This clip came via Lindy West (one of 20 under 40!), so I can’t take credit for unearthing it. But because this is a dad-blog, the big-monster-came-and-took-him-to-daddy-heaven line in the clip below seems a good tribute to Leslie Nielsen. The native of Regina (rhymes with ‘vagina’), Saskatchewan–a member of Canada’s Walk of Fame and would-be …
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Because we’re creeping up on 1) the one-year anniversary of Tiger Woods’s libidinal meltdown and 2) the weekend after Michael Vick absolutely chain-choked the Redskins on national TV, I’ve been thinking a bit about the ongoing rehabilitation of both of these men. They’re taking two very different paths, and one of them is succeeding, the …
It’s NBA season, and my Golden State Warriors actually have a winning record, thanks to an odd bonhomie between Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry. They even have new owners that appear, in contrast to most NBA owners, not to despise their team’s fanbase. I thought it appropriate, then, to try to explain my current misery …
Two kids or three? I’ve been entirely certain that we had reached our limit—two kids—until this weekend, when some sort of synapse fired and suddenly it didn’t seem like complete insanity to have another child. It seemed, in fact, like a lovely idea. Now that it’s Monday and all the reveries of the weekend have …
