Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Jay from over at Blogging Baby dug up this frightening movie in the making, titled "Father Knows Less," apparently about a guy whose wife leaves him to bumble around with the stepkids. Prediction: it'll bomb. Fathers who can't parent aren't common anymore, and the stereotype is loosing its humor. The real irony, of course, is that Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar in Kramer v Kramer. Then, as now, he played a guy whose wife leaves him, but the film eschews the laughs in favor of making what was then a kind of radical point: men can parent perfectly well, thank you very much. Apparently, Hollywood is backsliding. At least society -- where the rest of us live -- have moved on.

Also: We're closing in on the At-Home Dad Convention, and I really, really need to get my plane tickets. I think it's relatively important that we end up somewhere close to the convention. Golden Nugget, anyone? (Thanks to Dave for the close-by suggestion.) The real question: will you guys really be up for a 7 a.m. breakfast?

(Worth noting: if anything seems screwy with this post, you can blame my decision to test-drive a new browser called Flock that has a blogging thingamajig built in, as well as super duper del.icio.us support, etc. If there's anything problematic about this post -- other than my usual butchering of the language -- let me know.)

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