Daddy Types: December 2011 Archives

December 2011 Archives

December 31, 2011

No, There Is Another.

Alright, the last post of the years keep on coming. While I'm glad the Cadillac CTS-V wagon made NY Times auto critic James G Cobb's top ten list for 2011, it's this line from the slideshow that led me to...
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The Dudela Abides

Oh wait, no, maybe this parody posting for a "dudela" on UrbanBaby should be the craziest, last post of the year:A DUDELA? IS THAT LIKE A DOULA? Yes, think of a dudela as being a doula for the mother's partner....
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December 30, 2011

Fetal Cube, By Telstar Logistics

Tomorrow's another travel day, and in case this is the last DT post of the year, we've gotta end big: I've been trying to test or rent one of them Nissan Cubes for a while now. Anyone out there love...
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The Children's Books Of Tom Seidmann-Freud

Tom Seidmann-Freud was Sigmund Freud's niece. She was born Martha-Gertrud Freud, and at 15 she changed her name to Tom and started wearing men's clothes. Which, sure, George Sand did it, too, and big deal. It was more inexplicable...
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December 29, 2011

BREAKING: Other Half The Population Also Buys Groceries

Maybe it's the MBA geek in me, but man, I love it when industry consultants talk shop, like in this Chicago Tribune article about supermarkets and consumer product conglomerates finally noticing that men do half the grocery shopping:"The mindset has...
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Riley Is A Toy Marketing Superhero

Whn I first saw this floating around, I thought it might be one of those awkwardly obvious stunt videos where people feed their kids their own activist lines. But even if her dad got her spun up a little...
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December 27, 2011

Evelyn's Mom

Thanks to Evelyn, who just sent me this picture of her mom. I looked her up on Facebook, and matched the kitchen, and mom seems to be doing great, though with grey hair now, so, you know, another holiday...
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Homemade Toy Patch Panel By Erik Utter

Video engineering consultant Erik Utter's 2-yo son turns out to love cables, plugs, and control panels as much as he does. So for Christmas, Utter whipped up this sweet toy patch panel on AutoCAD, had it cut and engraved...
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DT Ski Trip Protip

Don't leave your sippy cup on the radiant heat floor overnight....
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December 24, 2011

Star Trek Coloring Book

The crazy thing about this Star Trek color and activity book--besides the fact that I once bought it as blog fodder. And then didn't use it. And then lost it. And just found it while clearing out some books...
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December 23, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Bears & Bees Edition

It's the DT Friday Freakout! A roundup of headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting to ruin your holiday weekend: The CPSC announced a recall of 7,260 Bugaboo Bees, all manufactured in 2011, to replace front swivel...
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Antonio Vitali Rocking Snail Too Slow For Christmas

Assuming you didn't already blow your Christmas wad on the ersatz nativity set last fall, you should now be ready to pounce on this: an early hand-carved rocking snail from Antonio Vitali's Swiss toys days. The shaped details are...
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the Mountain Goats Chews Legos, Spits Them Out

Indie songster John Darnielle is so pissed at Lego's new gender-coded blocks & dolls strategy, he almost canceled his subscription to Business Week. @mountain_goats via @gabrielroth [twitter] previously: Lego is for girls now. again. whatever....
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December 22, 2011

And They Shall Call His Name Emanuel. And His Jesus.

Let's put this story from the northern Brazilian state of Para into chronological order:Claudioner Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital in Anajas where she gave birth, told Brazil's O Povo newspaper that the mother came in because she was...
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December 21, 2011

Lego Occupy Wall Street Riot Brigade Set

"Gear up! Roll out! And put an end to dissent!" Try sayin' Lego's evil now, hippie! Occupy Wall Street Riot Brigade Lego Set [slate v via laughingsquid]...
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December 20, 2011

There's A Breastfeeding Flashmob in Brighton Tonight

After a mum was "victimised" by being told that her breastfeeding made some other people in the vegetarian restaurant feel "unpleasant," a "flashmob" of 40 or so lactivists swooped into wherever Brighton and just breastfed the hell out of the...
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CHANUKAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!

Kids. You never know how they'll turn out. The kid's first favorite Chanukah story was the kids re-enacting Judah Macabee in Dorling Kindersley's schlubby classic, My First Hanukah Boardbook. K2, meanwhile, just screams like a latke on the loose....
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Childhood In Rome: It's The Little Differences

This has been trapped on my iPad for months now. In the Times Literary Supplement in October, Oxford historian Peter Thonemann wrote an excellent review of two scholarly books on the Roman concept and experience of childhoodThere is remarkably little...
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December 19, 2011

There Are Underground Preschools On The East Coast, Too

I knew I should wait to post about this. There are now over 350 comments on Soni Sangha's NYT story of the stresses of operating an underground co-op nursery school in Brooklyn, so I'm pretty sure that everything that can...
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It's My Isamu Noguchi Zenith Radio Nurse In A Box!

Congratulations to Mondo Blogo, scored this fine example of the first electronic baby monitor, the Radio Nurse, designed for Zenith by Isamu Noguchi. I've seen several with the boring-looking transmitter end, but never one with the original box. I...
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December 16, 2011

S.U.V. The Extra-Terrestrial

Alright, how was I supposed to know E.T. was so sad? When the kid got the call at 7:00 to stand in for some missing creature in The Nutcracker, the wife hustled her over to the theater, and left...
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Lego Is For Girls. Now. Again. Whatever.

Our girls already play the hell out of their Legos, so on a purely personal level, I don't really feel too worked up about the new Lego Friends thing that supplants traditional minifigs with girlier "ladyfig" dolls and sets...
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December 15, 2011

Wait, Have We Really Reached Peak Ava?

No, Avas did not cause the housing bubble. As this graph clearly shows, people with large home equity lines of credit were just three times as likely to nae their kid Ava. Way to look through the wrong end...
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I Am The World's Severest Bed Stylist

First off, let me say we have a good friend who is a bed stylist--or a soft stylist, in the inustry lingo--and I wish her a rich and rewarding career for as long as she wants it. That said,...
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December 14, 2011

Stokke Xplory-Lookin' Doll Stroller

Famosa may not make the Baby Pirulin Pipi anymore, but you know what it does make? A toy stroller that looks an awful lot like a Stokke Xplory. For twins. That folds. Maravilloso! Silla Plegable Nenuco, 38,95 € [juguetespedrosa.es]...
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Wee Irish Spring

Judging by his big, swingin', interactive, uncircumcised penis, I would say that the Baby Pirulin Pipi doll in this commercial grew up to be the Baby Wee-Wee toddler doll in the commercial Thingamababy wrote about in 2007. At the...
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Goth [?] Disney Princesses

Is this what the kids are calling goth these days? The neck tattoos and pierced septums and stuff? Because back when I was a boy, Goth was just guyliner and trench coats. Like The Matrix. Anyway, I'm pretty sure...
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Golden Child: Kid Design Round-up From Skinner Auctions

There sure are some fascinating kid-related things coming up this weekend in the 20th century design sale at Boston-based auction house Skinner. But first, the stuff you might actually want to bid on: RESULTS UPDATE: Hah, or not. None of...
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Have The Crawligator Market Found A Floor?

You'd think that if the Crawligator that showed up on eBay last week had 17 bids and sold for $202, the one on eBay right now might at least have a single $49 bid. But then, the previous Crawligator...
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It's The Circle Of Life

DisneyDads.com exists. It is as not Babble Dads as can be. previously: Disney Moms...
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December 13, 2011

WTF Angry Birds Playground?

I'm sorry, but unless I'm at a theme park where I pay cash money for my kid to be brainwashed by branded entertainment properties and character-licensed merchandise, I don't want it. Seriously, what school board or city council would...
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December 12, 2011

Acht Lustige Eichhörnchen By Kolo Moser

50 Watts has a post about a great-looking, handmade children's book by the Viennese Secession artist Kolo Moser. You should definitely check out the whole thing. Me, I can't get past the eight, funny--and awesome--squirrels. Obviously, these two are...
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Cards And Trucks And Things That Go: Zoom Zoo Alphabet Cards By Mike Yamada

Seriously, the awesome extracurricular activities of Los Angeles animators could fill a blog all by themselves. They probably do, and several comics- and manga-related conventions to boot. When he's not at his studio dayjob, Mike Yamada created Zoom Zoo,...
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You Have Just Entered The Xyvyn Xone

So I'm reading along in SFTU Parents, thinking, maybe I should really get on Facebook after all. I mean, it's apparently where all the WTFBabyName stories are happening the days. And then there's the 277 and counting comments? In the...
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December 11, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Nutcracker Edition

Whew, we've had family and Nutcracker up to ^^^ here this weekend, so here, just in time to ruin your Sunday night, are some freakout stories from the worlds of science, health, parenting, politics: But first, an open letter to...
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December 10, 2011

This Is The Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats's Peter

The Jewish Museum exhibition commemorating the work of Ezra Jack Keats is open, trying to get a jump on the 50th anniversary of The Snowy Day. Which is next year. The NY Times article ends with a very touching quote...
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December 9, 2011

Things I'm Not Trying To Win On eBay: Mint-In-Box Creative Playthings Blocks

I've been thinking I'm going to bid on these beautiful-looking, new-in-box, c.1975 Creative Playthings blocks for the kids' Christmas present. And though we're mostly out of the choke hazard phase, I decided they're a little small for us. [The...
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Oh My Hellzyeah: The Man O' The Hizzy Panamera Review

Woo-hoo, if there was any lingering doubt about whether daddyblogs could ever match mommyblogs for sheer, awesome PR boondogglery, Jason Avant has left it in the dust. Actually, he obliterated it under the screaming wheels of the Porsche Panamera Turbo...
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Oh My Heckflosse! 1968 Mercedes 200D Wagon

Oh, no, this is it, I can feel it! It's the Big One! It was just yesterday, when I was taking our 1985 Mercedes coupe to the shop again for some minor-but-expensive repair, that I was contemplating its fate: should...
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Guess What I Think About Marcel The Shell With Shoes On?

It's adorable! How am I doing YouTube so wrong that I didn't find out about this until a year and 18 million views into its existence? Marcel was the offhand, one-week creation of Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp. Guess...
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December 8, 2011

This Is Your Brain On Girls. Any Questions?

Oh, you dare, Fast Company, you dare. That's why you're the out-of-the-box thinkpiece trend story content generator!Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls. Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem--one that advertising could solve?Unfortunately, the ad...
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A Brief Gingerbread Occupy Roundup

Unfortunately, the Gingerbread Occupy camps I've found so far have all the ramshackle visual blandness of the originals, without the political electricity. In other words, they need some gingerbread geodesic domes! Two lonely white chocolate Occupy tents at a gingerbread...
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Gingerbread Geodesic Dome Kit By Scout Regalia

Look, I'm as stoked as the next guy for a gingerbread geodesic dome. And while I was gonna grouse about how Scout Regalia's $25 dome kit is pretty much just two pieces of cardboard, and how, really, the gingerbread...
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December 7, 2011

Philippe Starck For Target Items Nobody Won On eBay

Speaking of vintage Philippe Starck-designed baby gear, I guess the only way I missed this was by never searching for it on eBay. An auction ended just last night for a nearly complete set of Starck For Target, a...
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Philippe Starck's Face: Mustache Ride-On Toy

Holy Moses, until I was poking around the archive of an Amsterdam design auction, I had forgotten how utterly freaky, bizarre, and wrong Philippe Starck's ride-on/walking toy The Face is. And to think that five years ago, we gave...
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December 6, 2011

The Next Year Of The Dadblog Is Coming! DadcentricXSXSWi!

Someone or other has been proclaiming the year of the dadblog every year since, well, it seems like forever. But now maybe 2012 will actually be it. Jason Avant of Dadcentric and Craig Heimbuch of Man of the House just...
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Where In The World Is The Carmen Sandiego Generation?

Is it too early to see what happened to the overeager, overachieving yuppie children of the 90s, who were raised on Carmen Sandiego? They dorked out, cheated a little, really showed that private school jerk from Manhattan, and went on...
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Dutch Postage Stamps By Blommers / Schumm

You know, just because you can never in a million years imagine it happening in your country's postal system doesn't mean it's a bad idea. And so, Dutch postage stamps featuring portraits of kids by fashion photographers Anuschka Blommers...
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December 5, 2011

OG Walter Papst Kids Table At Mid Mod

I don't know where he finds this stuff, but he sure does. And over and over again, too. Mid Mod Design has a kids table by fiberglass kids' furniture pioneer-turned alien hunter Walter Papst, for just EUR900. A price...
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40 Million Reasons To Get Your Kid An iPhone For Christmas

In reporting on a report that reveals only 3 million of the 43 million of kids aged 10-19 have actually sexted after all, Choire Sicha shows why he is. America's Greatest Kid-Free Parenting Expert:This is why you're supposed to have...
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Cup O' Noodles? Cup O' Scalding Toddler Torture!

We interrupt this unobtainable German minivan caroling special to bring you a special DT Monday Freakout: NPR has blown the lid on a nationwide epidemic of toddler terror: apparently, cups of instant soup are designed so that they can tip...
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December 4, 2011

O Multivan, O Multivan, Du Kannst Mir Sehr Gefallen!

O Multivan, O Multivan Wie ziemlich deine Plätzer! Von fünf Kindern zur Abholzeit, Zu vier Exekutivearbeit! O Multivan, O Multivan Wie ziemlich deine Plätzer! O Multivan, O Multivan Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! Wie oft hat schön zur dein...
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December 3, 2011

Whoa, Crawligator In A Box, Baby!

Someone's Christmas just got 100% crawlier. The Crawligator belly scooter is one of the icons of the Creative Playthings era--an era where keeping the kid from inadvertently scooting down the stairs and cracking his melon open was the parents'...
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December 2, 2011

Pregnant Lesbian Daddy Types

Gotta confess, I don't have the categories and tags to do justice for A.K. Summers' web comic, Pregnant Butch, so let's just say congratulations, it's in a class by itself. Pregnant Butch, by A.K. Summers [act-i-vate.com via I wish...
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And I Thought They Smelled Bad On The Outside

Oh, man, just click on this link right now. RIGHT NOW. [dadcentric] RIGHT NOW! Why are you still here?? CLICK! OK, fine. Click here, too. [fuckyeahlucasfilm]...
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DT Friday Freakout: Lead Juicebox Edition

Here to ruin your weekend, a healthy dose of freakout headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, health, education, and safety: Not to freak you out or anything, just that Consumer's Union really wants something to be done about all...
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December 1, 2011

Happy Meals, Now With LOLZ

Does SF Weekly cover anything besides the Happy Meal Toy Ban? I guess I don't know, but columnist Joe Eskenazi sure does get worked up over it. What a smug crank. Anyway, today's the first day of the San Francisco...
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M-I-C-ya!

via @myersnews...
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A Children's Treasury Of Playground Near Nuclear Power Plant Photos

I can't figure out what's going on in these photographs Eric Vance took. I mean, they're labeled "environmental justice," and they were taken in 2007. For the EPA. During the Bush Administration. So I can only assume they are...
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Awesomely Annoying: Creative Playthings Steel Drum On eBay

This is simultaneously the awesomest thing I've seen on eBay all week and the single worst idea for a kid's gift all year. Unless, of course, your kid lives in a padded, soundproof room, or you totally hate your...
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