Fathers' Day Story from Dooce about stay-at-home dads, daughters and public bathrooms. It's a little graphic, a lot funny.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
hippocampus - Jun 16, 2008 8:08:23 am PDT #3358 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 8:11:12 am PDT #3359 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nice Father's Day story, except for my lurking suspicion that it wouldn't be a story if her *mother* had learned to braid their adopted daughter's hair.
Yeah, I totally agree. Still sweet.
I am reminded of the mother at the day care center I used to work at, who couldn't do her daughter's hair to save her life. They were both African American. All of us staff people were relieved when the mother started taking the little girl to a place to get her hair done.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2008 8:13:50 am PDT #3360 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Black girls and their hair can be such a huge deal, though, that it magnifies the gender disparities through quite a lense.
I love it when I have stuff from my salad to joyfully share with everyone I may be eating with
You are the Nilliest ever.
I forgot to buy tomatoes yesterday, dammit. I saw them, all there, flaunting their vines, but I just forgot to pick some up. They are key in my omelettes and breakfast potatoes, and I'm being very lazy cooking these days.
Toddson - Jun 16, 2008 8:14:41 am PDT #3361 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This made me sniffle.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2008 8:15:40 am PDT #3362 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
except for my lurking suspicion that it wouldn't be a story if her *mother* had learned to braid their adopted daughter's hair.
Well it wouldn't be a Father's Day story anyway.
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2008 8:15:52 am PDT #3363 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My dad never learned how to do my hair when I was little. When I was in kindergarten, my mom was in the hospital for a few weeks (double bypass), and my hair became just one huge tangle. My aunt came stay with us for a little while to help out, and it took her a few hours to get the knots out.
Kathy A - Jun 16, 2008 8:18:48 am PDT #3364 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here. I hope it at least sends some ~ma Dana's way, because IIRC she is very right in thinking that, too.
Joining Nilly and Dana in the hate-raw-tomatoes corner. The smell, the texture, the seeds--blech! But, I like gazpacho and salsa.
Yes, I am weird.
Tom Scola - Jun 16, 2008 8:21:01 am PDT #3365 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Joining Nilly and Dana in the hate-raw-tomatoes corner.
And me.
But, I like gazpacho and salsa.
Me too! I think the spiciness cuts through whatever's yucky about the tomatoes.
Dana - Jun 16, 2008 8:21:18 am PDT #3366 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have been very restrained. I have only pointed out a couple of times that raw tomatoes are Satan's food, and this just proves it.
amych - Jun 16, 2008 8:24:29 am PDT #3367 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think the spiciness cuts through whatever's yucky about the tomatoes.
Also, the lack of disgusting slimy gelatinous goo spiked with nasty bitter seed-bombs.