Daddy Types: April 2011 Archives

April 2011 Archives

April 29, 2011

I Can't Eat You, Don't You See?

I don't care--for animated gifs, but this gifbin treasure is hard to pass up....
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Creationary Is An Awesome Word

At the moment, Creationary is the name of a game, pitched as Pictionary With Legos. But it seems like it has the potential to be so much more. When the thrill of building the "unique buildable LEGO dice" wears...
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ducduc Announces A Very Exclusive Crib Recall

The CPSC and Ducduc have announced what may be the most exclusive crib recall ever, even more exclusive than the Netto Collection Recall of 2007. Five crib models [AJ, Austin, Parker, Cabana, and my favorite, Campaign, above] have been...
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Shoot Or Get Off The Pot, Jardin d'Enfant, 1935, Brassai

Don't know why, but I love this photo like no other photo of a French kid on a tiny toilet I've ever seen. This is another print from the Reader's Digest collection of famous photographers' pictures of children, which...
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April 28, 2011

The Comforter

I have no doubt my wife knew whose teaching job it was all along, but for a while there I was like, "At some point the kid's gotta learn to make her own bed. Don't her paren--oh, right." But then...
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Anthroposophical Kids Furniture, Also Coniferous

It really is the little differences. The Vienna auction house Dorotheum is selling this c.1930 Erwin Behr kids furniture made from "oiled coniferous wood" as an "anthroposophical child's chair and table," because similar styles were knocked together in the...
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April 27, 2011

DTQ: A Rearfacing Convertible Infant Carrier?

DT reader David wonders if we've really entered the 3-car seat era:Our old Graco Snugride seems to be at the end of its lifespan, while our K2 is but 7 months old. It's possible Graco might fix it, but it...
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April 26, 2011

Well, IS There A 40MPG Car For Dads?

It doesn't sound like it'll take the edge off of summer driving, but DadTherapy car guru David Thomas says definitely/maybe/soon. Is there a 40mpg car for dads? [dadtherapy.com]...
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Hey Go The Fk To Sleep Guy, Publish Your Fking Book Already!

I can't wait for Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes' new children's parents' book, Go the F**k to Sleep to come out. Seriously. No, seriously. October 11th?? I'm sure it's funny as all f**k and whatnot, but I'm serious. Get...
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April 25, 2011

DT Mommy Mailbag: Mommyjuice Edition

Oh, I've had this one decanting in my browser tabs for a special occasion, like DT's trademarked [uh] examination of Mommy Marketing Madness, the DT Mommy Mailbag. A winery in San Francisco has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against a...
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Alfabeto Inhabitable By Pedro Friedberg

You know, it's the little differences. Like how everywhere else online that mentions this large, 1979 print by Mexican surrealist Pablo Friedberg calls it Alfabeto Inhabitable, not Halfabeto And how I guess I forgot that the Spanish alphabet doesn't...
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This Is Serious. The Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 Wagon Is For Sale.

The only station wagon ever made from the "greatest sedan in the world" is for sale. The Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 is the last of the handbuilt Mercedes. And the 300 SEL 6.3 station wagon made to order for...
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April 24, 2011

DT Friday Freakout

I love it when a Freakout comes together. Parent/gadfly/media savant Tom Scocca flags Newsweek's "sneaky selection" of an excerpt from Priscilla Gilman's new memoir which turns the story of one mother's grappling with her son's complex and rare developmental disorder...
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You've Come A Little Way, Baby Daddy

Some interesting work-life links from the professional world this week. First up, an invigorating discussion from the VC/startup world, which used to be a total boys' club. Founder Jessica Jackley took to Business Insider to reply to one of her...
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April 22, 2011

Portrait Of Cora, AKA Bruno Bischofberger's Daughter By George Condo

And here we have another portrait of Bruno Bischofberger's daughter by one of the artists he works with, a large 1989 painting, Portrait of Cora, by George Condo. It sold last year in Paris for EUR 46,000. I don't...
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Bruno Bischofberger's Daughter By Robert Mapplethorpe

You may remember Bruno Bischofberger's daughter Cora from such blog posts as Paintings For Children by Andy Warhol, 128 adorable little works hung at preschooler-height in Bischofberger's Zurich gallery in 1983. Well, now you may own this photograph of...
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April 21, 2011

Bunky Beds: Fatpack Polyurethane Bunk Beds By Marc Newson For Magis

Wow, awesome chunky bunk beds, Marc Newson! Do they come in green? HAHA, trick question! Bunk beds made from giant, single pieces of rotationally spun polyurethane that will ship across the world in a box the size of an...
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Leggero Ventolino: Eine Kleine Wooden Bike Trailer

Leggero was the first European bike kid trailer like 20 years ago, and then something happened, press releases don't say what, just that "Now, the pioneer is back - with the Leggero Vento," which is manufactured in Switzerland, and...
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April 20, 2011

Crayola Colored Bubbles Are Disaster In A Bottle.

Andy Baio recently bought a house, which means he won't lose his deposit over of the insane, paint-splattered mess his kid's Crayola Colored Bubbles made all over their brand new deck. Crayola Colored Bubbles Wand Set, $12.99 plus several...
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The RL Gang Of The Shopocalpyse

You know, I see a dadtweeter there with like 25,000 followers, and I'm like, geez, even if I were doing it, I'd apparently be doing it wrong? But then I think, maybe not? Because holy crap, the way his profile...
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April 19, 2011

Life Imitates The Onion Replaced By Life Imitates Wonkette

Basically, I don't have anything to add to Wonkette's coverage except the word Texas:The great thing about writing over-the-top joke exaggerations about America is that often they come true! For example, just this morning we were sarcastically criticizing Jan Brewer...
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Wow, Porsche 924 Cargo Shooting Brake

Unbelievable, but true: it's a fantastic Porsche 924. In fact, that it's a 924 and not a 944 is the single most perplexing thing about this beautiful shooting brake conversion done by DP Motorsports. Apparently, between 1988 and 2003,...
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April 18, 2011

Think Of The Family Of Children

Bwahahaahathisissoawesome. It's not mentioned on Old Chum's flickr page, so I asked. [Old Chum is actually the flickr stream of Vancouver's own heritage central, Old Faithful Shop.] And so we learn that this photo is from The Family of...
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DT Mommy Mailbag: FAME!

Subject: "Are Viral Videos the Wrong Way to Fame for Kids?" Why yes, yes they are, says the child winner of Star Search 1989-turned-child fame coach whose "new CD's give kids a national platform to showcase their talent," and which...
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Boy In The Plastic Bubble Not A Toy

As winter turns to spring, and Americans start venturing out of doors and out of their SUVs again, the CPSC has found it necessary to warn parents not to seal their children in plastic and throw them in the water...
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April 17, 2011

The Quest, Papercraft Station Wagon By Ken Ragsdale

My dad, no doubt amused to see me now praising the exact cars I hated and cringed in as a kid, sent photos of The Quest, artist Ken Ragsdale's half-scale papercraft sculpture of an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and Airstream,...
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April 15, 2011

Is This The Oldest Gender Reveal Cake Party On YouTube?

OK, let's face it, finding out about such a thing as gender reveal cakes at this late date really calls my credibility as a dadblogger into question. So in the interest of making up for lost time, I am going...
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If You Give A Baker An Ultrasound

"Little girl socks or blue building blocks?" The pink ruffle hegemony, 600,000 aborted girls/year in India, cake-based gender reveal parties... Oh, ultrasound, is there any prenatal cultural disaster you're not responsible for? Seriously, people. Gender cake parties. Where you...
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April 14, 2011

Can A 3-D Movie Adaptation Starring Mike Myers Be Far Behind?

"Two long time children's book favorites completely modernized" I looked into it, and there's really nothing at stake in this particular case. But the deep, unaware wrongness of the subject line of this morning's publicist email still made me sad...
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Another Working Man And His Adorable Twins, By Seydou Keita

I saw this Seydou Keita print in the Phillips de Pury auction last week, and thought, I really oughta post that. And then I remembered I had. 9 Apr 2011, LOT 160 SEYDOU KEÏTA A working man and his...
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The Selfish Giant, Illustrated By Herbert Danska

Oscar Wilde had two young sons and was adding a parenting focus to the magazine he edited, The Woman's World, when he published his childrens story collection, The Happy Prince. As a kid, I did not realize that was...
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April 13, 2011

When Did Boys Stop Wearing Pink?

Wow, it feels like I've been waiting my whole parental life for historian Jo B. Paoletti's book, Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls From the Boys in America; I hope it doesn't drive me crazy with subjectivity and suck....
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Grace Jones' Constructivist Maternity Dress By Antonio Lopez

Holy guacamole, I didn't even know Grace Jones was pregnant. But sure enough, she and her over-the-top stylist boyfriend Jean-Paul Goude had a baby boy in December 1979. The couple told Jet Magazine [damn, but I love the Internet],...
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Kidzania Is Club Libby Lu For Cube Drones

This is an extraordinarily depressing story. It makes me yearn for the days of Disney Princess dressups. But at the heart of the concept and the business of KidZania is corporate consumerism, re-staged for children whose parents pay for them...
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Today In Kids And Food News

Maybe this should be a Wednesday WTF? I don't know, but I seem to have accumulated a lot of WTF-grade stories about food in my browser tabs: I am still trying to figure out what actually happened in the Detroit...
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April 12, 2011

Buy This You Will: House At Chew Corner Now In Print

When we last checked in with "relentlessly cheerful" artist/dad James Hance, he was selling some prints for Wookie The Chew, his flat-out awesome Star Wars X Winnie The Pooh project, and I believe he was previewing a book at...
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Phrases I Never Thought I'd Hear

I'm sure there are others, but I just added "I need help wiping my butt" to the list of things that my pre-dad self never imagined he would hear. Ever....
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Easter A Season Of Terror For Photo Prop Bunnies

As the cherry blossoms and green shoots of the tulips remind us of the miracle of renewal that is Spring, let's take a moment to realize that for some of the less free among us, Easter is really a...
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Brought To You By The Letters O And G: Roosevelt Franklin

Funky Frolic's excellent Sesame Beat playlist contains some groovy classics from the 'Street itself, with a few covers and remixes thrown in for flava. And once again, it's probably only news to me, but hey-ho, Roosevelt Franklin had an...
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April 11, 2011

It's The Little Differences

So here's one thing I did not know before going on a Disney Cruise: the dolls are different for Europe. In the store on the boat--which, rather incredibly, felt like it was hardly open, mostly because they kept it...
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Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion

Oh, brother, this is probably not the way to start out the week. via ridiculous pictures of celine dion via sullivan] Good grief, "In collaborating on Miracle, Celine Dion and her partner in baby love Anne Geddes carefully sidestepped...
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April 8, 2011

Ganja Man From Another Planet

Good grief. How many times has Marijuana Man been invented, in all the years of weekends, in millions of dorm rooms and on millions of kind of ratty sofas, in millions of bedrooms after the kids are finally asleep,...
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Where Did Jar Jar Touch You?

Overheard from the 3yo next to us at the library, who's pointing to some book: "Is that Queen Amidala?" His mother: "Yes." What are you supposed to do when you find out a parent's let a kid watch Episodes I-III?...
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Happy To Find Happy To Be Nappy And Other bell hooks Books

So what else is in the beautiful TV mosaic of HBO Family's children's programming schedule? Because basically, it looks like an idyllic, multi-cultural paradise. It's Zion from The Matrix minus all the Matrix part. And the role of The...
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Gucci Street View Baby

Judging by the Chinese characters for "report a problem," I'm going to guess that this Gucci store is in Taiwan, and that somebody eventually reported the problem. via Jon Rafman's 9 Eyes tumblr [9-eyes.com]...
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April 7, 2011

Robert Guillaume's Happily Ever After Fairy Tales On HBO Are Still A Real Thing.

OK, this has to be quick, because I've got preschool pickup in a couple of minutes: So Kottke points to this UK Independent roundup of The 50 Books Every Child Should Read. Which I click through, even though it's for...
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April 6, 2011

Vincent Kid Shoes Toddling Out Of Business Sale

The American kids' shoescape is about to get much less stripey. Vincent Shoes, one of Sweden's most fashion-forward kid shoe companies, is pulling out of the US market, citing the ongoing recession and the closure of a significant number...
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Greentime For Stokke At Magic Beans

If you've been holding off on getting a Stokke Xplory because you thought the green fabric was just a little too dark, well, spring has sprung, my stroller-shopping friend. Stokke is launching the Xplory in light green, and it's...
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April 5, 2011

We Want Lego Rooms, Where's Our Lego Rooms?

So you read that T Magazine story about Dinder House, that 40-room Georgian manor in BF Somerset or wherever England, and you get to the end, and what is the one thing you want to see?:At Crawford's suggestion, they...
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Needs More Adorable

Like the cherry blossoms appearing in Spring, the piercing cry of the design-savvy new parent brings hope to those who have lived through another winter in this ruffle-encrusted wasteland of kids design. At Design Observer, Alexandra Lange boldly quotes Adolf...
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April 4, 2011

Ruler-Wielding Scientists: Taint Too Far From Phthalate Exposure To Low Sperm Count

In news that brings a sigh of relief from the Iritable Bowel Syndrome folks, who are all too happy to relinquish their Unhelpfully Euphemistic Acronym Award, a group of researchers at the University of Rochester have announced the results of...
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Don't Bring A Tennis Racket To A Baby Crying Fight

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April 3, 2011

No Preschool Child Left Behind

UC Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik has a great article on Slate about how--well, it's probably about how preschool education is going to hell in a handbasket because of misunderstandings about how kids learn and about what toddlers should be learning...
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Strollers And The City

Tom Scocca's NY Times op-ed/true confession of his kid's strollercentric city life is pretty great. It made me think of two things, though. OK, three: 1) Duh. That just means he's right. 2) When the kid was a few weeks...
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And Then There Was One! Piet Zwart Montessori Chair

Rarity is not something you think of when it comes to Piet Zwart's designs. His modular kitchens have been in production for like 75 years. He designed both the post office AND the telephone company in the Netherlands. And...
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April 1, 2011

Playmobil Apple Store At ThinkGeek

The best ThinkGeek April Fool's Day products are the ones that you know are fake, but that you actually want to see anyway. With the careful attention to detail--the Woz at the front of the line expansion pack, the...
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The Gospel According To This In-N-Out Onesie

So let it be written on Daddy Types, so let it be done. Nelson, if you don't get royalties in this life, great will be your reward in heaven. Dear Lord, please let this not be an April Fool's...
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A Dadblogger Walks Into A Bar

And this is the point at which dadblogging pitched itself a giveaway, retweeted its kiss-ass review to itself, and then commented on itself a hundred times before disappearing into the ether. Good times. Mommy and Daddy Blogger Jokes [clarkkentslunchbox]...
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Porko Von Popbutton Is A Real Book.

So apparently in 1968 Sports Illustrated actually commissioned William Pene du Bois to write and illustrate a children's story called Beat The Queen, which was later published as a standalone book as Porko von Popbutton. Porko's the nickname of...
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