Cooking With the BUMD, Day 14: In the Kitchen with Dad

It is a little-known fact that the entire decline and fall of the Roman Empire can be traced back to the their failure to teach their kids to cook.

OCD is a Defense Mechanism, or, Only the Paranoid Survive

“Did you turn the oven off?” is a cliché, like any other dime-a-dozen cliché… Until the first time you come home and realize that you have, in fact, left the oven on.

Of Fathers and Sons

I’m sure I’m doing OK as a dad, because I check in with the kids periodically. “Kid,” I ask them each, “are you having a good childhood?”

Rosco P. Coltrane’s Last Case Taken Over by Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer drives a 1969 Dodge Charger named The Jay Edgar.

New Lows in Demonology

Not long ago, it was discovered that even Big Ugly Man Dolls have birthdays. Now, I’m at what I call the “Cards and Laughter” age, which is when someone cards you buying booze and you burst into laughter. I’m not complaining, but I’ve noticed I don’t get carded when I have the kids with me. […]