Daddy Types: November 2010 Archives

November 2010 Archives

November 29, 2010

That's No Printing. Star Wars Kids Apron

That's Yoda's embroidered head. Embroidered Boba Fett. This apron is somehow both stupider and cooler than the Darth Vader Spatula. Personalized Kids' Star Wars Apron, $20-25 [williams-sonoma via kottke] Look! I'm your father's Star Wars apron! $30 or $40...
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November 28, 2010

Citroen Puzzles From Rosie's Factory

I OWN a Citroen and this makes no sense. And you know what? That's just fine. From their history, I gather that the Belgian wooden puzzle company Rosie's Factory produces an oddly exhaustive collection of vintage car puzzles for...
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Breast Milk Of Mass Distraction

Look, I'm as outraged as the next guy who has to have his nuts groped during the TSA's Master Security Theater, but 11 minutes? Couldn't someone boil down the hour of ridiculous harrassment of this "known mom" who opts...
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November 26, 2010

Kenny Scharf's Awesome Baby Bouncer & Crib Of Death

It took two-and-a-half years, but I finally found a picture of the crazy crib downtown artist Kenny Scharf made in the early 1980s for his daughter Zena. It's a snap of a book of Scharf's work posted on Art...
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November 24, 2010

Ausgezeichnet! Der Bebe Gebirthin' Auf Street View

As it happens, I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at the just-launched German cityscapes of Google Street View. I've been doing this primarily for aesthetic reasons--I really like the way Google pre-emptively blurs out the houses...
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November 23, 2010

Adorable WASP Moppetwear By CPC Designs

The wife picked up one of these cute little CPC Design corduroy jumpers--made in Philadelphia! Design your own from the many grosgrain ribbon and monogramming options available!--for K2 at the Junior League's Holiday Trunk Show. But then, you could...
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If You Lived In Blackwater Estates, You'd Be Under House Arrest Now!

Wow, that TSA security theater sheeple post was depressing! How about a nice, thoughtful music video from NAFTA's reigning quirk champs, Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze? It's being described as "excerpts" from a Jonze short film, Scenes From The...
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November 22, 2010

We're All Black Men Now, Honey

I recently happened to have dinner with a senior federal law enforcement official who happens to be acquainted with the head of the TSA. It was right before the TSA's aggressive, invasive new genital-grabbing or naked photography search protocols were...
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The Underpants Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Car guru/dadblogger/DT hero Dave is live-tweeting his kid's first big day of toilet training. Let's just say that so far, there is no stagefright. After a super-low-to-no-key approach based primarily on our own laziness, K2's about a week into full...
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But Your High Chair Ain't Got No Legs, Gunnar Daan

While we were in Amsterdam, we spent a lot of time in de Pijp, the neighborhood around the several blocks-long Albert Cuyp Markt which, once past the Heineken Museum, feels pretty normal and tourist-free. It's where we stumbled upon...
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November 21, 2010

OGMB: 1956 Mercedes Benz 300C Wagon

This 1956 Mercedes 300C was created by Binz for a Manhattan/Palm Beach client. In the Spring, it was the subject of all the glamour shots and genteel prose Amelia Island's classic car collectors require before parting with their $242,000....
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November 20, 2010

Some Michelins Were Harmed In The Making Of This Film

A guy burning rubber in a Cadillac station wagon. A guy dancing maniacally in a Michelin Man costume. A group of junketeering bloggers filming the whole thing with their free Flip cameras. Sometimes it seems like the wrong jobs...
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November 19, 2010

A Children's Treasury Of Mark E. Smith Verse

I'm getting bombarded with Holiday Gift List Tip? pitches right now. But all I want for Christmas is for Erik to hurry up and finish his insanely awesome children's book version of The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith's lyrics. A...
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November 18, 2010

Superfresh Superlicensing! Keith Haring Superbib Drops At Duane Reade

Dude, this is so sick! Just when I thought the Tommy Hilfiger rainboot mashup would go down as the Keith Haring Estate's edgiest kid-colabo of the year, they pull this out of their sleeves! Just peep these rad bibs!...
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On The Bright Side, Maybe Trig Didn't Notice They Were Gone

It seems that immediately after their 2.5yo son Trig had an operation, Todd and Sarah Palin left Alaska for five days of campaigning and speechmaking on the East Coast. As a parent, I cannot imagine ever doing that. But if...
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أنا ♥ نيويورك Onesies & T-shirts, Kid Not Included

A couple of months back, I had the great idea of copying a flyer that started appearing on lampposts in downtown Manhattan about nine years and one month ago, and silkscreening it onto Onesies and kid-sized T-shirts. A bunch of...
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But We Don't Eat Elephant

DT reader Micaela sends along this rather awesomely cute food alphabet graphics collection from Bay Area etsy seller ilovelalalu. K is for Kimchi, B is for Burrito, but somehow F is not for Food Truck. And wait, is that...
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'They Put A New Sign On Papa's Liquor Store!'

This has been another episode of Shit K2 says that she picked up from me, and then repeated to my incredulous wife the next time they were in the car. Tune in next week for Episode114: "It's not butt, it's...
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November 17, 2010

Help You This Public Service Announcement Will

Alright, this is pretty damn funny. And by funny, I mean totally serious. [via dt reader eric]...
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Audi, VW: There Are Some Substitutes.

Just in time for me not to bid on it while the wife was out of town, DT reader DT sent along a link to this nice-looking, low-miles, 2002 Audi A6 3.0 Avant, which sold at auction Saturday for...
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El Lissitzky Was The Suprematist Leo Leonni

Seriously. In addition to evangelizing the Russian brand of Constructivism across post-WWI Europe, El Lissitzky illustrated Yiddish children's books. I'll be looking for some of those. [aha, thanks, Lorenzo de Medici!] Also this delightful bedtime favorite, Suprematist Story of...
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Hellz Yeah, I Retweeted That!

[via @rachelsklar]...
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November 16, 2010

So Far, I Count Two Phil & Teds Sub4 Joggers

I've given them some grief, but I've also gotta give Phil & Teds credit: they are totally owning a city double stroller market that coulda/shoulda/mighta been Bugaboo's; their campaigns and products are solidly dad-friendly; and even when it doesn't...
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November 15, 2010

Monday Male Mutilation Mailbag

It's remarkable how quickly circumcision rates have been plummeting in the US in the last couple of years. I figure it's people stepping stepping back and actually thinking through the logic and implications of "I want him to look like...
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Steampunk-Lite: Ironwork High Chair

Still trying to identify the manufacturer or designer of this awesome-if-deadly, vintage bent steel high chair. Take a look and take a guess! But while researching online, I did find this rather cool-looking early 20th century, twisted steel rod &...
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November 13, 2010

Strange Pedal Car Fruit

I know if I were in the Forbes 400 like David Whitemire Hearst Jr., and I had a foundation set up to hold my collection of pristine and/or restored pedal cars, I'd certainly lend them to a museum. But...
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Where Do Jokey, Old Training Diapers For Expectant Fathers Come From?

I posted about this joke "Training Diaper for Expectant Fathers" when I first scored it on eBay, and it wasn't really funny then. Recently, I saw a new product or whatever that reminded me of it, and so I...
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November 12, 2010

Underpants

Gotta hand it to her, K2 figured out a foolproof way to alleviate the anxiety of the first naptime with real underpants: she fell asleep in her sister's bed....
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November 11, 2010

@#&*$ Yeah, Kidswear

Every day I wake up and worry it was all a dream, but then I hit the browser, and F#*& Yeah, Menswear is still there, and still killing: Nature vs. nurture? It's tough to say. When you're DNA is this...
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But There IS An I In I-Beam

Ooh boy, if you thought the cantilevering was dramatic... The New York Times leaves unmentioned the complicated calculations that went into the creation of Madrid architect Anton Garcia Abril's house for his wife and two kids. And I'm not...
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November 10, 2010

And To Think That I Saw It On Vijzelstraat

I wasn't able to figure out the maker of this dress with a doll sling knit into it, but I don't think it's the same as the company that makes this tattoo-covered creeper/pajama thing. Maybe a fashionista out there...
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This Sesame Street Remix Is Brought To You By The Letters W, T & F

Although part of me thinks it'd be hilarious for you to sit down like I just did, with the kid across the table, and click on the apparently amusing Sesame Street remix these young hip-hop fellows have made, and...
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November 9, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Makeup Edition

Yeah yeah, whatever, our trip out of town this week means I've got a bagful of freakout with your name on it: Now now, New York, don't even try to compare your piddly little elevated lead levels in drinking water...
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CLS Shooting Brake? Sure, Just Bring It To The States, And I'll Call It Whatever You Want

Monday's the day the automotive press gets spoonfed its scoops about things like the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake, the station wagon that isn't a wagon, just like the 4-door coupe isn't a sedan. Whatever, I'm sure there are families...
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November 8, 2010

Family Fiets!

This was by far the biggest bike I saw in Holland this weekend that did not involve a keg of beer. [After seeing our fifth or sixth beerfiets, we decided they're the perfect solution for keeping drunk, foreign hooligans...
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Would I Lytot You? Those Are Pacifier-Sunglasses.

Oh, did I drive the Mrs. crazy while we were walking around Amsterdam this weekend. Actually, she'd just keep walking whenever I some kid-related freakshow would catch my eye, and I'd have to stop and take a picture. These,...
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November 7, 2010

So What'd YOU Sell This Weekend?

Nice. While I was busy celebrating the sale this weekend of our five-year-old stroller for $250, Marc Lore and Vinnie Bhahara finally sold their five-year-old company, Diapers.com, to Amazon for $540 million. And if the price and the algorithmic optimization...
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November 4, 2010

Area Man Apparently About To Trade Bugaboo For A Dinner [Sitter Not Included]

I'm headed to the airport, long weekend in Amsterdam. The eBay auction for our awesome Bugaboo Cameleon ends in a couple of hours, and right now, it looks like I'll clear enough to take the Mrs. to a nice little...
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Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participations No. 1 [through 3,000]

You know what, maybe things weren't all awesomer and more exciting back in the olden days, when people lined up on Lexington Avenue to get the newest "chic Christmas gift of 1969" at Bloomingdale's. And when they used to...
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But I Thought Velma And Fred Were The Gay Ones

A mom worked hard to help her Scooby Doo-loving 5-yo son wear his Daphne costume to the preschool Halloween party, and she would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for the meddling moms at the drop-off. The ones...
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November 3, 2010

What Happens In Vegas: The Swagger Wagon Supreme

Mad family props to Toyota for trying to stretch the grating-but-attention-getting Swagger Wagon thing as far as it can go. And I mean that literally: they unveiled a Swagger Wagon Supreme at SEMA in Las Vegas, and it is...
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November 2, 2010

'Short Rest': Kid-Size Shopping Cart Chair By Stiletto

Though he got the idea of making chairs out of shopping carts from his mother in 1983, Berlin-based designer Frank Schreiner didn't start cranking out the actual merch until 1990. The kid-sized model, called the "Short Rest," originally sold...
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Area Man Selling Awesome Bugaboo

Hey look at that, 2005. That must have been in the first containerload of Cameleons to leave the factory. Hey, look at that, it has the same practically invisible and certainly inconsequential tear on the underside of the foam...
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November 1, 2010

Knit Alpaca Pigeon Infinitely Adorabler Than The Real Thing

I think I've solved the whole "handmade toys unfairly banned by unfairly monolithic CPSC lead regulations" problem: just charge a bunch of money for it. Then you can plausibly argue that the toy in question couldn't possibly be intended...
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Oh Kay! Bojesen Menagerie At Wright20

So you want a whole nurseryful of vintage Kay Bojesen wooden animals, but you've only got a couple of months before the kid arrives? No problem, Wright20's got your cost-no-object request covered. Though be sure to request the condition...
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Just In Time For Anti-Christmas, The Omen Trike Can Now Be Yours

Sorry, kid in The Shining, but this is probably the freak-outiest tricycle in cinema history. Though the price estimate for this auction is nowhere near as scary as the 2008 original. And if it doesn't sell, brace yourself for...
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