BklynDad: Archive

Dec 31st

The Homies: Best Kids Design Blog of 2008? Vote for one… [ohdeeoh] Get out the vote! This time it’s for the top prize and lots of link love. Thanks to all of you who sent in nominations for this year’s best Kid’s Design Blog. We received 23 excellent nominations (which all deserve a looksee) and whittled the field down to six based on your comments and a few other factors...

Dec 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →

Joe Williams (22) Jessica Lea Mayfield (12) Princeton (4) Blitzen Trapper (3) Centro-matic (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 29th

We wish you a Merry Christmas…

Dec 28th

More jingle bells…

Dec 28th

Sounds just like our dog, gelt-scarfing and all. Dog Who Ate Chanukah [alternadad] The other day, I went to see a friend who’d messed up her foot somehow, and now wasn’t able to get out of the house without an extreme effort. She sent me an IM begging me to come over, because she was lonely and also she wanted coffee and a muffin. My social life has devolved to the point where this...

Dec 27th

To infinity…

Dec 25th

“When his wings came out it made my eyes teary.”

– The boy, referring to his new Buzz Lightyear

Dec 25th

Last minute musical gifts, $5.00 and under

Treat yourself or a friend to an Indie Rock album on the cheap

Dec 24th

Jingle Bells as sung in the tub by the boy

Dec 24th

A Holiday Wish List for Sick Children [gowanus lounge] A great cause to support, from the fine people at Gowanus Lounge. “A reader forwarded this listing to us from a Park Slope Parents Classified. It’s yet another opportunity to do some good this holiday season:” The Child Life office at NYU, which provides toys and games to sick kids year round, is woefully underfunded and in...

Dec 23rd

Donate ‘trash’ to make toys for African kids this Xmas! [inhabitat] Calling all junk! We want yours this holiday season! Industrial leftovers, factory by products, misprints and waste — your trash can be a poor kid’s treasure. If you’ve got the privilege to be reading Inhabitat and to even consider your ecological impact, you’ve got plenty to be thankful for. Many kids in Malawi...

Dec 23rd

The He-Man Christmas Special Is the Most Important Thing Ever [Jive Tarkin] [io9] When I think of Christmas, the first thing that springs to mind is the happy fact that I am going to enjoy eternal life in Heaven. And the second is He-Man. Yes, He-Man. Maybe it’s because of that fateful December 24 when I, at the tender age of five or six, snuck out of bed and discovered that Castle Grayskull had...

Dec 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →

Joe Williams (22) Jessica Lea Mayfield (12) Princeton (4) Blitzen Trapper (3) Damien Jurado (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 22nd

Reminder: Gowanus Canal Conservancy Art Show & Sale [gowanus lounge] Remember, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is having an art show and sale called “A Sense of Place” through tomorrow. They’ve added some items too. It takes place at 298 Bond Street between Sackett and Union Street, today and tomorrow from 11AM to 7PM. On Monday, remaining art will be 20 per cent off. Here’s some info from...

Dec 21st

Operation Santa Returns, Scaled Down for Safety [gothamist] Photo Courtesy AP/Peter Morgan The US Postal Service reopened a newly modified Operation Santa Claus yesterday after it had been temporarily shut down earlier this week following a “breach of security” when a postal worker discovered that a registered sex offender in Maryland “adopted” one of the hundreds of...

Dec 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →

Sufjan Stevens (107) Elliott Smith (3) Department of Eagles (3) Jessica Lea Mayfield (2) Joseph Arthur (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 15th

Dec 14th

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Grand Magasin: It’s Kiosk For Commies! [daddytypes] With the US government busy de facto nationalizing major swaths of our crumbling economy, this Christmas season is a good time to turn our attention to the glorious, proud, worker-owned co-op factories of Europe—and then go all capitalist on them by buying their merch. That’s the idea behind the current exhibition/research...

Dec 14th