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.

Things you might want to know, for May 20, 2023:

PSA: Death Stranding Is Free On PC Right Now — I find it maddening to actually play, but as an experience, DS is as fascinating and stupid as all Kojima games.

Things you might want to know, for May 18, 2023:

Telltale’s The Expanse Episode 1 Arrives This July — Drummer, Bobbie, and Amos were the most vibrant characters on the show, so building a game around one of them is a no-brainer.

Things you might want to know, for May 17, 2023:

Liz Phair to Play ‘Exile in Guyville’ in Its Entirety on New Tour — “And when I asked for a separate room/It was late at night and we’d been driving since noon/But if I’d known how that would sound to you/I would have stayed in your bed for the rest of my life/Just to prove I was right”
Why is everyone so into rough sex right now?

Things you might want to know, for May 16, 2023:

Frank Miller Wolverine variant cover ignites Twitter debate — It’s ugly. It’s not interesting. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a legitimate, thoughtful piece of art. That’s just where Miller’s head is at these days, for better or worse.

Things you might want to know, for May 15, 2023:

Sean Gunn is done playing Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy (but Kraglin is another story) — Rocket can go fuck Kraglin, for all I care… Sean Gunn is Kirk from Stars Hollow, end of story.

Things you might want to know, for May 12, 2023:

‘Madonna x Meisel – The SEX Photographs’ Auction Coming to Christie’s — I bought an aluminum-bound, foil-wrapped copy of the book in 1992 for $100. That… was not one of my best investments.

Things you might want to know, for May 10, 2023:

MTV News Is Shutting Down — I would be heartsick, were it not for the fact that “my” MTV has been gone for at least a decade, and this is simply one of the last bits of the corpse realizing it’s already dead.

Things you might want to know, for May 9, 2023:

Sex. Therapy. Acne. Why I bare all, by Sports Illustrated’s Olivia Ponton — Sports Illustrated… is still a thing?
Meet Melanie and Chayse: The disabled woman and her sex worker
Sex-Cult Rocket Man — The emphasis here is on (oc)cult rather than sex, but still… interesting.

Things you might want to know, for May 6, 2023:

Legendary magician Teller explains how he helped design Mrs. Davis’ magic tricks — If you measure entertainers in terms of sustained effectiveness across decades, Penn & Teller are up there with George Carlin and Martin Scorsese.