DADWAGON

We’re converting. I think. I mean, I don’t know where I’m going to get a baptismal record for my son, who was never baptized. Nor am I confident that a boy who is really not that excited about the sight of blood will be able to concentrate in a classroom that has a gigantic statue [...]

Have you ever wished you could see inside your child’s brain? Not with a hacksaw and a sheet of curved plastic—I mean, anyone can do that. What I’ve always wanted was to watch it tick, to see little 3-year-old Sasha’s brain make new connections, to finally crest each hill of understanding. As it is, we [...]

Tony Reflex is yet another pseudonym for O.C. punk rock legend Tony Adolescent, who has graced these pages before. Just saw on Reflex’s personal blog a bitching list of the top-ten not-shitty holiday songs. Or perhaps, yes-shitty, because the songs are mostly about the holidays as they really are: melancholy, fractious, dark, disappointing. It’s a [...]

I have on various occasions written of JP’s taste for both videogame playing and the use of e-readers, and described my at best ambivalent feelings about said pursuits. Now, from the Demise of the Childhood Mind chronicles comes a story with a (relatively and likely temporary) happy ending: JP has become so engrossed with learning [...]