Rock stars.  Always pushing the envelope. Always living on the edge.  Always daring.  If you want to stay current, baby, you’ve got to look at what those on top are doing and ride that wave.  And right now?  That wave is vomiting all over the stage. In the last few days both Justin Bieber and […]

Last week I was exposed to a dose of Reality TV.  It wasn’t fatal, but I have spent the last week pausing dramatically, and then saying shocking things; telling people that I want to build them their dream laundry hamper; demanding that cumin be included of every course of every meal for the day; and […]

In these final days leading up to having the baby, there’s been a lot of advice for me, the dad-to-be, on what to expect, and how to prepare.  Lots of clearly false information, doled out by so-called “doctors,” so-called “books,” and “Doulas” which, for all I know, could be the Dutch word for “hippie.”  Lots […]

As many of you may know, my wife and I will be having a baby soon.  Very soon.  Now, I’m planning to simply run older posts – especially older posts that basically no one who didn’t have the same last name as me saw – a couple days a week for the first little while, […]

We had to write a bunch of thank you cards today, for baby gifts (man, raising a child really is hard work!).  And by “we” I mean my wife wrote a lot and I periodically popped in and said, “Wow, you’re still at it?” and then eventually she got fed up and I had to […]

We’ve gone to a few birthing classes at this point.  A lot of it is pretty unnecessary (“Really?  She shouldn’t be using street drugs while pregnant?  Not even meth?”), but there’s some good information and exercises, as well as going a long way to piercing the denial bubble the Byronic Wife has carefully maintained regarding […]

The Byronic Man is a certified astrologer.  He has a Masters degree in Zodiacry from the University of Nehru, and a PhD in Astronomy and Astro-Physics from The Louvre. Capricorn: Today you will meet a Pisces and fall wildly in love and live passionately, and ecstatically.  Unless you miss your opportunity. Talk to every person […]

I was flipping through a magazine earlier and it had this article with several New York movers & shakers who have discovered wearing jeans.  Even to work.  I know!  Jeans!  Just…. wearing them! I realize this is a little more unusual in the Northeast.  I wore jeans once in Massachusetts and people looked at me […]