Posts tagged “parenthood”

I’m not terrified of inflation or student loan debt.
I’m not terrified of global warming or tornadoes or hurricanes.
I’m not terrified of nuclear war or Russia or China.
I’m not terrified of COVID or monkeypox or salmonella.
I’m terrified of dropping my son off at kindergarten.

I still can’t believe they spent weeks hyping first ever live performance of We Don’t Talk about Bruno so every kid convinced parents to let them stay up late on a school night and then they performed that weird We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Oscar 2022 Version) instead. Kids hated.

We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.

Great New York Times Opinion article by Ross Douthat but it misses 2 biggest reasons:

  1. fear of always-armed, gun-toting public and
  2. tix + dinner + babysitter + $12 popcorn = car payment

There’s got to be some way to harness the energy produced by a 6yo spending 20+ minutes to chew a single fish stick bite. Is someone working on this?

All children’s clothes should have a blank tag where you can write your kid’s name. How is this not a thing?

My 11-yo son and all his friends have discovered rickrolling.

The easiest way to teach siblings how to count is to give them a different number of M&Ms with dessert.

Literally any task can be made dramatically more complicated with the simple addition of a six year old narrating your every move on a karaoke microphone set at maximum volume.

Fun activity: Any child who licks their elbow can open one Christmas present early.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.