Daddy Types: December 2010 Archives

December 2010 Archives

December 29, 2010

Bloggers Wanted, Must Have Twitter, Uterus

DT's senior work-life correspondent DT spotted this promising-looking employment opportunity on craigslist:"Mommy" Blogger (Boston, MA) Job Description: Triple Point Interactions is currently recruiting social media savvy mothers that are well respected within their communities to post/tweet about our clients products...
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December 28, 2010

Curious George Busts Outta Rikers

I'm sitting here worrying my kid's gonna leave Sundance thinking it's normal to turn on a fireplace with a lightswitch. And then I read this story about dads on Rikers recording themselves reading books to kids they can't see, and...
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Go To Hell, Squinkies, You Spammy Little Choke Hazards

I go away for a couple of days, and what happens? DT gets comment spammed into the ground by some broke-ass fad toy pushers and their gumball machine-sized, Walmart-optimized, designed-by-the-Chinese-factory, mommyblogger-astoturfed, collect'em all! Pieces of rubbery crap. I'm talking about...
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December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas To All*

* to all those who celebrate it, that is. The rest of you, have a glorious day of Chinese food and Tron. The Daddy Types clan is currently reveling in the warm embrace of my in-laws' new router, and will...
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December 22, 2010

Seriously, With The Pillow Petz

Holy crap, Pillow Petz. Advertising the hell out of those things on whatever jr. Getting inside the brains. Warping their fragile little minds with purchasing urges. Then stuffing all the endcaps at the giant drugstore chains, kicking Zhu Zhu Petz...
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Gloria Who? Knu Tries The Knockoff Approach To Selling The Red Ball Rocker

There's no doubt that it's a children's design classic. The question is, whose? A few years back, Knu was contracted to manufacture the "Red Ball Rocker" for DWR, a knockoff/reissue of the innovative molded ply Hobby Horse Gloria Caranica...
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December 21, 2010

Audi Pedal Car Sport May Actually Work

You know, DT reader/car guru DT makes an excellent point: most pedal cars are ergonomically awful, with pedals that require powerlifter thighs to get anywhere. [You remember trying to get that rusty old pedal car going when you were...
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Rip + Tatter Cardboard Chair By Pete Oyler

This may be the coolest cardboard kid chair I've seen since the disposable car seat in Papanek & Hennessey's Nomadic Furniture. Which is, I'm sure, exactly what SaferCar.gov wanted to advertise next to ["Safer than a cardboard box!"] Anyway,...
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December 20, 2010

Enzo Mari Children's Table & Chairs?

Dear Internet, please tell me more about these plastic chairs, which our correspondent in Paris saw at the Musee d'Art Decoratif, and which are apparently by Enzo Mari? Because when I try to dig up info on them, I...
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Ford C-Max Thinks Of The Customers With Packages

The press release reads, "INDUSTRY-FIRST, HANDS-FREE LIFTGATE FROM FORD OFFERS REAL KICK FOR CUSTOMERS WITH PACKAGES," and I'm like, "Finally, thinking of the dads!" But as the YouTube montage above reveals, they're actually talking about how the rear tailgate...
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DadTherapy's Cars Of The Year

DT reader/hero/blogger/cars.com guru Dave has just published his own very dad-savvy Favorite Cars Of 2011. Which, in the odd dating and embargo-jumping system used in the automotive press world, makes perfect sense. High five to the Jetta, Touareg, the Honda...
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DT Friday [sic] Freakout: Golden Helicopter Awards

Ready for a little Monday Freakout? Good. Then go read Leonore Skenazy's Golden Helicopter Awards, which conveniently rounds up a year's worth of stupid and/or inspired overparenting stories in one big, eyerolling article. If this were on Huffington Post, it'd...
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December 17, 2010

Ladybug Plays With Sprinkles!

As if ladybugs needed any more fawning PR. Ladybug plays with sprinkles! [youtube via boingboing, where all the fun is taken out of the video in the comments]...
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Holiday Elfabet By Roy Doty

Mark posted the awesome Christmas card veteran illustrator Roy Doty sent out this year. It is awesome, and "elfabet" is the funniest joke K2 has ever heard. Did I mention it is awesome? Roy Doty's 2010 Christmas Card [boingboing]...
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December 16, 2010

I Want To See 'Toys Of The Avant Garde'

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Wooden Toy painted by Pablo Picasso c. 1920s Painted wood and metal 23.5 x 36 x 23 cm Private collection. Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Málaga 2010 I've...
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December 15, 2010

36 Pages: Craig Frazier

If you're a fan of great children's book illustration, you probably already know about artist/author Craig Frazier's blog, 36 Pages, which features posts about the creative process, great kids books from the past and present, and occasional stories about...
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Sweet Wagons You Can't Get In The US, Voll. 430

In a sure sign that Hyundai is reaching for a new level of sophistication and quality in its family car design, it is preparing to unveil an awesome-looking new, European-designed wagon--which won't be available in the US. Just like...
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December 14, 2010

DTQ: Can We Come Up With A Deadlier Name For Crib Bumpers?

DT reader Seth is onto something here:Even referring to them as bumpers is misleading as the name implies (as with cars) some added element of safety or protection.So if you wanted to accurately reflect the safety risks they pose to...
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Dust Me! La Quadra Cradle By Mario Ceroli

I feel like I could blog off of this Pierre Bergé Design for Kids auction for weeks. [Actually, I feel like I've already blogged about 3/4 of it over the last six years.] But this jumped out at me:...
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Everything Must Go! Massive Kids Design Auction In Brussels This Weekend

Holy crap, is there going to be anything left? Non. Every single piece of vintage kid-related design in Europe is being sold at auction this Thursday. Just look at just one photo of just one corner of the Pierre...
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Sweet Station Wagons You Can Get In The US, Vol. 1

You'd think that after so many years of lamenting all the awesome, new family-friendly, station wagons that don't come to the US, automakers would wise up, or I'd give up. In truth, it's a very little of both. The...
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December 13, 2010

Hidden Hazard? Hidden From Whom? CPSC Finally Launching A Crib Bumper Investigation

Crib bumpers were invented by ace salesman Leo Koltun because after selling every returning GI's knocked up wife a playpen pad made from WWII surplus padding, he still had a shitload of padding left over. The company he founded, Kolcraft,...
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December 11, 2010

Awesome 1800s Doll House

I'm sure it's painted with lead and arsenic, but this 1800s dollhouse in original condition is pretty awesome. Too bad [one of] the previous owner Nancy Allen isn't related; I totally would've fought my cousins for this. Massive Early...
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Another Day, Another Kid In A Claw Machine

Gawker calls it a trend. Frankly, it's been a couple of years since I've heard of a kid climbing into one of those ripoff toy claw game machines, so technically, it's a revival. What I can't quite figure out...
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Neuhart Santa Poster In The House

I recently had the brilliant idea of putting silver leaf on 50 pairs of wax lips. My wife thought I was crazy--and she was right--but her help also saved the project. I thought of this as I was reading...
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December 10, 2010

Still Time To Enter The DT 33d & 00d Giveaway!

The ad for the awesome plush Pee & Poo dolls is still running, which means there's still time to enter the drawing for a 7 oz. bag of custom-printed, 33d & 00d M&Ms. Click on the drawing entry for...
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The Name Is Baby WEE-Pay

Remember when you got that email in 2004 asking you to send Costco baby wipes to the Troops because they were, uh, perfect for getting the Iraqi sand out of their rifles? No? Remember when the company you'd just merged...
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iPhone Baby Quilt

First off, a high five to Grandma Harriet. This is absolutely incredible work. Definitely one of the top two iPhone baby gifts a grandma could give. But also, nice hustle on getting the domain name for the kid. Mazel...
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December 9, 2010

This Is What It's Come To

Having a kid will make you do things that will be unrecognizable to your pre-kid self. Like sitting here on eBay, getting ready to snipe just the right vintage Madame Alexander doll for Christmas....
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Gucci: Buy It For The Children

Santa Maria Novella Guccia, Padre Figlio e Spirito Santo! Gucci has had a long, ridiculous tradition of offering stunt gifts for babies and other pets. Now they've gone and created an actual Gucci Children's Collection. Two collections, actually, one for...
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December 8, 2010

Small Child Once Lived In Large Loft

The other day I came across this book, Converted into Houses, from an era, 1976, where the idea of converting a loft or industrial building into a house was still novel enough to hang a book proposal on. Nothing...
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O Holy Crap, I'm Bald!

The Onion A.V. Club and their Holiday Undercover vodka sponsor are proud to present Andrew W.K.'s wild rendition of "Silent Night." Remarkably, it's safe to share with the kid, unless you're worried about him going berserk and banging on...
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Praise The Lord And Pass The Video Camera

"Baby Worship." So many amusing/annoying ways to go with this video of a Lakeland, Florida 2yo named Ava Grace doing exactly what 2yo's do: mimicking the actions and expressions of those around her in exchange for positive reinforcement. There's...
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December 7, 2010

¡MOM A DT 33d & 00d Giveaway!

I'm so glad to see Pee & Poo, the cuddly toys from Sweden, advertising on Daddy Types again; I think they're awesome. And with free shipping through December, there really is no better time to buy. But to celebrate,...
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Lamborghini In The Car Pool Lane

The Sterns of New Hyde Park, NY shared a passion for Italian exotic cars, and not in that trailer queeny way, either. Stanley, rest his soul, put 160,000 miles on his 1980 Maserati Quattroporte. Presumably because the whole dreidl...
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December 6, 2010

Binz XTEND: The #1 Mod For Mercedes Enhancement

Seriously, I don't think I'd be seen in the XTEND, the super-extended wheelbase E-Class wagon by Binz, longtime hearse-modders to the [3-pointed] stars, even if I was dead. Of course, the fact that all they have to show so...
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Happiness Is A Warm Platinum 2-Disc Collectors Edition

We've been wracking our brains, trying to figure out where we went wrong, and frankly, we're stumped. In the last couple of weeks, instead of her traditional polkadot blankie, K2 has been demanding to snuggle a stack of Disney DVDs....
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December 4, 2010

Idiocracy On The March: The Andrew Show For White Kids

Holy crap. From our man in WTFistan comes "The Andrew Show." It's like somebody remaking Wonder Showzen as cinema vérité, starring their own kid. Racist Child is America's Greatest Pundit [wonkette via dt senior correspondent jj daddy-o]...
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I Even Made A Film About Ironing Once, And This Is Depressing

Hi, I just got back from schmoozing with the NetJetset in Miami Beach at the world's most money-soaked art fair, so now let me post the world's most depressing children's Christmas present! Forget the gender stereotypes of the JC...
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December 2, 2010

Grayscale Big Wheel

Forget whatever I just posted about the confusing morass of The Original Big Wheels. If it actually looks this awesome, I'll pay cash money right now for this grayscale Mighty Wheels, and I wouldn't care how long it took...
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Who Gets The Original Big Wheel?

Have you tried looking for an old-school Big Wheel for your kid? What a e-commerce shitshow. There are, of course, Big Wheel-like products in whatever bigbox store you visit, but the pull of nostalgia is strong, and the dream...
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December 1, 2010

Idiocracy On The March: The Liberal Claus

You'd think that with the great flowering on the right wing of American politics the last couple of years, nurtured and fed in the rich, fecund intellectual soil the Bush administration tilled for all those years, that we would...
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The Mozart Effect Of Sports

I could say the lack of posting around here is because I've been in a work crunch, and because everyone's sick at home, and because I've been doubling up nights, prepping for a presentation in Miami Friday. But the real...
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