I don't know. I think that this anti-Tebow ad - you know, countering the pro-life advertisement featuring star quarterback Tim Tebow and his abortion-eschewing mom that ran during the Superbowl - is kind of hard on basement-dwelling, hygiene-challenged slackers, don't you?
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How absolutely insane would it be to discover your name translates to something completely unacceptable to say in another language?
And when I say insane, I mean how crazy it must be to realize that your name is basically smut in Arabic, yet you grew up hearing it your entire life without a clue.
By the way, do you know how hard it was to write that first paragraph without using the phrase 'How much would it suck to discover your name...'? It was very difficult to not say 'suck'.
And why would I even care if I use that phrase? You'll see.
The mom who created these gets five stars and two thumbs up from my kid, who now will not stop demanding that we look at these photos AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and PLEASE MOMMY CAN WE MAAAAKE THEM?!?!:
When I read Bryan Young's article about the conflicted feelings he has around the upcoming Star Wars collector toys coming out at the end of this month, I understood exactly what he was talking about.
The conflict is not about the toys per se -they are cool little toys that Star Wars fans will be happy to add to their collections (we all have our nerd habits so cut me some slack) - but about how these toys are being released to the public: as a toy in a McDonald's Happy Meals.
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I don't know if you already know the site, Unhappy Hipsters - it may be that I am the last person on the planet to catch on to this - but either way, I have to tell you, it spoke to me. Not least because it takes on something with which I have a deeply complicated relationship: the idea of the hipster parent.
I don't know about you, but I think that Groundhog Day is a little exploitative. I mean, did the groundhogs ask to be weather forecasters? Do they get paid? Are there benefits? I'm sure they'd appreciate a good dental plan. This shit is oppressive, people. Where's PETA on the issues that really matter? There's an opportunity here for a really great campaign featuring a naked, chained woman crawling out of a hole, isn't there?
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For when you're working that hands-free breast pump, holding a plate of nachos and reading a story to your toddler...
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So, you know how we all thought that we were being so original an hour or so ago, making all those feminine hygiene jokes on Twitter about the newly unveiled iPad?
We were too late:
A few years back I read that multi-tasking was a myth. Apparently people just can't get things done simultaneously; quality is sacrificed for quantity, things thought to be done faster are not, blah blah blah, so *poof*, multi-tasking doesn't really work as well as we'd like to think it does.
Let's not think too hard about what that means for parenting.
Anyhow, I try to multi-task. I try to sort laundry while on the phone making appointments, I try to upload photos for grandparents while answering emails, I try to do the food prep while in the shower (don't judge me, Kramer did it first.) And when I was breastfeeding and pumping, I tried to pump and do pretty much anything that would offset the crippling boredom of sitting around with machinery attached to my boob.
Too bad I didn't have this:
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So while we're all talking about Angelina and Brad (is it true? are they really done? why do I care so much?), let's talk about this: why is USWeekly worried about their kid wearing pants? So Shiloh wears pants: SO?
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that they noticed she often wears pants? Are they really that hard up for celebrity news?
Anyway. They had an expert - AN EXPERT - weigh in on the earth-shattering, nail-biting question of 'Do Brad & Angelina Want To Turn Shiloh Into A Boy?'
