jerry stahl
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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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The Rumpus Interview with Jerry Stahl
Writer and Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl sits down for a candid chat about memoir, novels, shame, parenthood, being pigeonholed, and managing “the neat trick of being an outsider in all genres.”
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Jerry Stahl & Marc Maron in one room!
Los Angeles! Comes see Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl and Marc Maron at The Last Bookstore this Friday, November 8th at 7:30 PM. Jerry will be reading from his latest book, Happy Mutant Baby Pills and Marc will be reading from…
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An Excellent Book—and Such Endorsements!
To promote his new book Happy Mutant Baby Pills, OG Dad author Jerry Stahl rode around with writer/director/producer Larry Charles, trying to dig up endorsements from those famous friends. The result is probably the only book trailer to be posted on…
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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 #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.
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OG DAD #15: TOT BITES DOG
So I’m standing in front of the fridge, door open, wondering more-or-less what happened to my life, when I suddenly remember I have an eight month old baby in my arms.
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OG DAD #14: BACKOPALYPSE NOW
Before what happened happened at Sandy Hook Elementary, I was going to write about back pain. Specifically “boomer back”—dark secret of infant–spawning post-50 boomerdom—a malady specific to “older parents”
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OG DAD #13: My Baby Does The Hanky-Panky
As if the recent presidential campaign was not disturbing enough, in the middle of it, my five month old morphed into Donald Trump.