Late-Night Grab Bag

Greg over at Daddy Types catches a great opportunity for you about-to-become-SAHDs: Queer Eye is looking for new dads to make over. You gotta be expecting this spring and live in the NYC. Looks like the casting call happened a couple of days ago, but I'm curious to see the show. Never has chaos reigned like it did in the low-sleep period of new parenthood. And I don't think there's a damn thing Carson could have done about it.

MSN is apparently running monthly columns from an at-home dad. I noted the last one in December. The latest one is a stirring defense of the at-home dad, though, truth be told, I don't think that we actually need that much of a defense. I can't think of anyone I've met who assumed for a moment that the job isn't demanding.

Jeff of No, Ma'am and the Delaware At-Home Dad Association floated an interesting proposal by me: how about a *regional* at-home dad group? A group of that sort could pool its media savvy, offer mini-conventions and getaways to local dads, create a clearinghouse of experienced advice-dishing dads or organize multi-group outings (imagine a trip to the Philly Zoo, Jeff said, with dozens of SAHDS from four states touring the place). Of course, getting dads together -- even locally -- can be a neat trick, but there's something appealing about seeing connections made between different local groups. Jeff is obviously thinking mid-Atlantic, but I could see this working just as well to tie the active groups in the midwest, California, etc. What do you all think? Interesting? Viable?