It should be said that I am a guy who lives life on the edge. Not in the way that those mountain climbers out West, who’ve been missing for over a week after attempting to scale a great wall of ice at 8,000 feet. Oh no. That’s too easy. The dangers obvious and straightforward. No, I prefer the subtle and many layered dangers of everyday life. (more…)
Okay, so now that I’ve gotten most of the Mr. Mom Angst out of my system I can focus on far more silly things.
PERHAPANAUTS for example. (more…)
Fa la la la la, la la, la, la!
Man, does anyone else get sick and tired of all the running around at this time of year? Parties, visits, obligatory gift giving. (more…)
I was super stoked to get an email from one of the creators of GARGOYLES a week or so ago. They were shopping around for fill-in artists to work on the new Gargoyles comic book. Like all the other comic book artists I know, I have NO IDEA what is going on in the industry, so it was a double pleasure. A comic? Me maybe draw comic? Happy day! (more…)
Okay so just the other day I was griping about Daisy Scouts. And seriously, I actually like the Daisies as an organization. I just have no desire to participate.
But I must have forgotten all about my other fun little girl activity, gymnastics. This is way worse than Daisies on the “Daddy Would Rather Die†chart. (more…)
The Daisy Scouts for example. What, you ask, are the Daisy Scouts? Well, the Daisies are Girl Scouts for kindergarten kids. Twice a month the Widget gets together with the other three rug rats that comprise her troop (pack, brood . . .whatever) and they do all sorts of crafts, and play games, and sing songs. (more…)
We put the ol’ Yule Stick up today –otherwise know as a Christmas tree. Its not that I’m a pagan. Its just that I understand that Jesus was most likely born in September, and the whole tree/gift thing is an entirely non-Christian tradition. So I’ve taken to calling it a Yule tree (which irritates the crap out of my wife, which in turn makes me look for reasons to mention the stupid thing).
This year we upgraded our fake tree to a much better fake tree. The old one was so ghetto Charlie Brown that I couldn’t take it anymore and I “accidentally†took it to the dump while I was moving to the attic for storage last year. I had intended to be smart and buy a fancy one over the summer when they are cheap. But who the hell thinks about holiday trees in August? So we bought it today.
I love it. It opens like a big three piece umbrella with the lights already on it. And it actually looks nice. Hell, if I hadn’t taken it out of the bubble wrap myself I’d swear it was real. I wonder if they make them with the ornaments already attached too? Because hanging all that junk is a drag. (more…)
Last night was “Date Nightâ€. I love date night. When it happens. Which is almost never. For you kids without, er . . .kids, or for you not-single, but not-parent types, this is what life with children is reduces to. 98% Spongebob Squarepants, 2% doing adult things.
Because it happens to be where our babysitter was, we went to Manchester. Manch-vegas, as it is known is the closest thing Dee and I have to a hip urban environment. Its neither of these things (hip or urban) in any real sense of the words. (more…)