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When I watched this video about the Japanese New Year's tradition where devils called Namahage come to town en masse to terrorize and threaten all the lazy and disobedient children at night, I wondered how much they would charge for a personal visit?
But then I thought if I had seen what happens in the first few minutes of this video when I was a kid, I would have crapped my pants. Repeatedly. And probably never left my house at night again until I was thirty.
A study in the Journal of Family Issues concluded that the more time both members of a married couple spent doing chores, the more often they had sex.
I like to call it recognition for efforts well done.
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Holy crap, we're headed into the final stretch of 2009. How did that happen?
Anyway, what this means is... this week is all about one thing: 2009 RETROSPECTIVES FOR THE WIN!
Today I'm talking about movies. Movies I rarely get to see in the optimal format -- the big screen -- because no one will babysit my kid. Or more accurately, I can't afford to pay someone competent to watch my kid AND buy tickets to see a movie at the same time. The Red Cross will only pay so much for my blood yo and competent is the key word in that last sentence because I'm "bad" but not that "bad".
Remember that super-awesometastic weaponized turbo-stroller that we featured the other day? That was a little impractical. I mean, you're not really going to take that kind of thing to the playground, unless you live in a post-apocalyptic dystopia ruled by evil aliens wherein the only playgrounds are littered with grenades and populated by mini-robot-bullies who, let's face it, don't respond to polite reminders to be gentle with their weak human playmates. In that case, sure, you need a stroller with machine-gun capacity. But otherwise, I think that you could make do with this one:
