Baby kicking up a storm! (But not ours)
So last night I felt our baby kick for the first time and it was wild!
Although the baby has been kicking my wife for a couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to feel it until now… so it’s really exciting and surreal. I’m told it can be pretty uncomfortable for my wife (of course) but she also thinks it’s exciting.
This week, I’m going to kick things off (no pun intended) with some dad sites and blogs. I was very surprised at the amount of resources that were out there, but wasn’t surprised by how fragmented they were.
However, many of these sites did a great job aggregating links and resources too, so please check out their blogrolls..
As I find new resources, I’ll share them with you.. but for now, here’s what I found:
Dad Blogs & Sites
Pregancy.com – This is a great site for moms and dads. We’re able to track the baby week by week, which is very cool. Our baby is 22 weeks, so she’s the size of a spaghetti squash. My Italian mother-on-law is not crazy about comparing the baby to food, but to each his own! Read more »
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adadsheart.blogspot.com,
BrandNewDad.com,
Brooklyn Baby Daddy,
daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com,
daddyforever.com,
daddytypes.com,
family,
kids,
New Dad NYC,
NYC DADS,
nycdadsgroup.com,
nymetroparents.com,
Pregnancy.com,
rebeldad.com,
Stay at Home Dad
Old American Can Factory
This weekend Rooftop has two great short film programs at the historic Old American Can Factory. Built as a canning factory in 1886 on the Gowanus Canal, it was redeveloped in 2003 as an industrial haven for a curated community of more than 200 people working in the creative industries, including us!
On Friday, they’ll be screening “Industriance,” a striking program of short films where self-constructing buildings battle for fidelity, makers of mold-o-form plastic deer muddle their love, and Werner Herzog plays a discarded plastic bag desperately seeking the meaning of existence. On Saturday, they’re presenting a collection of films from the Umami Festival, whose goal is to use art to increase awareness of the power food has to influence and shape both diners and cooks. Read more »
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Food and Art Festival,
Industriance,
Japanese,
Old American Can Factory,
Rooftop,
Umami,
Werner Herzog
Yellowfever and Woven Bones
Wednesday, June 30
Beth Orton
Presented by Battery Park City Authority
7pm
Rockefeller Park, River Terrace & Warren Street.
English singer/songwriter Beth Orton brilliantly combines the passionate
beauty of acoustic folk with the electronic beats of trip-hop, creating a
fresh, distinct fusion of roots and rhythm. Her stunning debut Trailer Park
was followed by Central Reservation, Daybreaker and Comfort of Strangers.
More at http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/events/eventDetail.php?eventID=3358.
Friday, July 2
YellowFever and Woven Bones
Seaport Music
6pm
South Street Seaport, Pier 17
The Seaport kicks off their summer music series by digging deep into the
heart of Texas with two of Austin’s most exciting new bands. This night goes
straight to the heart of all that is young and dirty, fuzzed up and
blues-punked, with a golden smattering of surf.
More at http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/events/eventDetail.php?eventID=3459.
For the upcoming River To River Festival schedule, visit
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com
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Battery Park City Authority,
Beth Orton,
rockefeller park,
Seaport Music,
YellowFever and Woven Bones
Halloween Baby!
Welcome to NewBee Daddy, a column about being a new dad in Manhattan.
Technically I’m a “soon-to-be-dad”. My wife and I are expecting our first child this Halloween (it’s a girl!), and we live in Manhattan on the Upper West Side. Collectively, we’ve lived in the city for almost 20 years.
There are lots of resources on the net for Mom’s like Mommy blogs and Mommy social networks, such as Cafe Mom (owned by Billy from Melrose Place). But if you try searching for Dad resources you really won’t find as much.
We deal with lots of issues too! And now, more than ever, you see many more stay-at-home dads.
My goal is to share my new daddy experiences (and local tips) in New York City a couple of times a month in hopes that I can help some dad out there who’s going through the same thing. Read more »
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Cafe Mom,
Dad,
kids,
New Dad,
Pregancy,
Stay at Home Dad
Me
Every New Yorker, at one time or another, has stood in a ridiculous line for something, be it for concert tickets, taking a tourist friend to the Empire State Building or wating for a spinach-artichoke slice of pizza at Artichoke on East 14th. Today, I stood on the most ridiculous line of all: the line for the just-released iPhone 4 at the Apple Store in Chelsea.
I didn’t plan to do this. But last night, around 11:30 pm, I discovered my beloved iPhone 3G had its screen bashed in. Luckily for me, Apple’s day for the iPhone 4 rollout was just hours away.
Now, knowing the general insanity of New Yorkers when it comes to obtaining the next new hot gadget, and seeing the news reports of people camping out, I knew I had to get there early. I figured 4:00am, 3 hours before the store opened, would get me a decent spot in line.
I arrived to find people laying on blankets on the sidewalk. Still, it didn’t look so bad. The guys around me and I established a friendly rapport. Looking ahead, I figured the most I’d wait after the doors opened was about two hours.
But then the “reservations” started arriving. People smart enough to sign up on Apple’s website to wait in a shorter, swifter line. One of the staff working the crowd assured us that both the reservations line and ours would feed into the store simultaneously. Instead, 30 of them went in for every 5 of us. Every half hour or so. I felt like a snail riding a two legged turtle. (I think that’s a Dan Rather quote)
As the sun came up and the meat delivery trucks passing by became outnumbered by pedestrians headed to work, it became unbearably muggy and hot. The cheerful staff handed out bottles of smart water. I couldn’t tell if it was dehydration or sleep deprivation, but I was slowly losing my mind. I sat on the ground and pretended to make a motave cocktail with a napkin and my water bottle. I dreamed of firebombing a passing woman who told us that we should line up like this for something important like voting, or something like that. I felt like an exhibit at the zoo, with everybody snapping camera phone pictures of us in line and videotaping us for either tv or some strange line fetish porn. I called my office to take a vacation day. Read more »
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apple store,
Chelsea,
iPhone 4,
long lines
300 New York
From our tip line…
“Kids Bowl Free & Adults Breath Easier”
Every Day This Summer at 300 New York! – Just Sign Up for 300 Kids Club Card
Upscale Bowling Entertainment Center to Help Prevent Summertime Boredom with Fun, Healthy Activity for the Kids
Who: 300 New York. General Manager Nick Scaccio
What: All summer long, 300 Kids Club Card members (12 & under) get one free game and shoe rental (Sun-Fri before 4pm). Card can be used once a day thru Labor Day.
When: Now till September 7th, 2010
Where: 300 New York
Located at Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex.
Pier 60/23rd & West Side Hwy. New York, NY 10011
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300 West,
Bowling,
Chelsea Piers,
Manhattan,
New York City
Katy Perry
“Greetings loved ones, let’s take a journey,” Snoop Dogg says as he introduces Katy Perry’s summer anthem California Gurls. Well, having spent the past several weeks on the west coast, I can certainly attest that California Gurls are indeed hot enough to melt your popsicle… I was fortunate enough to be hanging out in Los Angeles during their Pride Celebration, and it was by far the most interesting pride experience I’ve ever had.
Read more »
Tags:
California Gurls,
Cheesecake Factory,
Dating,
John 98%,
Katy Perry,
Los Angeles,
Pride,
Red O,
The Paulinator,
West Hollywood
Me.
This past weekend I sipped strong alcoholic drinks out of teacups in a speakeasy hidden behind a toy shop in the Lower East Side. I also enjoyed a bucket of beer while soaking up the summer sun in the middle of a traffic circle on the Upper West. I walked from my friend’s apartment on 90th Street and Columbus to my apartment at 32nd Street and 2nd, and could tell I was getting close to my neighborhood once every other storefront was a bar or a sushi place. On Father’s Day, I sat with my Dad in the right field seats of Yankee Stadium, predicting Mark Teixeira’s grand slam to beat the New York Mets just moments before it happened.
What’s my point? That I’m a possible alcoholic, probable Murray Hill d-bag who very likely has the ability to predict the future? No. Technically, I live in Kips Bay.
My point is, I live in New York, where random interesting things happen whenever you open your eyes, and I do a lot of things here, which means if you read my articles, you may be inspired to do a lot of things too. I’ve been living here for 10 years, through good times and bad, and have experienced much of the coolness and crap that this city has to offer. I rant and rave a lot. Come experience it with me. Like a humble honeybee, I will buzz around Manhattan isle, pollinating my flower-like readers with allergy-causing observations. Okay, the metaphor doesn’t quite work. And how often do you see a bee in New York? But hey, it’s the name of this blog.
You will not be disappointed. Unless you’re looking for naked pictures of Jamie-Lynn Sigler. I’m keeping those to myself.
Tags:
New York City,
speakeasys,
things to do,
Yankees
Great Lawn, Central Park
A free event, on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, more than 10,000 yoga-lovers will gather on Central Park’s Great Lawn. With such a high attendance, this event could become the largest event of its kind in yoga’s history.
The class, starting at 6 PM, will be taught by Elena Bower, who has trained celebrities like Naomi Watts and Christy Turlington. Free yoga mats, courtesy of JetBlue, will be given to all attendees. Also, the event will feature performances by Buddy Wakefield Wah!, O’Konsi Rhythms and others.
The event is open to all ages and skills level. But, unfortunately, to participate you need to register in advance for your chance to win your spot.
Visit the registration page to do so; drawings will be held at random.
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Centra Park,
Fitness,
Great Lawn,
wellness,
Yoga
Looks like McNally Jackson’s is the place to be this week – good books, good talk, and a good (and somewhat healthy) dose of free nostalgia and fear, with I Love You Beth Cooper author Larry Doyle and Sloane Crosly, “the most popular publicist in New York,” wielding their respective needles.
This Wednesday, Doyle reminds us just how tough high school can be, especially if you’re the son of a villainous mastermind…who’s also an alien…with blue skin…and a brain that’s busting the seams of his skull. There’s no use for Jim, our tormented teen alien in Go, Mutants!, to even attempt to blend in with his classmates. But in a world of mad scientists (Everyone seems to have that wha-ha-haaaa! crazy laugh), robots, and mutants, Jim will find that the theater of high school is the least of his problems: He just might have to save his world from destruction. Doyle’s alien-saves-the-day tale wouldn’t be complete without its endless stream of B-movie subplots. So, after this reading, hunker down with the book, and get ready to name that flick!
Next Monday, Crosley follows up her critically acclaimed I Was Told There’d Be Cake with a reading of How Did You Get This Number, nine essays about the illusions of young adulthood in all their ugly glory. In Show Me on the Doll, Crosley remembers the eve of her 30th birthday, when she heads to Lisbon with no map or language skills. And being one of us many non-native New Yorkers, Crosley must tell us how she ended up here and recount her crappy roommate situation in Take a Stab at It. These essays show Crosley at her most vulnerable and most impressionable. In a sneak peek of If You Sprinkle, Crosly drudges up all sorts of cruel awfulness in the name of teen fun:
The sticker, meant to double as a “zit,” was part of a board game called Girl Talk, an early-’90s version of truth-or-dare, designed to sanction prepubescent cruelty via laminated cardboard. Accompanying the board itself were zits peeled from an adhesive sheet and doled out to those who refused to participate in dares. Imagine the karmic opposite of candy dots. Girl Talk was the main reason I wound up enrolling in a college without a Greek system.
Girl Talk really was a good time!
Larry Doyle reads Go, Mutants! at McNally Jackson Bookstore (52 Prince Street), Wednesday, June 23rd at 7 p.m. FREE
Sloane Crosley reads How Did You Get This Number at McNally Jackson Bookstore (52 Prince Street), Monday, June 28rd at 7 p.m. FREE
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B-Movies,
girl talk,
Larry Doyle,
Sloane Crosley
