We at Dadwagon are no strangers to trivia, and yet this week we seriously indulged our obsessions with the minor, negligible, insignificant aspects of fatherhood. Perhaps this is because we chose as our Tantrum the not-necessarily-vital question “Is It Wrong to Raise a Geek?”
If so, that certainly explains the excitement with which Theodore pounced upon the Napmink! and his credulity in actually believing something printed in the Daily Mail. (Ha!) But it might be just a balancing-out after his poignant meditation on death.
Christopher, meanwhile, let himself get all moony—almost crying, he says!—over not only the Olympic opening ceremonies but the speed at which his little kid is growing up. Hey, Bonanos, know what else old baby underwear is good for? Drying up almost-tears!
Of course, I’m absolutely irrelevant as well. Swinging one moment from an obsession with armpits, the next to cheap Photoshop tricks, the next to the latest Brooklyn baby bar ban, I was only consistent in my willingness to deploy exclamation points and the phrase “OMG.”
Nathan, however, is the most perplexing case. He wrote about a study on Private Public Schools. He kvetched that U.S. mombloggers are more materialistic than their UK counterparts. He even actually interviewed Bambu, the Filipino version of Mos Def. Hey, Thorny, why so serious? What’s with all this, like, journalism?
And that was the week on the ‘wagon. Tune in Monday for something very special—our first video feature! It’s sure to be exciting, if trivial.