From the Gloss: Think of all the things that make people really cool, like playing guitar, or breakdancing, or skateboarding. Babies can’t do any of that. What are babies good at? You might say to me, “Turning into an adult?” And I’d reply, “Thank you for engaging in this conversation, Imaginary Friend, but unfortunately you …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Defending Death Metal to the, um, Death?
Random solicitations from blogs I’ve never heard of don’t usually end well, but I was glad that Beth Winegarner dropped me a line about her new blog Backwards Messages. It has a very specific raison d’blog, namely, it’s all about knocking down the preposterous arguments that people make about how heavy metal or the occult or …
The Tantrum, Part 2: Should Your Babymama Be a ‘Chinese Mother’?
Some years back I attended a graduate school lecture with my then-girlfriend (whom I would later marry and have JP with) on Asian-American pyschology. To be clear: I don’t mean the mentality of Asian-Americans, but rather, the study of psychology in Asian-Americans and the development of ethnically specific treatments. The lecturer, a prominent researcher, related …
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Like the Most Miniscule Drag Queen
So a send-up of horrible momblogging is low-hanging fruit, but I dig this mockery on Urlesque because it’s not afraid to get weird. Behold the World’s Worst Mommy Blogger (a Parody), written by Tess Lynch, cooing over her newborn. I love to look at Little Harrison while he’s sleeping. I just think…he’s so small, so …