MetaFilter posts tagged with family

TSA agents took my son

cgs — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:59:45 -0800

Woman tries to go through metal detector at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson aiport with her infant son, only to have his pacifier set off the alarm. TSA did the only rational thing and took the woman's son

Without using the words “man” or “good,” can you please define what it means to be a good man?

Non Prosequitur — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:36:10 -0800

War Dances: “I wanted to call my father and tell him that a white man thought my brain was beautiful”. Sherman Alexie doing his thing in The New Yorker, excerpted from his upcoming book (early review; interview 1, 2.)

Oldest Family Run Business

somnambulist — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:47:03 -0800

So how long have you been running your business? The Houshi Onsen in Komatsu, Japan. About a 2.5 hour train ride north from Kyoto is the Houshi Onsen complex was founded in 718. The legend states that the god of Mount Hakusan visited a Buddhist priest and told him to uncover an underground hot spring in a nearby village. He found the hot spring and asked his disciple, a woodcutter’s son named Gengoro Sasakiri, to build and operate a spa on the site. His family has run a hotel in Komatsu ever since. The structure houses 450 people in 100 rooms. For generations, Houshi proprietors have borne the name Zengoro Houshi. The current proprietor is the 46th Zengoro!

Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004

mathowie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:03:19 -0800

Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004 MeFi's own dziga takes family movies from 1974, revisits the locations 30 years later with the same people doing the same things. Amazing. [via mefi projects]

He works odd jobs just to make ends meet

saturnine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:37:54 -0800

"The 2000 census found that nearly 23 percent of families living in Letcher County, KY, fell below the poverty line. The median household income in most counties is at or below $25,000, with individuals making on average $12,000 a year." The White Family by Carl Kiilsgaard You can find more of the White family (without commentary) on the photographer's own website.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:04:50 -0800

A Gay Soldier's Husband — In the backdrop of the conservative activist Supreme Court's recent decision against hearing a challenge to the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, one gay American relates the difficulties he faces having a partner on active duty in Iraq. In Iraq itself, death squads continue to murder gay and lesbian Iraqis, while American occupying forces look the other way.

Defining passion, as a mother

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:38:48 -0800

"Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband."

Awkward Family Photos

WinnipegDragon — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:30:04 -0800

Everyone has been in bad family photos, but sometimes a photo goes beyond bad and becomes awkward.

The Youngest Parents

chunking express — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:00:53 -0800

The Youngest Parents by Jocelyn Lee. The set of photographs that comprise The Youngest Parents is safe for work. Some other parts of the site contain some nakedness.

Help

hadjiboy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:07:19 -0800

A photo-essay of life in a Cambodian Aids Ward. [images are distressing] (via)

Hope Generator

yiftach — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:53:36 -0800

Generations of Hope is a non-profit set up to bring kids out of foster care and into extended families with grandparents. The community of Hope Meadows was repurposed from housing on a closed Air Force base in Illinois. (The NYT article erroneously refers to the community by the non-profit's name. No matter. The story is still inspirational.) As an adoptive dad (about to become a biological dad for the first time) with parents in town for my kids to enjoy and vice versa (not to mention plenty of friends with parents on the other side of the country or the world who don't have it so good), I'm thrilled to see organized support, however small, for this idea. Intergenerational childrearing has countless benefits for all involved, and I can only hope that the efforts to replicate the success of Hope Meadows are successful.

Big Bad Wolves Need Not Apply

5MeoCMP — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:07:01 -0800

The first little pig built his house out of straw [previously]. The second little pig built his house out of sticks. The third little pig built his house out of bricks; but the relatively unknown fourth little pig built several structures of all sizes out of mud (and straw), and he wasn't a hippy. Cob building is relatively simple, inexpensive, sturdy and beautiful. It allows you to create free-form structures, it doesn't require a lot of knowledge and, best of all, everyone (including the kids) can get involved. The canonical resource for cob building is probably The Cob Builders Handbook, available directly from the author, or via Amazon if you're so inclined.

Lost Souls

chuckdarwin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:24:37 -0800

According to a new report, children in Sweden are becoming increasingly concerned by their parents' internet habits. "This summer she has been sitting up all day and all night and she forgets what's important to me. And when she's not at the computer she's like a lost soul. She just looks straight ahead and says nothing. I'm not doing so well." Dr Jerald Block from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland is pushing for internet addiction (and its three subtypes: excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations and e-mail/text messaging) to be included as a common disorder in the next update of the DSM (DSM-V). "The relationship is with the computer. It becomes a significant other to them. They exhaust emotions that they could experience in the real world on the computer... It's much more acceptable for kids to talk about game use, whereas adults keep it a secret. Rather than having sex, or arguing with their wife or husband, or feeding their children, these adults are playing games..."

Kiki and Bubu

homunculus — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:26 -0800

Kiki and Bubu! Austrian art collective monochrom presents the adventures of two sock puppets. Part One: Kiki and Bubu and The Shift. "Bubu wants to know why his dad is busy all the time. And Kiki explains him why... because of the neoliberal shift." Part Two: Kiki and Bubu and The Privilege. "Bubu ran into a bunch of liberals and they gave him a book. They said if he doesn't read it, they're going to beat him up. But Bubu can't read! And so Kiki helps..." [Via BB]

For The Bible Tells Me So

Ira.metafilter — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:42:13 -0800

For The Bible Tells Me So. (documentary, Google Video. Trailer.)

web 2.0 Genealogy

dash_slot- — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:12:20 -0800

Kindo - Web 2.0 Genealogy

Loser gets creamed

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:35:03 -0800

The Belgian version of Russian roulette.

Strange reunion

Artw — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:45:13 -0800

Vietnamese maid finds Taiwanese employer is her long-lost dad

US Census Bureau's DataWeb

Gyan — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:03:28 -0800

TheDataWeb - a network of online data libraries on topics including census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data

the hellidays spirit

nickyskye — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:16:30 -0800

A good chuckle about surviving the hellidays: Dysfunctional Family Holidays, the music l an interactive karaoke with several songs l What exactly is a dysfunctional family? l What are the roles for the kids? The Other Family Dysfunctional Family Circus (DFC), Wikipedia entry Larry the Cable Guy Presents: Dysfunctional Family Christmas Dysfunctional Family: Christmas video Dysfunctional Family: Dinner Time video Saturday Night live transcript for a Dysfunctional Family Christmas album with hits like "Let's Pretend We Like Each Other (This Christmas)", "The Almost Perfect Christmas", "Peace On Earth? Where?" The Free-Floating Dysfunctional Family CircusTM Archive v1.1.2 Trondog’s DFC Driven By Boredom DFC gallery The Family Circuss Previously, the wonderful Nietzsche Family Circus In spite of the, *ack, unicorn logo and Web 1.0 look, Joy2MeU is a good, not so humorous, site re dysfunctional family roles

Christmas + Tamales =

bigmusic — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:05:09 -0800

It is not Christmas without tamales.

The anxiety of influence

GrammarMoses — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:31:05 -0800

Sibling rivalry. Meet Edward Mapplethorpe, photographer. Yes, he's related to the other one. They're brothers -- which has actually made things harder for Edward than you might think. In his latest show, just wrapping up at NYC's Foley Gallery, Edward does amazing work using darkroom techniques alone: "The exhibition is composed of unique works solely created in the darkroom without the use of traditional cameras." (This one is my fave from the current show; of his earlier work, I particularly like this one and this one [nsfw].)

The Sad Story of Zahra al-Azzo

felix betachat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:06:13 -0800

Zahra al-Azzo was murdered by her brother last January in a horrible, but all-too-common Syrian honor killing. Public outcry at her murder is growing.

Mass murdering restauranteurs, the Benders

sleepy pete — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:43:42 -0800

The Benders were a family of German immigrants who opened a store and restaurant in the newly formed state of Kansas in the late 19th century. Led by the spiritualist Kate, they also were some of the United States first serial killers. Here's another site on the Benders, from the hotel that houses what's left of the Bender museum in Cherryvale, just watch out for the red background. As an added bonus, you can use this very cool historic newspaper search from the Library of Congress (as posted by cog_nate) to read news stories about what happened to the Benders. Here's a hint: several people were wrongfully arrested, but the Benders were never captured. Also, most believe they weren't even a family. They were liars and murderers!

Don't kill my Wife

Rubbstone — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:01:06 -0800

Please Columbia Don't Kill My Wife