From the Department of Things I Might Have Been Somewhat Excited About At One Point, At Least As Blog Fodder, But Now Would Be Happier If It Never Existed: it's an ABC boardbook by Damien Hirst. Of course D...
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September 2013 Archives
September 30, 2013
Damien Hirst ABC Boardbook
September 29, 2013
FrankenDiesel Wha Wha Wha? 1999 Mercedes E300TD On eBay
Oh hi, car that shouldn't exist! So I'm just taking a Sunday evening stroll through the Mercedes station wagons on eBay, as one does, and there's this crazy thing: a 1999 E300 Turbodiesel Wagon. Which was a model that...
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September 27, 2013
Mormon Prune Crate Play Furniture Was A Communist Plot
We're making progress on the vintage Mormon Sunday School Nursery play furniture plans I posted a little while ago. I recently found an earlier edition of the teachers' manual, called Sunday Morning in the Nursery, that dated from 1949,...
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September 26, 2013
I Think You're Gonna Need A Bigger VICKS Logo
Honestly, I think if the Vicks logo had actually been this big I might have noticed it before we bought these things. K2's been fighting the first cold of the school year, the kind of thing that happens when...
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September 25, 2013
Spotted: Slammed Mercedes E320 Wagon
Despite having a tight trip from soccer to ballet in the middle of rush hour, I almost turned around to chase down the slammed W124 Mercedes wagon that turned in front of me in Mclean, Virginia this afternoon. I...
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Those Old-Time Politicians Sure Had Some Names
Granted, they were no Puritans, but as Andy Osterdahl's blog ably proves, turn-of-the-last-century politicians had some unusual names. Flagget H. Trabbic. Galius Zwick. Vendome Tickner. Friend of Frogs. [Oh wait, that's a headline.] The list goes on, a dozen at...
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3rd Gen Mambo Family Baby Swim Collar
After tumbling into the labyrinthian world of Chinese knockoff baby bath gear yesterday, I floated past this remarkable product: the 3rd Generation Mambo Family Transparent Baby Swim Ring Collar. Let's all take a moment to remember the brave families...
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September 24, 2013
Because Their Favorite Word Is 'I'
This just in, here is Texas Senator Ted Cruz conducting a fake Obamacare filibuster of pre-negotiated length and no import, reading Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham to his daughters, via the C-SPAN cameras, from the Senate floor: And in...
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Baby Shower Cap Photo Reviews Itself
What can I add to-- I mean-- It doesn't even-- and meanwhile, this photo shows up on this Baby Shower Cap Baby Shampoo Visor ["Features: Is your kid hate taking a bath because he/she hates getting water in his/her...
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September 23, 2013
Is This The Only Kid-Size Honey-Pop Chair Tokujin Yoshioka Ever Made?
Throw a rock in a Buy Buy Baby, and you'll probably hit someone who rejects cardboard kid furniture for being too flimsy and ephemeral. But there are also those who say that cardboard's too durable and strong. I mean,...
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September 20, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Future Edition
There's less science and safety this week, but that shouldn't keep this exclusive amalgamation of headlines from ruining your weekend. It's the DT Friday Freakout: A bunch of NYC independent schools--but not all!--are saying they'll drop the E.R.B. as part...
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What The Frick Kids Rode: Taxidermy Rocking Bunny
It was #AskACurator Day on Twitter this week, where 26,000 people asked a thousand curators from 581 museums around the world what their favoritest, weirdest thing in their collection was. And for the folks at The Frick Pittsburgh, it...
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September 18, 2013
In The Beginning Was These DIY Mormon Play Furniture & Blocks
I stupidly didn't buy this book last month in Utah, even when I held it in my hand--and snapped a couple of cheap shots of it with my camera. But I'm trying to make up for my blogging sins,...
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September 16, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Monday Makeup Edition
Yeah, the weekend was pretty shot, even without this assortment of headlines from the worlds of health, science, education, and parenting. So let's just this once ruin your whole week, or if you remember some of these from last week,...
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Aunt Edna Not Included: 1971 Ford Country Squire Seats Ten
This 1971 Ford Country Squire wagon is a California blue plate special in beautiful-looking condition. It features top-of-the-line woodgrain side paneling [and matching woodgrain look on the roof rack] over original paint in a color the factory once called...
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September 13, 2013
Make Your Own Fun [ADVANCED LEVEL]
Creative Playthings Melt Art set was literally a box of crayons and a hot plate. No, seriously: That's like Brick-on-a-String level of make-your-own-fun-somehow. Vintage Melt Art by Creative Playthings NIB, 1st bid $12.99+ 5.75 s/h, auction ends Sept 16...
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September 11, 2013
Creative Playthings Brick-on-a-String
After the corporate takeover of Creative Playthings, executives at CBS did try to stay true to the simple, imagination-fueling design principles the toy company had pioneered. But between the knockoffs and the red diaper nanny staters starting the CPSC,...
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September 9, 2013
Ur-Riding Ladybug From Steiff?
Well this is interesting. This pair of vintage plush riding toys coming to auction in New Jersey is attributed to Steiff. I've never seen anything like them, but I know someone who has: the designer of the Wheely Bug...
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1985 Honda Civic WagoVan Survivor
Admittedly, it's a pretty short list, but the 1985 Civic WagoVan with the wacky rear windows and the AWD is one of my all-time favorite Hondas. That you could get in the US. It was designed to hold five...
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September 8, 2013
You're With Me, Leather: Ferrari Custom Booster Seat
DT reader Todd spotted this custom booster seat & beach towel combination in a Ferrari F430 Spider at his kid's back-to-school-night. Definitely an improvement over the official licensed Ferrari Booster Seat: A couple more years, inches and pounds, and...
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DT Friday Freakout: Sonic Hedgehog Edition
The DT Friday Freakout was delayed a couple of days to rope in one more shocking article about how smoothies are killing us all. Let your weekend-ruining begin: Eat food, not a lot, mostly parents'. A Scottish study finds toddlers...
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September 6, 2013
Naoki Higashida, 13, Writes About What It's Like To Be An Autistic Kid
This book sounds absolutely incredible; I just ordered it in Japanese and in English. Naoki Higashida was 13 in 2005 when he wrote The Reason I Jump, his account of being a kid with autism. His symptoms are such that...
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My Little Sonny: Parenthood Is Magic
Matt Duron kicks some stereotyping ass in The Atlantic as he tells of raising his girly son:To me, loving a child who is different, a target and seen as vulnerable is my role as a father and decent human being....
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September 5, 2013
Look Who's Tweeting
You guys, barely famous people are tweeting in the voice of their newborn kids, and New York Magazine is on it."These are the tools that I didn't have growing up. It's important to have your dot-com for your entire life....
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The Eric Carle Museum Of Eric Carle
Look, we have all the books. And like every preschooler everywhere, I'm sure, my kids have collaged their very own Brown Bears™ or whatever during Hungry Caterpillar Week™. But literally, every time I see or hear the name, The...
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September 4, 2013
Outside The Lines: Artists Mega-Coloring Book By Souris Hong-Porretta
LA art/style/culture blogger Souris Hong-Porretta has spent the last couple of years pulling together an epic-sized artist coloring book, and now it's done. Outside The Lines has coloring pages from over 100 artists--119, actually, I just counted--and it looks...
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Creative Playthings Whale Puppet FTW
Alright, it's only been a few months, but I think this project is coming together very nicely. We'll put the 50-ft wolf puppet sculpture on top of a mountain. The giant duck puppet sculpture can go in Hong Kong....
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September 3, 2013
Child Crashes Scooter
via Anil Dash...
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DT Road Trip: West Virginia Badonk-A-Wagon
Wow, after 13 years of blogging, I might be due for one of those, "Sorry, I haven't updated in a while" posts. We went on a kid-free roadtrip this weekend in the least-wired region of the United States: the...
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