Daddy Types: September 2012 Archives

September 2012 Archives

September 29, 2012

Did You Leave Your UppaBaby At The Zoo?

Because it was still there at 8 o'clock. I'm trying to figure out the scenario that could explain how an $700 stroller gets left on the street by the National Zoo, for hours, into the night, unattended and unlocked....
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September 27, 2012

Wake The F**k Up

Considering the Obama administration's disastrous handling of medical marijuana and decriminalization, and that before he did the drawings for the insta-classic, illustrator Richard Cortes was also the creator of It's Just A Plant, I don't know if he and...
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September 26, 2012

Porsche Panamera Sport Tourismo Wagon Concept: There Is No Substitute.

Porsche laissent tomber le mic. Porsche Panamera Wagon 'leaked' renderings [autoblog] and at Jalopnik [jalopnik] And actual photos from the Paris Auto Show: "This Panamera wagon probably isn't just a concept." [caranddriver.com, all via everyone who's seen the car,...
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That Is A Button Well-Pushed, Free Range Kids Lady

Ancient Playground, Central Park, by Richard Dattner You remember Lenore Skenazy; she wrote that book, Free Range Kids, the one you kind of guilt yourself for not reading every time you drive your kid to a foam-lined playdate. Well,...
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September 25, 2012

Here Is A Mercedes Benz B-Class In The US.

Here are some of the things I wish for: An equitable, lasting peace in the Middle East. A spirited yet civil and ultimately uniting election for the United States. That the world will wake up to the dire environmental situation...
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September 24, 2012

Toddlers Toddle, Sometimes Fall, While Sippy Cups, Bottles, Pacifiers

How long does med school take? 14 years? And because you accumulated a million dollars in student loans, and Obamacare's already cutting into your fat margins, you find yourself panic trolling for Yahoo, slapping ridiculous SEO headlines on content farm-level...
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All Together Now: The Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake Is A Station Wagon

Didn't get invited to the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake junket? Don't worry, an intrepid platoon of UK car journos have provided a wide range of near-simultaneous first drive reports. The insta-verdict on the £53-84,000 luxury station wagon: "Unsurprisingly, it...
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September 21, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: BPA Again Edition

Just in time for what looks to be a gorgeous weekend here on the East Coast, the Daddy Types Friday Freakout: a week's worth of wtf headlines from the worlds of health, politics, education and parenting, all rolled up into...
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The Little Boy With The Dragon Tattoo

Illustrator to the stars PJ McQuade drew this awesome marker tattoo on his nephew's arm before the kid's first day of kindergarten. I won't spoil the surprise by telling you how it turned out. The Little Boy With The...
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Philippe Starck X Target Pop-up Playhouse

Now that's kind of interesting. It's five pieces of the springy, pop-up playhouse toys from Philippe Starck's short-lived, pop-up collection of baby gear for Target in 2002, all new in box. With three tunnels, and two tents, you could...
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September 20, 2012

9yo Japanese Rockers Can't Get No Satisfaction BECAUSE THEY'RE NINE HELLO

Here is a Ryunosuke Bando, fronted by Osaka 3rd grader Yamagishi Ryunosuke, tearing it up on some random Korean variety show. I kept watching to see if they're just cold faking it like a mini Milli Vanilli, or to...
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September 19, 2012

Help TheDaddyYoDude And His Family Fight Cancer

Even if you're young, active, and healthy, testicular cancer can come into your life like a swift kick in the nuts. At-home dad and dadblogger John Taylor of TheDaddyYoDude is fighting testicular cancer while raising two toddlers, while not having...
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Whoa Who Wha? Vitali Playforms Community Helpers

Antonio Vitali Community Helpers? I've never even seen Community Helpers. I thought that Vitali's awesome, biomorphic, carved wood Creative Playthings family was entirely self-sufficient. But no, they had help from, respectively: a Miss Clavell-lookin' nun, a guy carrying a...
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September 18, 2012

Full Spectrum Yo Gabba Gabba Vans

Because of this early post about custom-painted Yo Gabba Gabba Vans, DT gets a lot of lost YGG sneaker traffic. It's taken me four years, but I'm finally getting around to fixing that Googlish dead end. At the Vans...
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Tractor Seats

In the literally several Google searches I've carried out, I can say with confidence that this is the finest 1948 Worthington Chief Model G tractor mower I have ever seen. And the craftsmanship of that custom booster seat side...
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September 17, 2012

Mitt Romney & The Onesies Percent

So there's the WTF secret video of the private, $50,000/plate fundraiser where Mitt Romney explains how 47% of Americans are income tax-shirking, government-dependent moochers who, well, there's nothing to be done about them, so "my job is is not to...
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September 15, 2012

Bob Staake's Golden Book Of Inappropriate Children's Books

You might remember illustrator and children's book author Bob Staake from his version of the freaky German classic, Der Struwelpeter. Or from about a million books and graphics he did all over the place, holy smokes, though hm, some...
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September 14, 2012

Yes, Virginia, There Is A 'Mercedes 500TE'

And since it's apparently Complicated Cuts & Modifications Motivated By Religious Passion Week here at DT... The re-emergence of that AMG Like-A-Hammer Wagon started me looking into its fate, and why AMG didn't end up making 50 of those things/year...
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September 13, 2012

No Blood For Mohel

Every time this whole, metzitzah b'peh, mohel sucks the blood off the freshly circumcised penis thing turns up in the news, I thank G-d that being a New Yorker only makes you Jewish on the inside. And speaking of the...
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September 12, 2012

Like-A-Hammer: 1988 Mercedes AMG Mallet 300TE 6.0 Wagon

Let me just say, from personal experience, that if you have a collectible 1980s Mercedes and you haven't accumulated at least $40,000 worth of receipts for it by now, you are doing it wrong. Because those receipts will come, and...
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Silver Cross Surf's Up! Unidentified Local Mum Wipes Out On Sidewalk

My favorite part of this paparazzi photo of Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen's Silver Cross Surf pram and car seat getting stuck in a gap on the sidewalk and pitching him to the ground is his little feet. So cute....
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Pinteresting

Chris Verene Family pinterest.com/pin/2422796549... viaEven my Aunt thinks that it is cool to be on @pinterestBTW: Lexus is 5 years old now.— Chris Verene (@ChrisVerene) September 12, 2012...
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Aluminum Is Forever. Also Recyclable

From a pitch for a company that will print your keepsake digital photos on aluminum: The brilliant new way to print and display photos, infuses an image right into the body of a lightweight, but solid sheet of recyclable aluminum....
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September 11, 2012

How Can I Express The Awfulness Of Network TV In A Blog Post Title?

Every word in Alessandra Stanley's review of "Guys With Kids" and "The New Normal" is bullshit, including "mom" and "dad." Man Enough (or Not) to Assume Mom Duties [nyt]...
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September 10, 2012

Caddy Shock & BulliShit

So yet again, VW is dangling the rumor that they might bring a Microbus to the US? Based on the 5-passenger Bulli concept they trotted out two years ago? Whatever. I've got a tag for that. And I'll be...
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Inglourious 'Breastapo' Prefers The Milk.

Oh, man, if these Sunday Star-Times reports are any indication, the health care system in New Zealand has been seized by power-mad lactivists loyal to the WHO, who have turned the little island nation into the breastfeeding version of...
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Avenues: The World School Is Open For Business

Sometimes I just look at the Corian counter in the kids' preschool kitchen, and I wonder how it all went so wrong so fast, and whether they'll ever forgive me for ruining their lives so completely and so young? How...
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How Can Paul Ryan Be Vice President AND A Dad?

So a couple of ball-bustin' reporters from the Chicago Sun-Times cornered a local politician at the Democratic National Convention and started firin' off the tough questions:[Illinois Attorney General Lisa] Madigan and her husband, Pat Byrnes, have two young children, ages...
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Wee Built This: Weerol Evolving Plaything

Santa Cruz dad Derek Perkins began working on the Weerol a year ago, when his kid was two. The design objectives: a goodlooking, high-quality toy that adapts to a kid's play patterns as he gets older, thus eliminating a...
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September 8, 2012

Et In Arcadia Eh-Oh

Adam Roberts makes the case that the anti-utopian warnings of the Teletubbies' infantilized cyborg pseudo-natural culture surpasses both H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley in their intensity:But neither writer explored the logic of their own premises as far as do the...
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Daddy's Special Brownies

And all this time I thought it was just a plant. San Francisco art dealer and father of three Mark Wolfe has an awesome and hilarious op-ed in the NY Times about how his medical marijuana prescription has transformed his...
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September 7, 2012

And The Company That'll Bring It To You: AT&T

JJ Daddy-O had flagged the original story a few days ago of a junior high school in Texas putting RFID chips in student ID's to help bring in more headcount-based state funding. But Wired gets the award for the most...
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Baby Hjölster Aims To Redefine Your Sense Of Personal Space

Andy posted the Baby Hjolster to HowToBeADad almost six months ago. I assume the Kickstarter campaign will be announced as soon as they resolve the prototype's door jamb and urinal glitches. BULLSHIT KNOCKOFF UPDATE: Wow, so NBC stripped the...
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September 6, 2012

There Is No I In ABC

But otherwise, these lower case, wooden letters from Creative Playthings are pretty sweet. Also choke hazardy. Vintage CREATIVE PLAYTHINGS Wood Set of Toy Letters+BOX, currently $14 + 11 s/h, auction ends Sept 11 [ebay]...
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September 4, 2012

My Son, My Son, What Have I Done?

From Grand Island, Nebraska's Channel 10 11 News [1,011? 10&11? Do they have so many channels in Nebraska, or so few that they're combining them now?] comes a story of a 3yo boy who uses sign language and the...
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September 3, 2012

George Nakashima And His Family Moved To New Hope In 1943.

You'd think that as a parent, I'd be less surprised by now at the constant discoveries of the extent of my own ignorance. And yet. Last night, while surfing through the archive of the War Relocation Authority's nearly 7,000 photos...
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September 2, 2012

Bid/Buy/Build: The Creative Playthings Slot-Together Dollhouse Is By Roger Limbrick.

It's funny, all this time it's been an awesome icon of 60s American modernist kids design, and I'd never actually wondered who made the Creative Playthings slot-together, openside doll house. The answer, which Andy knew all along: British designer...
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