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What We're Doing Here

2009-11-07T10:04:44-05:00

I walked in late, the last to arrive; yesterday was a travel day, and it had been delays and missing the invitees' dinner and a steak with three Martinis to make up for that. The rest were sitting at the...

Dear School System

2009-11-05T22:02:25-05:00

As my twin daughters begin the long, slow descent from the gentle arms of pre-K into the savage maw of Kindergarten and the infinite abyss of public school education that lies beyond, I hereby request that the following items be...

Catacombs and the Forbidden City - A DadCentric Book Review

2009-11-04T18:02:00-05:00

You know how I feel about the books and the action and the mystery and the stuff. I'm for it. I'm always looking for the next Encyclopedia Brown to come along. Maybe a Three Investigators. Hey, it could happen. That's...

Post-Halloween Reflections: In Defense of That One House

2009-11-04T10:30:00-05:00

I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t write this post. Ah, screw it. So Halloween is over for another year. Jack O’Lanterns are rotting on their porches. Hollow plastic pumpkins have been filled and emptied again. Costumes have been traded in...

DadCentric Reviews: The Jimmies, "Trying Funny Stuff"

2009-11-03T20:24:42-05:00

Statement of Full Disclosure: the PR guy who works for the self-described "ridiculous and burgeoning rock band for kids" The Jimmies emailed me a few weeks back and asked me if I would like a copy of their new DVD/CD...

The New Nissan Sedans - A DadCentric Review

2009-11-03T20:09:42-05:00

I spent a recent weekend hanging out at Nissan's San Diego headquarters driving fast and taking chances. I had to sign waivers. I think. The good people at Nissan flew me to San Diego, put me up at the W...

A Happy Ending

2009-11-02T22:39:12-05:00

A week chock full of Events, and as of 6:45 PM PST Monday November 2, I'd yet to even begin a post. DadCentric is my job. Writer's block isn't an option. If I were my boss, I'd fire me. Two...

Four

2009-10-30T18:47:22-04:00

I was gonna put together a long and thoughtful post about DadCentric's fourth anniversary, which is tomorrow. It was to contain words like "ground-breaking" and "revolutionary" and "influential". Eh. That sounds assy, even to me. If accolades are to be...

Coming forth from the primordial ooze of the tubes

2009-10-30T14:05:03-04:00

It was around this time in 2005 that Jason wrote about getting it in his head that there weren't a lot of blogs out there that catered to him and his ilk. (Can I just say that I love the...

DadCentric Alumni: We Check In with Cynical Dad

2009-10-30T11:23:14-04:00

Alumni Week continues with a visit from Chag Holland, AKA Cynical Dad. The title's somewhat misleading; he's not that cynical, but he is funny and thoughtful, and remains at the top of the dadblogging heap. And even though I've yet...