\u2022 I recently learned that I have “Cool Dad Syndrome.”\u00a0 From what I read, it can’t be cured.\u00a0 Sorry, kids.\u00a0 (But that is just what a Cool Dad would say.\u00a0 Sorry again, kids.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is shaped like a pinwheel.\u00a0 It rotates once every 225 million years or so.\u00a0 This means it has made about 60 revolutions in the lifetime of the universe.\u00a0 Bottom line: do not buy a Milky Way pinwheel to entertain a bored child.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Speaking of celestial bodies, I am about to complete my 60th revolution around the Sun.\u00a0 This is because I have successfully avoided collisions with meteors and asteroids.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Things I no longer do, some by choice, others by necessity or circumstance:\u00a0 Play catch. Read Maureen Dowd.\u00a0 Watch MSNBC.\u00a0 Drink orange juice.\u00a0 Make tuna-noodle casserole.\u00a0 Work in a factory.\u00a0 Walk on the roof.\u00a0 Play the guitar.\u00a0 Use semicolons.<\/p>\n
\u2022 America seems to love its entrepreneurs, especially the hipster entrepreneurs, those who create new apps and sleek gadgets and objects of art and\/or convenience out of recycled coffee stirrers and yesterday’s tomatoes.\u00a0 We hand you our money if you widen our eyes.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In my parents’ house, there were such things as a 50-year-old working refrigerator, 30-year-old dial telephones, and a 1962 aqua tabletop radio<\/a> that my mother listened to until she moved away in 2007.\u00a0 So when I bought my first film camera, I figured it would last 10 or 15 years.\u00a0 It didn’t.\u00a0 Nor did the next one.\u00a0 Nor did the one after that.\u00a0 Nor did the digital camera that replaced it.\u00a0 Nor will the one I just bought<\/a> to improve on the first.\u00a0 After all this time, I still have not come to terms with the two-year lifespan (or less!) of present-day “consumer electronics.”\u00a0 A raspy voice in the recesses of my brain tells me that every device I buy should be a sturdy Bell telephone<\/a> — something without a version number in its name.\u00a0 I can safely say that my children will never share my sense of the (possible) durability of things.<\/p>\n \u2022 This thought is intentionally left blank.<\/p>\n \u2022 My next book will be titled, “The Place of Imagination and Yearning.”\u00a0 So, what do you think it should be about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 I recently learned that I have “Cool Dad Syndrome.”\u00a0 From what I read, it can’t be cured.\u00a0 Sorry, kids.\u00a0 (But that is just what a Cool Dad would say.\u00a0 Sorry again, kids.) \u2022 Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is … Continue reading
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