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Jerry Stahl
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OG Dad #27: Tiny Brandos
Forgive me if I’ve said it before, but now that I’m working dad duty without heroin I can see why I needed it.
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OG DAD #26: The Greedy Fox
Phobic or diligent? You be the judge. All fodder to feed into the Daddy neurosis machine.
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OG Dad #25: In The Interest Of Rectal Security
The great thing about having a two-year-old in the house is you feel your mortality like a happy little gun to your head.
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OG Dad #24: Kiddie Calm
Days when my daughter hates me, I console myself that this may be a sign of her discerning nature.
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OG Dad #23: Bad Moments in Parenting
If you grow up in a tense house, you don’t just get used to tension, you become tension. A tension conductor. Nervousness is like any other household pollutant…
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OG Dad #22: 24-Hour Potty People
But musical child toilets! The problem on the technical level is that none of the Amazon descriptions would say exactly what kind of music we’d be hearing.
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OG Dad #21: The Head Bang, the Hole In The Wall, and the Happy Fart
My daughter likes to bang her head off the floor. It makes a point—an especially guilt-tinged one, given that we had to get rid of our carpets due to a mold infestation, so now there’s no cushion between baby cranium…
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OG DAD #20: ONE YEAR BIRTHDAY EDITION
Family Fun With Dora The Explorer And Her Troubling Butt-Button
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OG DAD #19: The Scream
It’s no secret, the amount of crying you have to listen to when you have a baby is astronomical. Before this, my exposure to crying females was pretty much limited to those I was in a relationship with
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OG DAD #18: When Good Babies Go Bad
My daughter got her first bill today. $25, a cancellation fee for blowing off an appointment with a Dr. Papoolian.
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OG DAD #17: These Things Happen
Even now, transcribing the chunk of New Dad convo from my notebook to my computer, I feel like drilling a hole in my skull and pumping Purell inside.
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OG DAD #16: ZERO DARK DIRTY DIAPER
I read in The New York Times about feces transplants—quite possibly the future of post-antibiotic intestinal medicine—and the future of my entire family suddenly seemed rosy.