerousmindes.net via boingboing]...
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Infant Stool Illustrations By The Inestimable Mrs J.D.Z. Chase

Sure, she produced, for the purposes of diagnosis and education, the hand-drawn illustrations of the contents of various infant diapers included in Dr. Harry Lowenburg's 1916 A practical treatise on infant feeding and allied topics, for physicians and students....
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August 15, 2010

Baby Armani

I don't know, I really thought L'il 9/11 was going to be a hit. Shutterbugs Episode 4: Bobbe J [youtube via @jadabumrad]...
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August 14, 2010

'I Won't Mess Us Up, I'm Mr. November'

A report from DT Lollapalooza correspondent GF-R:Thought you'd appreciate the following videos of the National (described by pitchfork as a "dad band"...presumably bc they're all over the age of 35 and some have kids..as do many of their followers)....
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August 13, 2010

DO(ra) Crank Dat Spiderman

I'm sorry, but who let the Doras out without their pants? [via southwillard]...
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August 12, 2010

Anchor Babies, Terror Babies, All These Brown American Babies Look Alike

First the good news! American OB/GYN's are winning the War On Terror! Turns out there aren't waves of jihadi women sneaking across the border to have their Terror Babies in the US, so they can take them home to Jihadistan,...
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Hey Extremely Small Boy, You Look Mighty Tight In Them Jeans

One of the greatest media innovations of the 20th century was NY1's morning show, where Pat Kiernan would skim the top stories from the day's newspapers to you on TV. Which I thought of when I realized the Wall Street...
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August 11, 2010

Prahawesome Crib In A Ramp House

Yes, that is what you think it is: an Ikea Gulliver crib on a little homemade platform on a big old ramp floor in a polyurethane-coated house outside Prague that was built for a psychiatrist who wanted a movie...
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OG Tupperware Japan Toy

Check that out: The vintage/flea market shark who runs Swimsuit Department found a mint-in-box, vintage Tupperware Shape-O puzzle ball. From and in Japan. Apparently, they were called Tuppertoys there. Who knew? All I know is, my little brother and...
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It Takes A Playgroup To Raise An Only Child

The Wall Street Journal reports that the parents of several only children have created a once-a-week playgroup to socialize them. This is now or will be a trend, seeing as how some people only have one kid. How will this...
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August 10, 2010

Lost 90s Kids Furniture By Anthologie Quartett

Look, I'm not happy either about posting a vintage kids furniture story from 1991, a year I happen to remember myself quite well, thankyouverymuch, and it was not that long ago. Though I guess technically, it's just long enough...
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On The Bright Side, Free Bread Sticks

A man in a Palm Beach [well, Palm Beach-adjacent] Olive Garden couldn't stand the noise coming from the kids at the next table, so he grabbed a couple of beers and headed out the emergency exit slide. Oh wait, no....
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Anorak Activity Book

The fine folks at Anorak, Britain's hippest, cutest, indie kids magazine, have just released their first Happy Activity Book for Kids. I doubt there's a single princess in it. That alone would make it worth every ha'penny. Happy Activity...
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Pepper?

Oy, trying to explain to these kids that I'm not their waiter. Just the guy standing next to the table, grating fresh parmesan onto their butterfly pasta....
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August 9, 2010

Once You Have Black,

You maybe should lower your opening bid. Especially considering a mint-in-box Creative Playthings steamroller without the beat, aftermarket paint job went for just $45 shipped. Creative Playthings U.S.A. Vintage Wood STEAMROLLER, opening bid, $19.95 + 9.55 s/h, auction ends...
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August 8, 2010

Actually, This Van IS A-Rockin'

All y'all who ever laughed and said it was a waste of time to set up an eBay saved search for "shaggin' wagon" can now eat dirt:ALL ORIGINAL 1977 Dodge Ram Van tradesman B200 3/4 TON 318 8-CYLINDER CUSTOM...
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August 6, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Purpose Of Breastfeeding/Life Edition

Did you ever lay awake, wondering if maybe breastfeeding, and thus, all of human existence, isn't really just a big plot by Bifidobacterium longum to replicate itself, and our human infants' intestines are just its most convenient incubator? UPDATE: Science...
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Park Slope Prepping Proletariat Progeny

Our friends Ron and Jodi find themselves tweeting from the front lines of The Coming Revolution--in Park Slope. Come for the family-friendly space and 10-minute Wall Street commutes, stay for the overthrow of capitalism!At final drama camp performance for my...
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Cargo Bikes Transform New York Into Family Paradise

I've been meaning to post this ode to the new ideal for city family transportation, the cargo bike, but it's been stuck on my other computer. No word on how a cargo bike fares with 100-degree heat or 3rd floor...
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Chapman Brothers Colouring Contest

Though Jake and Dinos Chapman's artworks generally include children--well, child-lookin' demonspawn with dicks for noses--it's rarely been for children. Now for some indiscernible reason, the Guardian's G2Kids section is sponsoring a colouring contest for kids ages 6-13. The winners...
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August 4, 2010

This Just In! Not Working Really Impacts Your Income

A mishmash of factoids and the impending confirmation of the second kid-free woman to the US Supreme Court means proves that people are basically shooting themselves in the foot careerwise by having a kid. And by people, e NY Times...
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Really? Angelo Mangiarotti Plywood Bunk Beds?

They're long gone from Swedish designshop Jacksons, but last year, kiddesignblog Handmade Charlotte posted this awesome, if somewhat treacherous-looking, slot-together plywood bunkbed, and said it was from the 1960s by Angelo Mangiarotti. [Actually they said it's be Angelo Manglarotti,...
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August 3, 2010

Welcome To My World

We spent the day in Zion National Park, and we are exhausted. [And wondering if there are any Dutch people left in the Netherlands, but that's a question for another day] In peak season, you have to take shuttle buses...
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Have You Seen Me, The FAO Schwarz Range Rover?

So we had that bit about the FAO Schwarz Ferrari Testarossa, with a 5hp Briggs & Stratton motor and leather interior. But before that, through most of the 1990's, in fact, FAO's high-concept go-kart was apparently a Range Rover. With...
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August 2, 2010

Volveww

We saw this diaper parked on top of a Volvo on a walk to the playground. Kind of disgusting. On the bright side, station wagons live!...
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Update: Segway Rider Is Heroic Aunt, Not Lazy Mom

Back in 2007, DT posted this Gizmodo photo of a Seattle Segway-riding woman pushing a stroller. While the post and DT readers' commenters were nowhere near as dickish as Gizmodo's, I will follow that site's lead and issue a...
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DT Monday Mommy Mailbag

Partly because I've been promptly deleting most of them (hi BlogHer!) and partly because I'm on vacation, the mommy marketing mailbag is pretty empty today:Moms are getting their advice from social networks. Whether you are a retailer or a manufacturer,...
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