You haven’t experienced true frustration until you’ve tried to put a child to bed.

My son has recently established that he has left the cute and cuddly world of baby bliss and entered the aptly named terrible twos. He’s two and a half, an entire year later than when his sister decided to test the waters of childhood schizophrenia. She’s left the twos behind, fortunately. Mostly that means she [...]

PBS Kids is running a self-promo between programs that shows kids and PBS characters playing on a beach. It’s black and white with splashes of green and a catchy tune is playing in the background. I couldn’t find any reference to the song anywhere so I wrote PBS. And they wrote back today with the [...]

Since my lovely and talented wife (LATW) occasionally needs to use the telephone for, you know, actual phone calls, she decided to restrict the childrens’ use of the intercom feature to essential pages only. This put a damper on their superhero play. How does one call for backup or receive a call from the mayor [...]

I finally got around to buying some tracks from Electric Version by The New Pornographers. Both of their albums are fantastic and you should check them out. And listening to them on the headphones while the kids watch Play With Me Sesame… well, watching muppets sing “We’re twisting incognito with no time, can’t talk / [...]

It’s 3:15 in the morning and, rather than sleep, I’m sitting here creating a mix CD and contemplating the conversation I’ll have with my daughter tomorrow regarding a certain folk singer from Okemah who sang one of her favorite songs (of the moment), Mail Myself to You, decades before she was ever born. I bet [...]

Son, tonight I had the opportunity to take a photo of you running around the house like a lunatic, naked, with your sister’s pink and purple dress-up shoes on. And I didn’t. I had the camera, the flash was charged, the picture was in focus. And I didn’t release the shutter. So don’t ever say [...]

Software called Picture Project came with my Nikon D70 DSLR. I recommend throwing that CD directly in the trash and downloading a free copy of Nikon View from their web site. Nikon View is a suite that includes an image browser, a viewer, and Nikon Edit, a low-end version of Nikon Capture. The Nikon View [...]

This is more fun that it has any right to be. My son stumbled across it while we were waiting for dinner. He loved it. Teletubbies: harmless, demented fun.

This is the best movie I’ve seen in months and my favorite zombie movie of all time. Go rent it right now. What are you still doing here? Go. Now!