Comments on: Alternadad http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:50:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Baby Got Books » This and That http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-41894 Baby Got Books » This and That Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:31:26 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-41894 [...] The paperback cover of Neal Pollack’s Alternadad is a huge - HUGE - improvement over that pierced-lip rubber ducky hard cover. The paperback will look like this: [...] [...] The paperback cover of Neal Pollack’s Alternadad is a huge – HUGE – improvement over that pierced-lip rubber ducky hard cover. The paperback will look like this: [...]

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20883 DJ Cayenne Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:36:14 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20883 Wow, I never thought that I'd sell anyone on this book with this review, much less Flava. Flav: my contra pick, Radiohead. Wow, I never thought that I’d sell anyone on this book with this review, much less Flava.

Flav: my contra pick, Radiohead.

]]> By: flavawheel http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20827 flavawheel Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:44:55 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20827 Hmmm... Maybe I WILL read this after all. I am adrift in a sea of smug, self-absorbed alt-dads out here in San Fran, which makes this a tough sell, and I was rolling my eyes about the ironic t-shirt bit -- SO typical. But the same time, he TOLD us he quit wearing them because no one noticed, which is actually kind of self-deprecating, so maybe he's all right. And while I disagree with the Clash comment as well -- crazy talk -- I think everyone has a least one music opinion that runs contra to the common line (for instance, I still don't understand what the big deal was about the Pixies, they were pretty good and all, but...), so I can't really fault him there, either. So maybe I'll give it a read. Nice reviewin' there, Cayenne. Hmmm… Maybe I WILL read this after all. I am adrift in a sea of smug, self-absorbed alt-dads out here in San Fran, which makes this a tough sell, and I was rolling my eyes about the ironic t-shirt bit — SO typical.

But the same time, he TOLD us he quit wearing them because no one noticed, which is actually kind of self-deprecating, so maybe he’s all right. And while I disagree with the Clash comment as well — crazy talk — I think everyone has a least one music opinion that runs contra to the common line (for instance, I still don’t understand what the big deal was about the Pixies, they were pretty good and all, but…), so I can’t really fault him there, either.

So maybe I’ll give it a read. Nice reviewin’ there, Cayenne.

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20822 DJ Cayenne Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:18:50 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20822 Frank: I'll burn you a copy of a bootleg of this book - oh, wait.... Frank: I’ll burn you a copy of a bootleg of this book – oh, wait….

]]> By: Frank http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20820 Frank Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:02:51 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20820 Nice review, my man. I've been satisfied, to this point, with reading reviews and commentary on this book without actually, you know, reading the book, but on the strength and passion of your thoughts, I may have to pony up. That is, if I can get past that moronic Clash comment. I'll just add that I took my oldest to JazzFest when he was a toddler, and while it wasn't my best-ever JazzFest experience, he danced around, ate a lot, napped during a few sets and had a big time. Nice review, my man. I’ve been satisfied, to this point, with reading reviews and commentary on this book without actually, you know, reading the book, but on the strength and passion of your thoughts, I may have to pony up. That is, if I can get past that moronic Clash comment. I’ll just add that I took my oldest to JazzFest when he was a toddler, and while it wasn’t my best-ever JazzFest experience, he danced around, ate a lot, napped during a few sets and had a big time.

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20815 DJ Cayenne Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:08:59 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20815 They seem like such nice people. Just another example of Pollack missing the boat. They seem like such nice people. Just another example of Pollack missing the boat.

]]> By: Dr J http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20812 Dr J Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:51:56 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20812 I can't even imagine that academics and environmental scientists could be smug, can you? I can’t even imagine that academics and environmental scientists could be smug, can you?

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20809 DJ Cayenne Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:43:57 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20809 Dr J: Yeah, he may be off the mark in a few places. For one, he complained that it was "hot" at the ACL Fest. You're a former Austin man, was Hyde Park full of unsavory academics and environmental scientists being all smug? Dr J: Yeah, he may be off the mark in a few places. For one, he complained that it was “hot” at the ACL Fest. You’re a former Austin man, was Hyde Park full of unsavory academics and environmental scientists being all smug?

]]> By: Dr J http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/comment-page-1/#comment-20793 Dr J Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:56:08 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2007/04/12/alternadad/#comment-20793 Point of order: My kids have had a good time in two separate visits to the Austin City Limits Festival (albeit in small doses). The Austin Kiddie Limits tent is always a good time. Point of order: My kids have had a good time in two separate visits to the Austin City Limits Festival (albeit in small doses). The Austin Kiddie Limits tent is always a good time.

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