February 2012
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“Sixteen-year-old Antonia (last name withheld) also runs a popular, photo-based...”
– THE HUNGER TUMBLRS. Not a happy read.
While watching The Dark Crystal this morning
Bug: Daddy, does this movie have any girls in it?
Me: Yes.
Bug: OK.
Me: Is that important now?
Bug: Yes.
Me: Noted.
Hugest Milestone
Bug just told me, for the first time, that I was embarrassing her. She’s four years and seven days old, but she’s groaning at least a sixth grade level.
“Daddy… I just thought of something. Luke Skywalker has to kill his daddy,...”
– Drew McWeeny on his experience watching ‘Revenge of the Sith’ with his kids, who are devastated by the experience.
Via @sarahsprague, who correctly promised that the piece “brings the tears.”
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Damn WIfus is sick so I came home to take care of...
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“Baby formula: it’s one of the most important decisions you make as a...”
– The fearbastardmongering Enfamil commercial that just came on. We’re watching TLC, so it was followed by a Paxil Deforms Your Baby ad.
January 2012
107 posts
“Ok. Am done. Tired. Fuck all of you Kenyans (my gossip self included) whose...”
– An 80-proof rant credited to Kenyan satirist Binyavanga Wainaina.
The great thing about satire is its a universal emotional language. You don’t need to know any of the politicians mentioned to understand the anger here.
“Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, the Glock...”
– From the Times book review of “Glock,” by Paul M. Barrett.
When I was reporting in East Africa about a hundred years ago, I got it in my head to write a political history of the AK-47. If I could write a paragraph like that, I probably would have.
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WatchSo this here is a video of a five month old giggling like a goon at her 4-year old sister wearing her grandmother’s bizarre idea of a Catwoman costume while the 4-year old sings “I Got the Moves Like Jagger,” a song which sounds like a song Stephen King would make up as part of a story but which I understand is a real song.
For your enjoyment.
The Daddy Complex said he likes us →
… and a dozen other Daddy blogs. Thanks, TDC.
I noticed that I’m the only one dumb enough to use his name in the url. That one’s gonna bite me someday soon.
The Daddy Complex: Update On My "Bedtime Threat"... →
thedaddycomplex:
As you know, I created a method for keeping my boys in bed at bedtime. For those that don’t know, it’s pretty simple. I pick six random (and inexpensive) toys and place them on the boys’ dresser. Throughout the bedtime routine, I remind them that after I leave the room, if I have to come back in for any reason other than an emergency, one or two of those toys will be thrown...
