The Other F Word (trailer) is a new documentary about punk rock fatherhood. Blog Musical Urbanism argues that it mostly focuses on the materialistic Southern California punk rock scene.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn on Oct 17, 2011 - 38 comments

Yesterday was the third Sunday in June, the officially recognized date of Father's Day in the US and many other countries. Google really, really wanted to remind you of that fact, not only celebrating the day with a special Google Doodle, but also putting reminders on the front page of Google Search and a special "Reminder: Call Dad" note in the chat roster of Gmail Calling. Many people were not happy about it. [more inside]
posted by 2bucksplus on Jun 20, 2011 - 264 comments

Steve Goodman-My Old Man Happy Father's Day.
posted by Daddy-O on Jun 19, 2011 - 22 comments

Lunchbox Doodles: "At the beginning of his first school year – on his first day of kindergarten in fact – my wife was preparing my son Andrew's lunchbox. As I sat sipping my coffee, she handed me a 3 x 5 blank index card and asked me to draw something for his lunchbox." [more inside]
posted by bwg on Jun 4, 2011 - 35 comments

Kid tells his 81 year old Dad that The Twitter is a search engine. [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on May 17, 2011 - 121 comments

Take a shower! (Slave Dad Series) Part 2 MLYT [more inside]
posted by cmoj on Dec 31, 2010 - 32 comments

DAD! GOD! Not FUNNY. **sigh**cross arms**roll eyes**
posted by Countess Elena on Jun 20, 2010 - 94 comments

Project GREAT: General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test
Clocks, Kids, and General Relativity on Mt Rainier

Think your dad was a nerd? A mad genius? Was he a Clark Griswold-esque cheerleader for outdoor family vacations? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
posted by zardoz on May 7, 2009 - 51 comments

Precision Lawn Chair Marching Dads
posted by dios on Dec 5, 2005 - 28 comments

Halloween Hangman (via my dad)
posted by mr_crash_davis on Oct 22, 2005 - 17 comments

Citypop's a stay-at-home dad in New York City. While his medical resident wife grinds out 80 hour weeks, he narrates the hurdles (botched circumcision, apartment fire, roach invasions) of raising a boy in the strange universe of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
posted by zsazsa on Apr 21, 2004 - 17 comments

A sad story about Tim McVeigh's dad. I read this hoping to find some mistake the mass murder's dad made in raising him. Instead, I came away feeling profoundly sad for this man who can't understand why his son grew up to become such a hate-filled devil.
posted by darren on Mar 30, 2001 - 2 comments