The Washington Post has shuttered the On Parenting blog. Blogger Brian Reid, in the course of four years of writing posts that he says came out to twice the length of the Great Gatsby, announced his departure on Monday. Of course, WaPo has a history of sheepish blog-kills. A few years back its popular Post.blog was …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Brooklyn: Face Plant Edition
Ah, Brooklyn: where it’s expensive; where there’s no parking; where it’s nasty full of hipsters and their statement facial hair; where we all have dog envy; where the grocery store sells yogurt that finds it necessary to bill itself as “artisanal,” “organic,” and from “Vermont,” all in one label; where astroturf is a symbol of …
Today in Fatherhood: Illegal Fun
Thanks to the gurus at the Googleplex, we are alerted constantly to the highs and lows of fatherhood across the world. Actually, it’s mostly lows, because Google alerts often seems like the world’s most sophisticated Police Blotter. Let’s dig in to this week’s highlights: • In Louisiana, a dad and his 12-year-old daughter decided to play …
Interview with the Man from ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy
With The Road, the cinematic adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel, now in movie theaters, a new audience is getting exposed to the nightmarish tale of survival in a post-apocalyptic landscape. At its core though, The Road is about the heartwarming relationship between a father, the Man, and his son, the Boy, as they fight …
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