As the birth of my second child nears, I’m forced to confront the reality that babies are, in fact, hideously ugly. No point in denying it–little raisin-things covered in poop, screaming at high volumes, clutching the air with sweat-covered claws. It’s not pretty. The only relief comes in knowing that as a parent you will …
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Let A Thousand “Ack!” Headlines Bloom
“Cathy” is dunzo. The clumsily drawn comic strip that celebrated semi-hapless, semi-feisty single-womanhood (and, more recently, married-womanhood) is, after 34 years of chocolate jokes and man troubles, being retired. Creator Cathy Guisewite is citing creative exhaustion, and I for one think she’s completely correct. But enough about her. What struck me, as I read about …
Bad, bad Kiddie!
Via Gawker: An eleven-year-old “movie critic” named Jackson was on the Early Show this morning and he MUST BE STOPPED. Or as a person named Lindsey Weber from someplace called URDB via something else apparently known as Tumblr (can someone out there explain the internet to me?) put it: This is the opposite of a …
Friend or Feast?
My daughter’s main imaginary friend, Zoe, has been on a strange journey. She came into our house around the time my uncle was killed, and had a fairly therapeutic role: dying often in motorcycle crashes, but coming back alive after naptime to play as if nothing had happened. When all of that calmed down, Zoe …