Monday, September 01, 2008

Gender Politics, Indeed

Jonah (10) has asked about pregnancy. Specifically, he wants to know what labor and delivery means. Reha is going into some detail about how uterine contractions and labor and delivery work. All that squeezing.

Re: So when the baby is coming and all that is happening you want to be [she’s about to say, “be near a hospital in case something goes wrong,” but Jonah interrupts]

Jonah: A man. It’s a good idea to be a man.

Well played, Jonah. Well played.

Jon scribbled this mess on 09/01/08 at 12:03 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Fear My Tears

Carrie from Jon Deal on Vimeo.

Our oldest daughter left for college. I gathered a bunch of old photos of her and strung them together.

She’s awesome.

It’s crazy how time flies. I swear, it feels like she was born about twenty minutes ago.

And yes, I did weep a lot while making this.

And if you dare make fun of my hair as seen here (or the popped collar at around the 3:00 mark), I will hunt you down and do bad things to you. Or, I’ll just find bad pics of you from your past and post them on the IntarWebs. Don’t push me, pal, I’m a man on the edge right now.

Jon scribbled this mess on 08/28/08 at 04:09 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Ain’t No Pain Like This

I am still swamped and will be until later this week.

But I just have to say this:

Carrie (our oldest), just left for college.

I watched from the middle of the street as the van turned the corner.

And wept. Tears of sorrow and joy at the same time. It’s awful and wonderful and crazy-making.

More later. (I have a fair amount to say about this, as you can imagine.)

Jon scribbled this mess on 08/26/08 at 09:24 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

I Kinda Suck as a Guest Poster

There are reasons why people don’t ask me to guest post on their blogs.

A) I send them my post and then forget to link to the guest post from my site. This is kinda unforgivable in the blog-ity world, which as well all know is fueled by links, Red Bull and longing.

B) I ask, “what should I write about?” and the guest posting requesting blogger says, “Just be yourself, it’ll be great!” which sends me into a spiral of self-doubt, shame and self-loathing such that I can only calm down after eating an entire tub of cookie dough ice cream, a whole package of Twizzlers, hours of aimless “procrasti-surfing” on Wikipedia, YouTube or Hulu and then puking for days. (I do this instead of regular therapy and it’s proven to be the least healthy and effective thing I’ve ever done in my life. I should stop doing that.)

C) People rarely ask me. (This is probably the largest reason, if I had to be honest with myself, I suppose.)

Anyway, I’m a bad blog citizen (and a bad husband and father and generally a bad person and oh hell, WHERE IS THE ICE CREAM? WE ARE OUT! I HAVE TO GO TO THE STORE, be right back), but I’m rectifying that now. Many of you are probably landing here at Ransom Note Typography HQ from here, where I spewed a little thing the other night. Brenda is a peach.

And though you will wonder why after you read it, you might also be interested in a post I scribbled in crayon over at my good (and patient) friend Loralee‘s site. It’s about BlogHer 08, so it’s about 1400 years old in “web time.” (i.e., last month). Loralee, over my not terribly strident objections has convinced me that I simply must go to BlogHer next year, which I’ll probably do. I’ll be one of the twelve guys in a crowd of 1000 women, wondering exactly what I’ve gotten myself into. And trying not to be “creepy bearded guy” and instead be “non-threatening, cuddly beard guy.”

I have a year or so to work on that.

Jon scribbled this mess on 08/20/08 at 10:09 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I Am Obama’s V.P. Candidate

Well, I should be.

Here are my qualifications:

In the run up to the General Election, I will bring the insanely valuable, effete, Prius loving, white, middle class male demographic out in droves.

I know how to cast tie breaking votes in the Senate.

I can cry on demand at state funerals for foreign dignitaries.

All the scandalous stuff I’ve ever done is detailed here on my site. (Except the thing about the puppies. That goes with me to my grave.)

The beard. I can go either way. Though most people agree, I look marginally better with a beard. But if you say, “Shave it, Jon-boy and come help me run the country!” I can get on board with that. No problem.

My wife is awesome. And we have photogenically cute and smart kids. (And I’d be very curious to see how the Secret Service would handle Ellis, she already has her Secret Service code name picked out: “Princess Poopy Pink Pants” (OK, I picked it that one, but she’d be down with “Princess"))

If Obama is elected and something should happen, I’m totally ready to shirk my duties like our current president. I promise to take even MORE vacations that GWB.

I’m pretty much bald and that brings GRAVITAS. Also shows that I am not beholden to the hair care industry. “I will accept no ‘product’ during this campaign.”

“Change we can believe in” is not just a slogan with me. I’ve had FOUR kids in diapers. I know all about Change.

Posting will be a little light for the next little while. I have some huge projects going on right now. Plus, our oldest, Carrie, leaves for college in exactly a week. So I have a lot of weeping sessions built into my schedule between now and then. You have to pace yourself with those. Too much crying at the beginning and you’ll get dehydrated.

Jon scribbled this mess on 08/19/08 at 11:30 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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