August 2007 Archives

A summary of my epic Fox News battle with Johnny Rotten is now up on YouTube. Relevant clips are at the beginning and around the seven-minute mark. Please enjoy.

I was on Fox's Red Eye show on Thursday night. There should be a YouTube clip of it available soon. Meanwhile, here's a split-screen of me and Johnny Rotten. You decide who's more punk rock. Don't actually answer that.

I've been hearing from some of you who are upset that I'm not really posting here right now. Well, people, I have to do three posts a week at parents.com, three at epicurious.com, and as many Ask Alternadad posts as I can muster at Offsprung. I'm parent-writinged out, and I don't really feel like filling this space with my thoughts on politics, sports and pop culture right now. So all the writing you knew and loved here before is still around, just dispered to the winds. I hope you stay with me.

So with that in mind, I'd like to announced that my Epicurious blog has begun. There's just one entry thus far, but there will be, by law, three a week. The Epicurious site has just received a complete redesign, so I recommend checking it out. Read and leave hungry.

Meanwhile, I continue to cover the important parenting issues of the day, such as swordfighting and taking the dog into the bathroom with you, at my Parents.com blog. And if you have any pressing questions, please don't miss Ask Alternadad on Offsprung. Email me questions, please.

Also, I'm appearing at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 16, along with Amy Sohn and Ayun Halladay. Believe it or not, we'll be talking about parenting! What else is there, after all?

I hope everyone is riding out the end of the summer in good health. If you're not a Dodger fan, consider yourself fortunate. If you are, I hope you'll joing me in signing the Fire Grady Little petition as soon as I can find one.

My wacky neighbor visits again, Elijah gets worried about urban living, and I play Animal Battle, all over at Parents.com.

Meanwhile, on Offsprung, I advise young parents about, separately, drinking and rock-n-roll. My advice is tops. Trust me.

The other day, while I was on hold, the waiting entertainment was Dr. Laura. A woman wrote in saying that her husband was complaining that their four-year-old daughter liked to rub stuff on her privates. Dr. Laura's immediate response: "Do you have any reason to believe your husband is molesting your daughter?" My first instinct, on the other hand, would have been to refer the mother to The Honeysuckle Shop for her own needs. Flea knows all, I'd tell her.

And that's one of many reasons why I'm not Dr. Laura.