As a part-time aficionado of eccentricities of Japanese people (including, but not limited to, the family I married into), I am a fan of Japantrends.com. They cover a wide range of wierdness, from ads against crotchrot to personalized baby handprint stamps. My favorite find of their are user-supplied videos of nakipita, the art of making baby …
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If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard, You’ve Got Two Moms
A very important video from Australia, in honor of our own Matt G. and all the other beardy fathers out there:
Oil and Anger
From my good friend Kerry comes word of this front-page Key West Citizen report that the oil is, as feared, closing in on the southern Gulf. According to the Citizen: Fishing is banned in parts of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary west of the Dry Tortugas, where an oil sheen was 100 miles away and …
Henpecked at the Petting Zoo
This Memorial Day weekend, we stopped by Terhune Orchards in central Jersey, because what could honor our troops more than apple cider slushies, u-pick strawberry fields, and a fleet of broken-down toy tractors? All of that entertainment was secondary, however, to the little farm section of the orchards, where goats and geese and (sometimes) a …