I stumbled across this amazing study this morning--literally, since I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, and it was in USA Today: ladies, just eat more peanuts during pregnancy, and our country's long peanut-free nightmare might be over.pregnant women...
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December 2013 Archives
December 29, 2013
Peanuts Better, Says JAMA
Maxi Cosi X Baby Jogger: The Multi-Brand Travel System Bundle Has Arrived
Wow, this is unusual. Or have I just not been paying attention? Usually, buying a travel system [a stroller + carseat combo] means you get one brand, and little choice or flexibility. If you're buying something beyond top-of-the-line, like...
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December 27, 2013
Disney Viral Marvel Reboot Plushie Fan Art WTF
By the gleamin' gates of funky Asgard, what the hell. Disney is rebooting/revamping/relaunching all of Marvel's properties? And so they basically plundered DeviantArt for viral clickbait attention-getting ideas, like turning all their properties into animals. Like these X-Men cats....
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War-Ravaged England Builds Giant Dollhouse For Queen
Sometimes England is so weird. Like the time the whole place was devastated and dejected and injured and dead in the wake of World War I, and Princess Marie-Louise thought building a huge dollhouse for Queen Mary filled with...
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December 26, 2013
The Bank, By Superflex And The Residents Of Sharjah, UAE
It's Things I Really Want To Post Before The End Of The Year Week here at DT, starting with The Bank. The Danish artist collective Superflex contributed one of the most thoughtful installations for this year's Sharjah Art Biennial....
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December 24, 2013
Have Yourself A Merry PeeWee Christmas
Oh crap, I thought I'd get a little writing done while the rest of the family's at the 8th performance of The Nutcracker this year. But Andy Baio just tweeted out the link to PeeWee Herman's Christmas Special. Looks...
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December 21, 2013
Will Tweet For Cars
Thanks, @Honda, for the best gift ever - my new Odyssey m̶i̶n̶i̶ maxi van! instagram.com/p/hj4x1KyToL/— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) December 6, 2013 promoted by Honda And if Honda had wanted NPH to 'gram the whole car, they should have sent...
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Penn & Teller Autism Vaccination Bullshit FTW
Oh man, this is so awesome. I'd pay good money to watch @pennjillette throw these balls at Jenny McCarthy: — John Gruber (@gruber) December 21, 2013 Disclosure: A publisher of a book with a foreword written by Jenny McCarthy...
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December 19, 2013
No Abs > No Cape
I'm willing to cut this cute Batman raincoat some slack on the "No capes!" rule. But it still fails my "No Abs" test. Why do all kids' costumes these days have abs? This is going to lead to crazy...
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December 18, 2013
Agamben Toys
First and foremost is the awesome name, obviously. Then I guess the thing I'm thinking about as I scroll back through Agamben Toys' archive is amazement and despair at the breadth and variety of Playmobil Riot Police over the...
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One Small Buy In Now For Dad, The Moon Cars For Mankind
So think about it. In 1969-70, it was the Cultural Revolution, a wholesale disruption of the entire Chinese civilization that shipped all the city folk to scrounge for yams on dirt farms in the provinces. Meanwhile, America was not...
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December 17, 2013
The Top 10 Topics You're Not Going To Find On Daddy Types
10. Whether celebrities waxed their baby's unibrow. Actually, that right there's pretty much our top 1 through 10. We will note that Orbit's anti-paparazzi shield has proven to be a masterstroke of design, at least in terms of cementing its...
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December 16, 2013
Slate: Making Fake Babies For Discount Shopping Since Saturday
Congratulations to Matt Yglesias, whose fake baby Tim Duncan Crawford was born over the weekend as part of a Slate pitch on how you don't need to actually verify you have a baby to get 20% discounts on subscriptions...
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KKKute Overload
A young boy in KKK robes sees his reflection in a riot shield held by a Georgia state trooper, '92. By Todd Robertson pic.twitter.com/CH1Sveszx2— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) December 16, 2013 I was going to be shocked that this was...
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December 15, 2013
Unexpected Delivery
When one's new baby is a day overdue, this is how one properly trolls one's family: pic.twitter.com/l5F8sZfpWu— Dan Wineman (@dwineman) December 14, 2013...
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December 12, 2013
Works Every Time!
I am unironically in favor of naming kids with numbers, and with brand names, if that's your thing. So to the Stratemeyers of Tillamook, I say congratulations and bravo, and I pop a can in your newest family member's...
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'The Longer The Road There, The Less Chance You Have Of Arriving.'
Jonathan Gourlay writes beautifully about his son's birth, and about walking in the woods: It is interesting how, in the doctor's notes, Resuscitation Table is capitalized. As if it were the capital of the state of Resuscitation, a place you...
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December 11, 2013
Vladimir Nabarkevious
So yes, Louisiana State defensive end Barkevious Mingo. How'd that happen? Barkevious has a similar beginning to Reese's peanut butter cups. His father, Hugh Mingo, named two of Mingo's older brothers Hugh and Hughtavious. After that, his mother, Barbara Johnson,...
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December 10, 2013
Vladimir Nabokov, At-Home-Dad
I knew he was an uprooted aristocrat, a refugee, and a serious amateur lepidopterist. But nothing prepared me for the shocking revelations about the home life of one of my favorite writers. From Jason Edward Harrington's review of Andrea Pitzer's...
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You're Wrong, Person On Cheeses
I don't know how New York Magazine gets their numbers, but they are wrong about how many kids are named Cheese. The Babycenter survey data they show is only for boys. And on BabyCenter's own site, there have been eight...
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Sophie's Choice (2013)
Oh no, the last bit of inorganic milk filled the entire sippy cup! And so I'm left filling the other cup with organic! How do I decide which kid gets the inferior milk?? DON'T MAKE ME DECIDE THIS, CRUEL...
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December 9, 2013
Dad Lang Syne
Jason and the Existential Why of Christmas:The first of a new kind of holiday for us. I thought of the Winter Solstice: in the face of days that had grown colder and nights that had grown longer, people huddled together...
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Have You Seen Me?
My son lost his shoe. It's identical to the one seen here. For tips or shoe sightings call 909-54-SLIWA pic.twitter.com/3FuGS70MGY— Curtis Sliwa (@CurtisSliwa) December 9, 2013 If only there were someone who could make it safe to walk the streets...
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It's Hard Out There For A Male Doula
I was going to go with the male doula, but there seem to be two of them. Also sounds like all the male birth attending money is in midwifery, with prenatal massage on the side. Men at Work for Women...
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December 8, 2013
I Got $20 For Lattes In My Pocket
Gentrification is real pic.twitter.com/NIbTTC17XR— صوفيا طارق (@SophFierce) December 8, 2013...
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December 7, 2013
Fisher-Price Meets Buy 'N Large
Sheesh. No one complained when our flip phones looked like Star Trek. Or when our iPads looked like, uh, Star Trek: The Next Generation. But let Fisher-Price design an iPad-holding infant chair that looks like Wall*E, and people start...
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December 5, 2013
Tracey From The Shop: Rothko Comfort Blanket
For six months in 1993 the young British artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas opened what we'd now call a pop-up shop in east London called The Shop. They sold little doodads and objets that they'd made, including, apparently,...
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December 3, 2013
Etihad Airlines And Flying Nannies Both Exist
I'll be honest, I don't fly in and out of Abu Dhabi, but I'd still like to think I'd at least heard of Etihad Airways before seeing their logo plastered all over the off-the-hook UAE college student conference which...
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'Supermax Creche'
Life under capitalism is a supermax creche in which 'neither growing up nor working hard will do you any good'. Madame Tlank and Clinical Wasteman anatomise the dialectic of childhood and adulthood as one in which wise children of...
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