JP’s mother and I just signed him up to be tested for the city’s Gifted and Talent program. Next month, on a Sunday, we’ll take him to the public school around the corner (the one he wasn’t able to get into for Pre-K), where world famous educators will spend a couple of hours prodding him …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
A Breakthrough?
Stayed home this morning for an extra hour or so, to wait for a repairman, and kept my son at home–mostly because I didn’t want to run out and back before 9 a.m., but also because I spent so little time with him in the past week, it seemed like a way to get in …
MILF: The Other Side of the Story
Passed along by Alex Smith, the beared rockfather behind Flaming Pablum, here’s a music video from Astronomical Kid highlighting the terrible costs paid by possessive pseudo-sexual adolescent boys who happen to have hot moms. The second verse gets right to it: I don’t understand why these dudes just looking at her Like they never seen …
Whoops I Ate a Pony
Only at the end of last night’s dinner of oxtail stew did we finally understand what Nico, our two-year-old, had been happily prattling on about: he thought he had been eating a pony. “It’s not a pony?” he asked. He finished the sentence with the same exaggerated uptilt he puts on the end of all …