RebelDad

Posted on 03. Nov, 2005 by Brian Reid in General

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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