The danger signs probably started appearing long ago, but I missed them until yesterday morning. That was when, in what is becoming an increasingly contentious process, I tried to get Sasha dressed for preschool. The kid, so normally fond of her velcro sneakers, refused to let me put them on, and kicked and screamed so …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
There is no Santa Claus
What the drunken baby was for physical comedy, this is for intellectual humor. Amazing entry from Alberto González Vázquez for the No Todo Film Fest. And if you speak Spanish, a double bonus to be able to behold how the “child” in this short film uses every ounce of the lyric brutality that Castillian cursing …
Baby in a Bar: the Movie
Today we are attempting to get non-blog work done. Behold, then, this brilliant trailer for “Las Palmas” by Johannes Nyholm in lieu of regularly scheduled content. I, by the way, will be seeing this entire movie many, many times when it is released over here. In the meantime, if you are in Sweden (Nathan Hegedus, …
Sleeping While Male: Guilty As Charged
From the Times’s Motherlode blog: In the “Things You Already Knew But It’s Nice to Have Them Confirmed So You Know You Aren’t Imagining Things” department, the Washington Post ran news this week of a new research study that concluded that “Women are more likely than men to give up sleep to care for children.” …