Occasionally I have good ideas. Or at least I used to. In reading through some of my writing from before Clementine was born, a little over 11 years ago now, I was reminded of this. I had ambitious plans. Sadly, though, most of these plans went out the window once the realities of fatherhood began […]
By Mark | February 4, 2011
The “tiger mom” shit was bad enough, but this video has me feeling really terrible about my efforts as a father to make my daughter smart enough to help save the planet when she gets older. I’m ashamed to say, she knows the whole backstory on every single minor character in Harry Potter, including the […]
By Mark | October 19, 2009
I wasn’t going to write about the Balloon Boy hoax… I wasn’t… But, then I read an interview on Gawker with a man that worked with Richard Heene, the father of the Balloon Boy, in which it’s mentioned that the fame-obsessed dad was, among other things, obsessed by the idea that the world is really […]
Posted in Media, Observations, Other | Also tagged 1947, Balloon Boy, Biefield-Brown Effect, David Icke, Dr. Jonathan Chase, fake police reports, flying saucer, Gawker, hoaxes, Manimal, obsession with fame, reality television, reptilian, reptilian humanoids, Richard Heene, Roswell, shape shifting, UFO |
It doesn’t happen terribly often, but occasionally something will happen on this site that will remind me why I spend several hours each night, hunched over this little computer screen, churning posts out into the abyss. Today, was one of those days. An amazing comment was left in an old thread about local prostitution, and […]
Posted in Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged addiction, alcoholism, attempted suicide, Blondell, cautionary tales, child abuse, Dilaudid, domestic violence, foster care, gun violence, Hash Bash, heroin, hitchhiking, homelessness, Hubba Bubba, jail, Kincheloe, life on the street, Michigan Avenue, molestation, morphine, pimps, prostitution, rape, Sault St. Marie, second chances, Social Services, turning your life around |
The next time I start doubting my parenting skills, would someone please do me a favor and remind me of this… I could be doing a whole hell of a lot worse…
