Super-Crafty Halloween Contest winners are here!
First of all, let’s agree that the word “winners” is misused here. Because when people are taking the time, effort and historical research to dress their kids up like Hunter S. Thompson and Frida …
Super-Crafty Halloween Costume Contest – entries are here!
Every year, I tell myself that the Super-Crafty Costume Contest couldn’t get any better. And then, on the eve of the contest, someone sends a photo of their 3-year-old dressed as Nux the War Boy from …
Super Crafty Halloween Costume Contest 2015 – enter now!
The Poop parenting blog has been on hiatus for something like 12 years, and both my kids are in their 40s now. Mostly these days I’m writing 4,000 word history articles for the San Francisco Chronicle …
Super-Crafty Halloween Costume Contest – the winners are here!
Before we start, apologies that these winners are being announced so late. I know that historians looking back on this will have no context to the tardiness, but just trust me, it’s freaking late. …
My favorite pro-Giants costume of the 2014 World Series run
This is the time of year that I sit at my desk reading incoming e-mails, with my face frozen in a permanent grin. Since we put out the call for entries last week, I’ve been receiving dozens of …
The Super Crafty Halloween Costume Contest returns!
I haven’t written on The Poop in something like 47 years, I’m pretty sure my own kids have left college and are “finding themselves.” Our original blog banner with the little baby head appears to be …
Thunderdome of Sappy Parenting Commercials … help us pick two finalists!
Here’s how this crazy experiment came about: I was watching TV with my wife and suddenly found myself in a big fat puddle of embarrassing ugly cry, thanks to an Extra Gum commercial about birds and …
Field Trip: 5 Reasons to Visit Legoland
There are a lot of amusement parks out there. Not all of them sell mouse ears in the gift shops. If the general, well, awesomeness of “The Lego Movie” wasn’t enough of a reminder, we’re here to make …