Via DadWagon friend @CMonstah (“the Zen master of the hi-lo” who was, as if you hadn’t heard, called one of the 9 twitterers to read out of millions), comes this spoofy impression of German director Werner Herzog reading Curious George. For anyone who has even briefly contemplated the cruelty of George’s forced expatriation to the Big …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Tantrum: Do Children Belong in Bars, Part 2?
No, they don’t–but I will offer a compromise position if you read on. I should begin by explaining that I am a longtime resident of Murray Hill, a neighborhood that was the epicenter of of fashionable Manhattan living around 1915. By the early 1990s, it was a little shabby but pleasant–it wasn’t decayed, just kind …
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U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S… uh, we’ve got a leak here.
Parents! The disposable-diaper world has been rocked by controversy! Right now, Pampers is rolling out an improvement to its products, calling its Dry Max technology a revolutionary change in pee-sopping. (Briefly: More liquid-absorbing gel inside, and less papery pulp, creating a thinner diaper.) Ad Age reports that a small minority of consumers have been making …
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The Tantrum: Do Children Belong in Bars?
(This is the Tantrum, in which the four Dadwagon editors debate an important, or sometimes pointless, issue in parenthood.) In New York City, there are many ways of getting attention. Some are hard, like rescuing someone who’s fallen onto the subway tracks or spending $185 per vote to get yourself re-elected mayor. Some, however, are …