Greetings to all of you who found this wonderful place via my Slate piece on the Los Angeles Dodgers. For novitiates, this is basically a website where I chronicle my adventures with my son Elijah, who a fellow writer once called "a precocious three-year-old with an unstoppable imagination." You'll see what that means if you scroll down the page or read my archives, or both.

This is also a place where I talk excessively about my book Alternadad, a memoir on the same topic, which will be published by Pantheon in January 2007. You can preorder it here. Meanwhile, Alternadad has its own Myspace page! Sign up and be part of the revolution of, um, parents who aren't lame.

So some Elijah updates. As advertised in the Slate piece, I did take Elijah to Dodger Stadium last night, though he made me leave after seven innings, thus forcing me to miss a go-ahead homerun, a behemoth reliever getting tossed by a trigger-happy umpire, a tying triple and throwing error, and a game-winning single by Kenny Lofton. Elijah just lost patience. If only those Richard Scarry books that I brought to distract him were a little longer...

Meanwhile, Elijah has invented two new superheroes in the last week. The first is Remote Control Man, who has buttons all over his body and can turn you invisible or make you very cold. Plus he has really long arms, "to reach bad guys." The second is Mr. Dang, whose power, according to Elijah, is that he "doesn't eat healthy food." Seems like more of an anti-hero to me, along the lines of Ghost Rider, but, hey, it's the kid's world. I just blog in it.

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