Theodore posted his bit of lo-fi patriotic Vietnamese rap yesterday, so today I’ll counter with hip-hop that I actually dig and that actually has to do with children. DadWagon friend Bambu (you might remember our Q&A with him a few months back) has been releasing some entertaining videos. This new one shows him doing exactly …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
More on Dads and Drinking
Nathan’s revelation yesterday that he’s too hungover to blog reminded me of something I’ve heard increasingly from friends: They’re quitting drinking. As a New Yorker, I’m kind of astounded that anyone would even consider this, but it’s true. One friend apparently quit drinking a while back; another, who lives in the South, did so recently. …
Patriotic Vietnamese Teen Rapping!
JP’s mother is Vietnamese, which makes him half-Vietnamese, which also means I feel justified in putting up this laughably ridiculous student rap, produced in Vietnam. As far as I can tell, it’s got nothing to do with children or parenting, other than the fact that the people who made it are young, and it’s bad, …
My Son, My General
I had no idea that Kim Jong-Il and I had so much in common! We love our sons, and wish for them to have excellent futures. As the Times reported yesterday, Kim has begun to make arrangements (somewhat hastily, since his health is failing) for his youngest boy to take over the Democratic People’s Republic …