Daddy Types: March 2011 Archives

March 2011 Archives

March 31, 2011

DT Mommy Mailbag: State School Edition

I know it's not Monday, but this just dropped into the DT Mommy Mailbag. Plus, it's good advice for all the Moms whose kids just bombed the ERB and are going to end up putting in an extra year at...
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March 30, 2011

Road To Kindergarten

DT reader Micah was freaky right when he said I wouldn't care about the content of the wired.com story, but the second he saw the completely unrelated photo, he knew it was a DT kind of thing. No idea...
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Kid Sized Hummer From Posh Tots, Kid-Sized John Stamos Not Included

We haven't talked about Posh Tots around here much lately, probably because, well, why would we? Anyway, DT reader/hero DT spotted this incredible [sic] Child's Off Roader for sale, for just $32,350. Can you imagine? You might have to,...
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March 29, 2011

Pica Who?

I am really not following. Some study, or I guess a whole book, about how frequently pregnant women in different cultures eat dirt. It's from Columbia University, so I'm going to assume it's real. Apparently, the practice is called pica,...
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Get Into My Crafty Swedish Jean Pocket Sleeper!

OhmyheckImgonnadie, all of Elisabeth's friends are just as adorably crafty as she is! Here's Anna, who whipped up a baby sleeping bag from a hundred pairs of old jeans she had lying around. Because they are closer to the...
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Don't Touch The Screen

In the most recent episode of Don't Touch The Screen, his awesome new podcast for webnerds with kids, Charlie Park talks with Matt Haughey about the challenges of working at home with kids. The fact that it took me two+...
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19th Century Post-Mortem Infant Photos: A Thinkpiece By Mark Dery

Near's I can tell, Boing Boing guestblogger Mark Dery is writing his biography of of weird, little, Goth illustrator guru Edward Gorey, starts researching Gorey's interest in collecting once-common, long-forgotten, Victorian-era post-mortem photographs and daguerrotypes of children and babies,...
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No Times For Playtimes

I want to think it's dedication, or even just a fantasy, but I know it's a delusion. Even when K2's pre-school's seemingly endless Spring Break ends tomorrow, I have too much going on to ever surf through the British Library's...
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March 28, 2011

Mickey Reacharound Maternity T-Shirt

As I mentioned before, when we got off our Disney Cruise at 8:30 in the freaking morning, we had plenty of time to take any flight, anywhere. But instead, we decided to tack on a 3/4 day at Disney...
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Yoko Ono Birth Announcement

While in Tokyo in 1963, pioneering performance and Fluxus artist Yoko Ono sent out this little, 3-card set of poems, art works and photographs to let friends back in the US know of the birth of her daughter Kyoko....
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March 25, 2011

Do You Know Me? The Flat-Sided Mystery Crib

DT reader David still has a few months left to figure out who makes this crib and where he can buy one. Or at least one like it. The folks modeling the bedding have no idea who the manufacturer...
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Princess Is In The Script

Here's something I noticed inside the Disney Experience: every cast member will call your girl, "Princess." "Good morning, princess!" "Are you going ashore, princess?" "Have a magical day, princess!" It is part of the script. And there's really nothing...
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March 24, 2011

Sounds Like Fun Times In The Playgroup

Sometimes, blog posts are like a half-drunk sippy cup of milk. Sure, you could finish them right away, but if you tuck them away in the folds of your stroller canopy and just let them sit for a couple of...
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Wanted: Kids-Eye View Of Tate Museum

Is a free [working] trip to London worth so much to you you'd strap cameras on your family's heads and run around Tate Modern for two days? Then this is the pseudo-contest/audition for you! [kids.tate.org.uk via I forget]...
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March 23, 2011

Now That's A Black Flag I'd Like To See

Thomas Pluck kills it with his Punk Dad Manifesto in The Morning News. As an accomplished fiction writer, he somehow manages to conjure up a vivid image of a stultifying suburban hellscape, despite living in an idyllic, master-planned development outside...
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March 22, 2011

Suffering Sappho, It's Amazon Babysitter!

Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman's on the way to help the baby T-Rex and save the day She's written like crap, And she's not too buff, But throw some mythological references in the mix, and I guess you've got the...
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Strollers Of The Caribbean

Alright, I'm back. And I've got a small stack of Disney Cruise-related posts to get to, but last things first: we tacked a visit to Disney World onto the [wrong] end of our trip. Despite having once worked for The...
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March 19, 2011

This iPad app review makes me weep bittersweet tears

You know, I feared the dadblogging world might descend into chaos while I was Cruising around the Bahamas on Disney's Buy 'N Largest new oceanliner (seriously, did you know Wall-E was a documentary?). But it turns out I didn't need...
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March 16, 2011

All Fred Roger's Children

You know, even more than most TV people, the soap opera industry is a pretty stilted bunch of folks, but watching Fred Rogers get inside their heads and feel human for even a few seconds is a real treat....
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The Committee Car, by Brad Denboer

I always knew those Julian Opie characters were up to no good. Designer Brad Denboer just released The Committee, a limited-edition, old-timey iron-shaped toy car with an ominous story built right in. The price was not announced, but since...
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The Family Of An Unidentifiable Man

Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj has a knack for photographing photographs. Lucaites writes very thoughtfully on the universal power of this photo, for example, of family photo albums buried amidst the rubble of the Japanese tsunami. But I have to...
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March 15, 2011

Hahaha, They Put 'The Ivy League' In Quotes

Holy Moses, I've been writing this blog post a thousand times in my head since yesterday. From the NY Daily News comes news that an Over-Upper East Side mother is suing the ["$19,000-a-year"] York Avenue Preschool for "damaging [her] 4-year-old...
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Homebrewed Sci-Fi Growth Chart By Geeky Dad

This is so awesome. Geeky Dad made this growth chart for his daughter, who has rocketed past Tribbles and is now closing in on Yoda. It's available as a 7-foot long PDF. Geeky Growth Chart by Geeky Dad [geeky-dad...
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No, We Do Not All Live In A Yellow Submarine.

Just when you begin to think that the news is nothing but one catastrophic disaster after another, and the world's going to hell in a handbasket, a story like this reminds you that there's still hope for the human race....
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March 14, 2011

Whoa, Pierre Berge!

You may remember Pierre Berge & Associes from such insane auctions as his partner Yves Saint Laurent's, and that out-of-nowhere Designs for Kids sale last winter. Next up, toward the end of the month, is the deceptively titled Shabby...
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Kid City: Silkscreened Ply Storyge Furniture

You may know Richard Shed from such designblog-ogenic creations as screwhead tape and Keith's console. But it turns out he's now got some kids somewhere, because he and Noel Bramley have been collaborating on an investigation of "the interaction...
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March 13, 2011

House Of Cash Museum Coloring Book, Part 3

Only three installments in, and I'm already behind. Here are the next few pages in the DT House of Cash Museum Coloring Book: Page 4: "The only thing that's real" Page 5: "The needle tears a hole" Page 6: "The...
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We Are Our Kids' First Immune System

One in 4 women have the Group B Streptococcus bacteria naturally occurring in their digestive tracts and/or vaginas. One in 200 women who test positive for GBS between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy and who are not treated with...
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March 11, 2011

5 Top Tips For Managing Your Mombloggers

Dear Marketers, Publicists, and Branding Folks, It's true, mombloggers are hot and on trend right now, and they can be a smart part of your savvy social media campaign! But they can also be sensitive, temperamental, tricky to deal with....
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Mister Smartypants And Little Miss MLA

So what you're saying, Amazon UK reviewer Hamilton Richardson, is that maybe I was wrong, and ad man Roger Hargreaves did not create the Mister Men and Little Miss series purely as a merchandise licensing scheme, but as an ambitious...
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The Black Hole--For Kids!

The only thing I really remember about Disney's The Black Hole is that it was the company's first PG-rated film. Also that it kind of sucked. Neither of those things kept Disney from merchandising it for little kids, though. As...
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It's The North Korean Guitar Players Who Got Small

Congratulations to the five finalists in North Korea's national "play this song perfectly on a guitar that's way too big for you, and you'll get a bowl of rice this month" contest! Interesting trivia tidbit: Great Leader Kim Jong...
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March 9, 2011

Teddy Bearskin Rugs

Miami-based artist Agustina Woodgate has been making elaborate rugs from the skins of recycled teddy bears for a couple of years now. They'd look pretty intense under one of those Campana Brothers stuffed animal chairs. Rugs | Agustina Woodgate...
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March 8, 2011

Prius Wagon? Prius V? Prius Mazda3?

Frankly, the three most interesting things in this autonews article about the new Toyota "Prius Wagon" are: 1) the totally implausible claim that a 1.2-inch increase in driver's seat height produces a "more vanlike command"; 2) the use of...
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Vaccines Come In On Little Ninja Feet

See, it's the little differences. Whereas for us in the West it's the fabricated threats of autism, in Japan, it's the sudden spate of infant deaths that sets the vaccine panics off. Prevenar, or Prevnar, manufactured by Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis,...
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Who? Where? What? Pedal Car Museum?

East Sussex's most famous pedal car enthusiast and child at heart Phil Collins has thrown open the doors on his Mill Toy & Pedal Car Museum, which boasts Europe's largest collection of vintage pedal cars. Or does it? We...
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March 7, 2011

Does A Cookie Monster Wear A Necktie?

If you thought over-entitled addicts raging out of control for our cringe-inducing entertainment began with Charlie Sheen, you haven't seen this Spring 2001 Martha Stewart Living appearance by Cookie Monster. It's truly, awesomely depressing. Now that he's out of...
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Double Baby Buggy Pimpers: Phil & Teds Deal On Amazon

Maybe it's because spring is in the air, and peoples' (and marketers') thoughts naturally turn to new cycles of reproduction. Or perhaps the news of recent recalls have bitten off a chunk of sales. Either way, there are only...
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March 6, 2011

Josef Hoffmann Kids Furniture

I think Vienna textile manufacturer Max Biach's daughter Katharina was a teenager in 1902 when Josef Hoffmann designed this bedroom for her, but it's still sweet enough to stare at. The Neue Galerie included Biach's reassembled bedroom in their...
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March 4, 2011

House of Cash Museum Coloring Book, Part 2

Alright, here are a couple more pages from the in-progress, House of Cash Museum Coloring Book. Note that these pages bracket the first installment: the opulent bowl of fruit is page 0, and the closeup is Page 3. They...
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March 3, 2011

Dune Coloring Books

Looks like I picked the wrong week to try to out-crazy the Coloring Book Industrial Complex. Here are some of Coilhouse's scans from the four [!] six [!!] Dune Coloring and Activity Books tied, obviously, to the movie. Whether...
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Rastamouse Be Heah To Make A Bad Ting Good

Rastamouse is apparently a real thing. The first book, Rastamouse and the Crucial Plan, came out in the UK way back in 2005, but it must not have caught on in the US, because the publisher, Little Roots, didn't...
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Coming Soon: House Of Cash Museum Coloring Book

Page 1: "I hurt myself today/ to see if I still feel." I couldn't let my disappointment in the Country Music Wax Museum Coloring Book ruin my day, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. Page 3:...
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Help Me, Obiwalt Disney, You're My Only Hope

Despite our best efforts--and even after clearing the princess hurdle with the first one--K2 is deep, deep in the throes of Disney Princess mania. We mitigate it by filling out the princess and fairy tale repertoire with non-Disney models,...
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You Can Have It All, My Coloring Book Empire Of Dirt

Now don't get me wrong, it's pretty bad. But somehow The Country Music Wax Museum Coloring Book just is not as awful as you really want it to be. Oh, on the other hand, here's the last line from Jack...
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Spectacular Ed.

This incredible 4x9-ft yarn art panel was apparently a gift to the Kansas City Public School System in the 1970s. It was made by special education students to celebrate mainstreaming. And now that the public school system is being...
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March 2, 2011

Press Is Best

Looking back at the last handful of posts, I am struck by how much practical advice and must-have gear Daddy Types continues to provide the new dad community. That's what we're here for: news you can use. And so, this:...
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March 1, 2011

Mushroom Cloud Playhouse By Dietrich Wegner

OK, now we're talking. Though I fear it's no realer than the brand tattoos on his naked babies, Dietrich Wegner's mushroom cloud playhouse is apocalawesome. It was at Pulse Art Fair in 2009. Again, I think with a commission...
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Dietrich Wegner-Brand Tattooed Babies

Dietrich Wegner showed his Cumulous Brand series at Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago in 2009. They show babies covered in full-body tattoos of corporate logos. Frankly, though they're obviously awesome, I liked them even more after reading the first...
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El VW Bulli

Hell hath no fury like a VW Microbus fan scorned. Ten years after the first perfect one, which was unceremoniously killed, VW has unveiled yet another Microbus revival concept. Only this time it's for real, or whatever. It's supposed...
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