Bad Dads We Love: Pothead Edition

Partly because I’m a bit hungover, this appeals to me: An expectant dad somewhere in western Pennsylvania—okay, Fayette County, wherever that is—lit up a joint in the hospital smoking room. To celebrate or something. As Sasha has started saying, “Oh my God!” Quoth the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Uniontown police Sgt. Jonathan Grabiak said a Uniontown Hospital …

The Vacation Meta-Dilemma

Sometime today I should be getting a call or e-mail from Jean, letting me know if her planned vacation dates have been approved by her boss. I’m really very excited—for all the traveling I do, it’s rarely with her and Sasha, and even more rarely can the trips qualify as actual vacation. That is, most …

Procreation, Exploitation, Litigation

Ain’t that how it always goes? You have a couple of girls, shoot uncomfortable videos of them teenage and topless in the 1970s, and then, when you’re dead, they make their hatred of you well known. So it goes, at least, with the late art-world star Larry Rivers, whose daughters, according to a lengthy Vanity …