The Modernish Father

Well crap. I got started on the whole big recap story and then The Girl decided to start fussing and crying. I’ve had to go in her room four times in the past hour, so tonight’s not looking so good for long-form writing either. Besides, I’m not really in the mood to be witty or [...]

After all that build up yesterday, you’d think I would have actually delivered today. No so fast my friend. I forgot that the conclusion of something I had started watching on PBS last week came on tonight. Since I had already invested two hours in it last week, I decided it was worth investing another [...]

Sorry about the lack of updates, but I had to suspend my blogging so I could rush back to Washington and save our nation’s economy. I even had to cancel an appearance on Letterman at the last minute to do it. Now that it appears that society as we know it has been saved, I’ll [...]

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Aug. 25th to Sep. 23rd:

It’s been a very busy couple of days. Right now I’m sitting in a very full house as my parents, my brother, his girlfriend, my family and a myriad of pets sit around glued to the television watching Hurricane Ike hit our hometown nearly head-on. It’s at time like these I’m glad that I live [...]

The Boy becomes obsessed with random things from time to time. First it was presidents, then maps, then Super Monkey Ball, then Paper Mario, then crossword puzzles, then Zelda. Now he’s set his sights firmly on golf. I don’t know why golf has caught his fancy. I don’t play golf. We don’t live next to [...]

After watching most of the evening coverage of both party’s conventions over the last two weeks, I’ve come to a single, undeniable conclusion: Republican or Democrat, white or black, young or old – people who attend political conventions have absolutely no business dancing at them.

I don’t know any decent Labor Day jokes, so I’ll refrain from trying to make one up. Just insert whatever you can come up with on your own here. This wasn’t supposed to be a three-day weekend for The Wife and I, but it became one for me since The Girl’s daycare was closed today. [...]