Two strange things happened on our annual Christmas Disneyland trip. First, Adrian just seemed to get it. We went to Disneyland in October, when Adrian was around seventeen months old, and he liked to look at things and seemed to get excited about some of the rides. But this time, at nineteen months old, he…
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Backpacking Dad Looks for Christmas in New York
When the fourth drag queen stepped up to the microphone and began lip-syncing a stand-up comedy routine I was sure the evening had gone from awesome to fabulous. But perhaps I ought to begin at the beginning. Peter Shankman, of shankman.com and Help A Reporter Out fame, and Hot Blogger Calendar 2009 infamy, sent me…
Christmas Just Ain’t Christmas Without Visiting Mall Santa: Continuing the Big Lie
We told Erin we were going to see Santa at the mall today. “Is it the real Santa, or a pretend Santa?” she asked us. I was still too tired, it being sometime before noon, to muster the energy to commit to a course of fakery and deception that I’d have to remain committed to…