Daddy Types: June 2011 Archives

June 2011 Archives

June 30, 2011

Holy Moley, Evel Knievel Shortster MINT IN BOX

Anyone remember back in 2008, when I asked everyone and no one in particular, "How many Evel Knievel tricycles do you think are still out there?" Well, it's taken almost three years, but we finally have an answer: AT LEAST...
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Hyperchouette Bambou Bassinet de Mort

There really are never enough bamboo cribs and bassinets out there. Maybe because until lamination technology progressed it was so hard to make bamboo crib that didn't look like it escaped from a tiki bar, or was left over...
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Inside The Nick Jr Actors' Studio

In which Jon Beavers, who plays Twist, the Gilliganesque wigger wigga wegro1 DJ on Nickelodeon's Fresh Beat Band, discusses his craft with and seeks career advice from Mickey Rourke: 2015 UPDATE: The clip is gone. Try this youku.com link to...
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Bjork Is The New Piano Lessons

Bjork's next album, Biophilia is also going to be a suite of iPad apps that serve as control panels for remixing and altering the songs, for playing musical instruments she created, and for learning and composing music using databases...
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June 29, 2011

Day Tripper Totes By Guy Walker

Oh-ho-ho, these are awesome. In 2010 Brooklyn print foundry Forth Estate published artist Guy Walker's Day Tripper Bags, LL Bean tote bags monogrammed with the initials of one of six recreational drugs so popular with the kids these days....
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OG Meets OC: VW Samba Microbuses Blow Doors Off At Barrett Jackson

A 1963 VW 23-window microbus with a fanatical-sounding, award-winning NOS restoration, sold Saturday at Barrett Jackson's Orange County auction for an eye-popping $217,800. Which came after a 1965 VW 21-window Samba bus with a restoration that sounds entirely proper...
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Whoa, Dare Wright Lonely Doll Photos At Bonhams

How'd I miss these? Did I not scroll all the way down? I was just updating the price results on last week's kids book illustrations roundup [short answer: pretty rough if your name's not Pooh], and there at the bottom,...
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June 28, 2011

Lonely Doll Meets Lost Library RIGHT NOW

OK, I'm freaking out a little bit right now. On June 28, 2006, exactly five years ago today, DT published Marjorie's review of The Lonely Doll as part of the Daddy Types Bizarre Childrens Book Contest. The Lonely Doll...
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Bigger Boat, Smaller Car

Dave Bry went to a beach club on the New Jersey shore last weekend so you don't have to:4) A group of parents are sitting on the beach, drinking beer and talking about dolphins. "There have been more of them...
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It's Funny Until Somebody Actually Tells A Kid To Go The F*ck To Sleep

I guess Nancy Grace is off CNN for the summer, and so the role of asking prosecutors of child murder cases to accuse the creators of Go The F*ck To Sleep of promoting child abuse is being played by Karen...
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June 27, 2011

Sweet Ado Play Table & Chairs

It's one of the perks of being just a few kilometers up the road from the old sanatorium at Apeldoorn: you get probably the highest concentration of vintage Ado toys and furniture in the world. There may be some...
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Design Observer Talks With Renegade Illustrator Tomi Ungerer

Here is a long interview with wacked out but awesome children's book-and-erotica illustrator Tomi Ungerer. A fascinating guy, but my main takeaway is that the name of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is #$)(%ing ridiculous and needs...
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'Not To Mention Fathers'

psychotherapist/author Lori Gottlieb's article in The Atlantic about how your overparenting's gonna send your kid straight into therapy when they grow up is fascinating and compelling reading. Go read it right now if you haven't already. BUT. As insightful as...
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Go The Flickr To Tweet

Barry's tweet sounded so much like a line from Go The F*ck To Sleep, I couldn't resist. The baby octopi are grilling, charred in the gasfire's leap. I'm thinking of plathing my head in the oven, if you don't...
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June 26, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: CDC WTF Measles! Edition

Congratulations, vacctivists, for ruining your kids' weekends by causing them to get the measles! The Centers for Disease Control has issued an official health warning as the number of measles outbreaks in the US has reached its highest level since...
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June 25, 2011

This Vintage Prop Crib Of Death Is Fantastic

What better way to advertise a beautifully crafted, obsolete, and probably unsafe product like quilted crib bumpers, than with an awesome, vintage crib with exactly the kind of deadly-wide gaps that crib bumpers were invented to protect from? It's...
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You Probably Will Want Handy Dad In Like Five Years

Todd Davis has some TV show on the Real Estate Flipping Channel, but his old-school kid projects instruction book Handy Dad looks good anyway. Thing is, though, if you're reading this site on a Saturday night, your kid's probably...
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June 23, 2011

Hey, Men, It's That Time Of Year Again! Buy Some Pampers!

I believe these are called baby steps. We will choose to call them baby steps, and not annual, token, post-Father's Day marketing sops. Because the fine publicity folks at Pampers have "reached out" to me to invite me to blog...
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Alot To Chew On

Sorry, it's been kind of a hectic week offline. But then just when I think I have taken on too many things, I get a press release like this one--Unique children's book tackles issues from rescue animals to domestic violence...
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June 21, 2011

DT Mommy Mailbag: Belly Armor

mishmash screengrab made from bellyarmor.com screengrab made from bellyarmor's pr email Sometimes it's hard to know what to roll my eyes at first:Belly Armor Shields Cell Phone Radiation While Pregnant As a Mommy Blogger, we know how valuable your...
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June 20, 2011

ClubPenguin Dot WTF

I used to work for Disney, and I wish they'd bought my random kid-related, recurring billing startup for $700 million. With those points out of the way, let me say it's hilariously awesome and ridiculous that Club Penguin went down...
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The Playtown Real Estate Market Is Bouncing Back!

Green shoots! Here is a bright spot in the real estate-obsessed economy of Southern California: this week LA Modern is auctioning a vintage Playtown Garage from Creative Playthings, which comes with car, gas pumps, roof hoist, and a bed...
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Mima Kids Strollers di Artisti! Personallizato!

Mima Kobi stroller customized by Milanese architect/designer Antonio Pio Giovanditto, ends Jun. 30 In 2009, the Spanish premium baby start-up Mima won the Innovation award at the huge K+J expo for their Kobi stroller, which converts from carrycot to...
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Spinning Kids

The Flickr Blog has a nice little collection of parents-eye-view photos of spinning kids, including this awesome one by flickr user Elladog. Spin Me! [flickr via dt reader dt]...
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June 18, 2011

'In The End, You're Just Dad'

Gallery Zeno X had shown this little painting, In the end, you're just Dad, by cranky Belgian artist Luc Tuymans earlier this year. But I guess tightly cropped, slightly menacing headshots of dads in YouTube insurance commercials aren't such...
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I Now Live In Fear Of The Vengeful Ghost Of Jean-Paul Sartre

So for Father's Day, the Washington Post's recently rebooted blog, On Parenting, decided to round up some Father's Day memories from some of DC's most inspiring, famous, powerful, and influential sons--and me. And what touching insights do I deliver alongside...
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June 15, 2011

Baby Monitor Stick-On Chips

Some nerds want use the radio waves we're all soaking in to power little, battery-less chips:The creators envision adhesive sensors that send a baby's body temperature to laptops and ads that beam coupons to smartphones over short distances not necessarily...
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In The Cave Of Go The F**k Back To Sleep

Alright, here we are. 305 views and counting. Werner, you know I love you, and the kid and I both loved The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, but I gotta give this round to Samuel L. Jackson. Werner Herzog reads Mansbach...
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Sounds Like It's A Little Late For That

Congratulations and good luck to the procreating Pyper people. [via @johnpyper: "Impending! D'oh!"]...
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June 14, 2011

Wary Meyers Has An Awesome Father's Day Pop-Up Shop

I am really sick of Father's Day pitches, and I plan to not really do anything in the way of Father's Day posts, since, really, every day is Father's Day around here. But I will say that the antidote to...
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Waterproof Sunblock Is A Lie, Says FDA

What does it take for the New York Times to actually call something "false"? The FDA has approved new sunscreen marketing regulations for the first time in 33 years:The rules, which go into effect in a year, will also ban...
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Dadchelor Parties?? Mommyrexia??

You know what I hate? #$)(%ing writers thinking that coining a stupid $)#%(ing cultural buzzword's gonna give them their big break. Get'em an agent. And a tumblr-to-book deal. A cover story. Yes, I know that's how we got Yuppies. And...
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Samuel L. Jackson Reading Go The F**k To Sleep Right Now

Whether you know him best as Mace Windu or Jules Winnfield, or maybe somewhere in between as the guy who reads the Bible and Nelson Mandela's favorite folk tales to you while you jog, Samuel L. Jackson will henceforth...
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June 13, 2011

Werner Herzog Went The F**k To The New York Public Library

I did not attend your SEO webinar. We were at the playground during your summer safety tips momblogger Tweetchat. I do occasionally miss the end of an eBay auction I've been following. A couple of weeks ago I had to...
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C-ya! Ford Bails On US C-Max

Of course they did. With the anticipated US launch date for the 2012 C-Max just months away, Ford has dropped the car like a hot, Euro-style, three-row, people-moving potato. If you're a glutton for punishment, or shopping for a...
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Spectacular Spectacular

Suffice it to say, publicists and I appear to have very different understandings of the meaning of the word, "spectacular." And while it is pretty much true that putting "spectacular" in the subject line will get me to open an...
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This Lovely Blouse Will Protec Your Baby From Cell Phones And/Or Microwave Popcorn

Electromagnetic fields! We're soaking in it! Everyone basically knows that EMF causes birth defects and/or cancer and/or tumors or something, especially the heightened EMF that thoughtless pregnant women with cell phones and electricity and BabyPlus prenatal education systems expose...
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June 12, 2011

Bros Before Pos

I was going to WTFpost about Bronies before heading off for a long weekend, but then I thought, "No, they whole phenomenon only started in January; maybe it'll be completely gone by Monday." And, no. As of 11:17, it...
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June 9, 2011

The Smurfpocalypse Is Nigh

Anyone who's seen the trailer for the new CGI-live action movie knows The Smurfs are about to be ruined beyond all recognition, smurfed up worse than any Unicef firebombing PSA animator could ever imagine. So why not kick'em in their...
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Mr. Mole's Awesome Attic Playroom

The NY Times goes poking around writer Tom McNeal's house, which has a couple of rather awesome playrooms hidden in the eaves. Their kids are tweens now, but I imagine these were pretty popular back in the day. That...
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OMGNOWAY! BERENSTAIN BEARS THE MUSICAL!!!

WHOA, FULL STOP! There is now a Berenstain Bears Live Musical! It opens in just a couple of weeks! At the Manhattan Music And Arts Center beginning June 25th! This is the press release I have been waiting for all...
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Four Interesting Things In Bonham's Illustrations Auction

The big ticket in Bonham's upcoming 20th century illustration auction in New York is undoubtedly the big [16x20] watercolor Maurice Sendak created for a 1990 conference poster for the International Board of Books for Young People, which is IBBY, not...
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June 7, 2011

Now Bruce Conner's Child Can Creep You Out, Too

Renegade San Francisco artist Bruce Conner's gory, creepy 1959-60 sculpture Child has been in my browser tabs so long, I've forgotten which hardened criminal's death sentence he was protesting by making it. I do remember reading about how the...
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Station Wagons You Can't Get Here Because You Are Poor, Vol. VI

Here is a video of some hoonabees racing a Cadillac CTS-V Wagon against a Corvette. GM has a car for mid-life crises at every marriage status. CTS-V Wagon Top Speed Run at El Mirage, Vette vs CTS-V Drag [the...
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June 6, 2011

Caravan On A Quest To Defeat The Odyssey

Driving dad hero Dave Thomas left the family at home for far too long and set sail with his merry bunch of cargonauts in search of the Golden Fleets: the minivan that could defeat the Odyssey in battle. There is...
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Crochet-Bombing

via @lizzieohreally comes the cutest crochet-bombed bicycle you'll see all day. [twitter, yfrog]...
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Read The Fine Print

This "My Daddy's a DILF" t-shirt is just the thing for the mom who would circumcise her son so that he looks more like the guy who impregnated her in the first place, but who ended up having a...
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Circumcision Ban Campaign Not Quite Ready For Its Closeup

So the campaign to enact laws banning circumcision in California without religious exemptions is "gaining momentum," reports the New York Times. At least it was until the Times also asked the folks at the Anti-Defamation League what they thought about...
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June 4, 2011

Introducing The Mumsnet State

When the Tories killed the previous government's plans to build a massive database to monitor anti-social behaviour and adult-child interaction basically from birth, it seemed like the UK was finally stepping back from the Nanny State brink. But it turns...
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June 3, 2011

Alexander Calder Rocking Horse Concept

Big Red Thing is a public archive site created by the art historian Jennifer Geigel Mikulay to collect memories, artifacts, and responses related to La Grande Vitesse, the giant Alexander Calder sculpture that became a civic icon for Grand...
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Chavs Are Tickety-Boo, Daddy Types Tweeted

You know, I try to put out a site that's useful, relevant. Brings new information to light. Maybe has some decent writing, interspersed now and then with an entertaining picture of a baby, a stroller. But I tell you, if...
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June 2, 2011

Test Tube Daddy

Whoa, Science blogger Adam Ruben goes all out on the scientist nerd-dad thing:I don't know how other prospective fathers treat their wives' pregnancies, but I saw it as a science project. It had a protocol, parameters, a timeline, and even...
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June 1, 2011

The BabyBjorn High Chair Trilogy

When it came to launching their new high chair the marketing folks at BabyBjorn knew two things: they wanted the chair's designer, Jakob Wikner, a new dad himself, to be involved, perhaps as a way to enhance the brand's association...
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