Remind Her That You’ll Always Find Her Sexy “The months post-partum are like a weird kind of adult puberty. You’re bleeding for weeks, your hormones are leveling out, your milk is in your boobs, your skin is out of whack — your body goes through some shit. My husband didn’t flinch. In fact, I remember him making inappropriate comments about my ass — flirty comments — when I bent over to load the dishwasher....
When was the last time you yelled? Last weekend. Who’d you yell out? I yelled at my neighbor for yelling at my kid for yelling [laughs] Okay. Well, what were you doing? My kids, who are eight and nine, and I were playing in the yard. It was a hot day and so I pulled out the sprinkler, water balloons, and a few other toys that we had so we could enjoy the day....
During Dan Levy’s hosting of SNL, a new faux-commercial dropped that posited Zillow as pretty much the same thing as porn, for you know, people who are trying to adult. This is accurate. Even if you’re refinancing your house right now, or doing something similarly unglamorous, the allure of Zillow is universal. Smartly, the sketch ends with the wake-up call of actually having to call a real estate agent. Is that fun!...
Cold Open Since SNL took its winter break, a brand new variant of COVID has emerged and the show addressed Omicron in the Cold Open with a classic press conference from Joe Biden (played by James Austin Johnson). Biden had a simple three-word solution to stop the Omicron variant from running rampant across the country: “Stop seeing Spider-Man.” The President then pointed out that the surge started just a week after No Way Home started dominating at the box office and when a reporter asked him if there was any data behind his theory, Biden noted that “everyone in America has seen Spider-Man like eight times....
According to The Advocate, on May 4, 2021, the Louisiana House met and rejected House Bill 324, which would ban schools from using corporal punishment on their students – like spanking or paddling. The final count was five votes shy of the minimum required to approve the ban, ending at 48-49. The bill was authored by Stephanie Hilferty, hoping it would pass to prohibit corporal punishment in both public elementary and secondary schools....
“What make the red man red?” the Lost Boys ask in the film. “Centuries of prejudice, and genocide!” you might want to scream back at the screen, which would likely confuse and frighten your 3-year-old. So you probably shouldn’t do that. But you should probably do something. Like the Westerns of the time, 1953’s Peter Pan features plenty of Native American caricatures; “savages” who speak in monosyllables and yet oddly revere the white man-child who they call “great white father....
“She wasn’t afraid to make people mad,” said Dana Winters, the Director of Simpler Interactions and Academic Programs at the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at St. Vincent College. But she was also a musician, a mother, a guardian, and a kind soul who helped guide the posthumous legacy of Fred Rogers to one that retains extreme cultural relevance and pop culture supremacy. She did it, frankly, by being herself....
On February 17th, come join Fatherly Podcast host Joshua David Stein at CAMP for a live taping with some of the smartest people working in children’s design. Our panelists include Mark Riegelman, perhaps the most brilliant and bad-ass playground designer currently working, architecture critic and The Design of Childhood author Alexandra Lange, and Ben Kaufman, founder of CAMP, the toy store so cool adults want to hang out (at the in-house Momofuku Milk Bar)....
What is the June Strawberry Moon? According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the Strawberry Moon got its name from exactly what it sounds like – the strawberry season. “This sweet, tangy and nutritious wild food staple was only available for a short time each year,” the site explains. “So, June’s Full Moon naturally came to be known as the Strawberry Moon, a name that was universal to every [Algonquin] tribe.” It’s also a nod to the flowers that pop up in summer, too....
The real Olson is none of the above, in case you were wondering. She’s nice to a fault. “That’s always really funny to me, people who are not self-aware and who are entitled and demanding. I think it’s just the opposite of who I am. I’m way too aware of how people are perceiving me or what I’m doing. So it’s funny to me when people just have zero awareness and feel like they deserve absolutely everything,” says Olson....
But the teenage comedians at Kids ’N Comedy have somehow cracked the code. There are usually less than 10 comedians at one show. Parents and kids sit together around the same tables adults will sit at hours later, watching some of New York City’s more R-rated comedians. Most of these adolescent stand-ups have been doing comedy for years. They’re seasoned pros. They’ve got their timing down and have the confidence of stand-up veterans....
Japanese athlete Kokona Hiraki is an Olympic medalist at only 12 years old, taking home a silver in the women’s park competition. Ahead of her, bringing home to gold was 19-year-old Sakura Yosozumi, also from Japan. But silver is nothing to balk at, especially since that’s not the only feat she conquered. According to Insider, with Kokona’s second-place win, she also took home the title of the youngest Olympic medalist, from any country, in 85 years....
Krispy Kreme has announced its plans to give away free donuts to help support and feed the healthcare staff who are working around the clock. “To share joy among the millions in the medical community, and to show our gratitude for all they are doing, beginning Monday, March 30–National Doctors’ Day–and on every subsequent Monday through National Nurses Week (May 6-12), Krispy Kreme will provide all healthcare workers free dozens of our iconic Original Glazed® Doughnuts,” according to a press release....
“People have difficulty with failure,” says Dr. Laurence Weinzimmer, the Caterpillar Inc. Professor of Strategic Management at Bradley University and co-author of the 2012 book, The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price. “We’re paid to succeed. We’re judged on our successes. We’re promoted on our successes. We’re rewarded for successes, and we’re penalized for failure. It’s a difficult topic.” However difficult, learning how to better face and understand failure is a vital life skill....
“This is a replay of SARS without the happy ending,” he says matter-of-factly. That Quammen is studiously less than stoic in the face of the threat posed by this pandemic is chilling. For the better part of four decades, he’s worked at the edge of the apocalypse, publishing The Chimp and the River about the origin of HIV, Monster of God about animals that eat people, and The Song of the Dodo about extinction....
According to a Redfin study, the average cost of rent nationwide jumped 14 percent in just a year. The same study also gobsmackingly showed that 11 million households, or one in four renters, already spend more than half of their monthly income on rent. While in some cities, rents cratered during the pandemic — New York City is a prime example — management companies and landlords that dropped rates during the early days of the pandemic are bringing those rates back, and they’re often higher than pre-pandemic....
A Camera That Reflects the Moon Hasselblad, the camera brand that went to the moon in 1969 hasn’t changed much — in looks, that is. The Hasselblad 907x 50c has all the rugged efficient look of the old school camera that went on Apollo 11, but it weighs less than half-a-pound, has 50-megapixels, and an insane dynamic range. The images look as good as the camera itself. A Timepiece Built to Climb This gorgeous Montblanc — which is comprised of 1,858 pieces, including two domed globes that turn in opposite directions to complete a full rotation in 24 hours, both surrounded by a scale with the 24 time zones — is a technically proficient watch....
The decision to consider alcohol-based businesses like liquor stores an essential business is actually a public health choice. Alcohol kills through withdrawal, a fact you might have learned from Amy Winehouse’s death. Many hundreds of thousands of Americans could die the same way if alcohol retailers were to suddenly shut down without notice. Some 12.7 percent of Americans struggle with alcoholism. At least 50 percent of those folks will experience withdrawal symptoms — which can start with delirium and end in fatal seizures....
On November 28, the actress released a statement after she was interrupted on a Sunday walk with her son 10-month-old son August for the second week in a row. “To the paparazzi dude who just tried to join me and my son on our walk for the second Sunday in a row you can kindly f–k off,” Mandy wrote on a post she shared to her Instagram Stories. She also referenced her husband and August’s dad, Taylor Goldsmith, and their dog, Jackson, who is battling cancer....
A new analysis of data from last December shows which holiday treats people in individual states are disproportionately searched for on Google. If one assumes that search engine traffic for holiday treats has some relationship with which holiday treats people prefer, it identifies the holiday treat that is disproportionately popular in each state. So while standard Christmas sugar cookies are probably the most popular treat in many states, they don’t appear on this map except for in one state simply because they are so broadly popular....
