The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for May 21, 2023:

• Hot Wheels car designer Harry Bradley dead at 84 — Hot Wheels were —amusingly— a giant part of my childhood. I had several plastic storage cases full of them, one of which was molded to look like a Goodyear tire. My brother and I raced them down home-made courses because we used the official plastic strips of track to hit each other, I lingered over them in the toy aisle at Kmart like an art collector at a museum, and sat in my room making up elaborate stories for them akin to what girls were doing with Barbie. Only I never made my cars scissor with one another.
• ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best — Any list that suggests there were 24 episodes of Buffy —an entire season!— worse than “Doublemeat Palace” was created by someone who is both sad and stupid. (Probably an AI.) I’m okay with someone preferring it to, say, “Beer Bad” or “Where The Wild Things Are”, but DP is a top five, all-time worst for the show.
• Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87 — It seldom gets mentioned, but he was also an elite lacrosse player in college, a nationally competitive runner in track-and-field, and a decent basketball player… there was pretty much no sport Jim couldn’t have dominated if he’d cared to try.
• Can casual sex ever really be casual? — “Yes.” There, I’ve answered this piece’s insipid opening question.

• ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ Review: Joanna Arnow’s Hilarious and Clever Debut
• The Smiley Face Killers Conspiracy Theory Died Down. Then Came TikTok — PROTIP: the more ephemeral the medium, the less seriously you should take it… TikTok has nothing to teach that you need to learn.
• How BDSM & paradoxes inspired director Zachary Wigon to make his new erotic thriller ‘Sanctuary’
• The Ephemeral Tattoo Studio provides tattoos that completely fade away after 1-3 years — I’m in favor of anything that makes a girl’s dumb decisions less permanent.

• Anna Nicole Smith’s Father ‘Tried to Have Sex’ with Her After Playmate Party, Friend Claims in Netflix Doc — Of course he did.
• I founded SNCTM, the world’s most exclusive sex club — it ruined my marriage — Of course it did.
• Illicit sex parties enjoyed by Silicon Valley’s finest at ‘warehouses’ — Of course they are.