Posts for Always Home and Uncool


My Final Plea: Vote Cure JM in Pepsi Refresh Today, Get Others to Do the Same

From Always Home and Uncool
August 31, 2010 at 12:11 am
This is Thing 1 about a month into her diagnosis of juvenile dermatomyositis in 2002. She’s nearly 3 years old in this photo. That’s apple sauce and mashed potatoes in front ... (more)

Meet My Spouse, Flathead

From Always Home and Uncool
August 30, 2010 at 12:01 am
Kids, while I’m finishing up these Sea Breezes and Elmore Leonard novels at Blogger Rehab today, your dear Aunt Becky from Mommy Wants Vodka will be looking after you. Aunt ... (more)

Vodkamom Receives an ‘Incomplete’

From Always Home and Uncool
August 27, 2010 at 12:01 am
Boys and girls, settle down please. While I’m buried in martinis and David Sedaris essays during my self-imposed Blogger Rehab today, everyone’s favorite alcohol-swilling ... (more)

I’ll Give You a Free Press

From Always Home and Uncool
August 25, 2010 at 12:01 am
Want revenge on the local Chinese restaurant that’s always stuffing menus under your windshield wiper? Then you need some flyers to plaster on their storefront window that ... (more)

Chickens

From Always Home and Uncool
August 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
While I’m knocking back mojitos and Carl Hiaasen novels in Blogger Rehab this week, a few friends will stopping by to keep you entertained. Today welcome The Holmes, a colleague ... (more)

Vote In Memory of Cole Flack

From Always Home and Uncool
August 20, 2010 at 12:13 am
Cole Flack of Oregon received his diagnosis of juvenile dermatomyositis in February 2007, roughly four-and-a-half years after Thing 1 received hers. In the years that followed, ... (more)

The Death of Cool

From Always Home and Uncool
August 18, 2010 at 12:01 am
You have reached the “Always Home and Uncool” blog. Kevin Uncool can’t come to the blog right now, so fellow at-home dad Ron Mattocks (the Clark Kent’s Lunchbox blog, ... (more)

The Law of School Supplies and Demand

From Always Home and Uncool
August 16, 2010 at 12:01 am
One thing excited me most about the start of the school year as a child: new supplies. Oh, the days of eager anticipation they created. I'd stare at the plastic coating on my ... (more)

Honestly, I Liked ‘Mr. Mom’

From Always Home and Uncool
August 12, 2010 at 11:15 am
Every other Tuesday I franticly work on the newspaper column I’ve avoided writing for the past two weeks, a process made even more difficult by the lovely Polish women who fumigate ... (more)

BlogHer: The Chicks are All Right

From Always Home and Uncool
August 9, 2010 at 9:06 am
Only a handful of women directly addressed the elephant in the room (actually, the penis in the elevator) at BlogHer ‘10 this past weekend by asking me: “Why are you here at ... (more)

BlogHer: Treat this Guy Like One of the Girls

From Always Home and Uncool
August 4, 2010 at 12:01 am
For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter (and what’s up with that?), you missed the big announcement the other week that confirms your long-held suspicions: I will ... (more)

Dogged

From Always Home and Uncool
August 1, 2010 at 9:02 pm
I’ve just mopped up urine in the foyer for the second time this morning. Dusty containers of tile and grout sealer, unopened and mocking, sit just behind the hall closet door. ... (more)

Ugh, Wilderness!

From Always Home and Uncool
July 30, 2010 at 12:01 am
Twice a year, my wife and I break the seal on our hermetically suburbanized lives to go camping. Since we are as rugged as a cardboard box in a hurricane, we load the Things into ... (more)

Genuine

From Always Home and Uncool
July 28, 2010 at 2:35 pm
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams I never knew Robert D'Aquila, the high school principal ... (more)

What is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladenned Swallow?

From Always Home and Uncool
July 26, 2010 at 1:23 pm
While I finish tapping out the epic tale of my dog's bout with an autoimmune disease as well as doing another load of laundry (one word -- OxiClean; that wacky, and dead, Billy ... (more)

Novocaine for the Soul

From Always Home and Uncool
July 19, 2010 at 10:45 pm
The following knowledge has been acquired by yours truly in the past two weeks: I have a compressed nerve in my left arm that is causing the index finger on that hand to tingle ... (more)

Maybe I’m Not Such a Bad Guy After All

From Always Home and Uncool
July 12, 2010 at 11:44 am
    Phew! That was close. Hope it works better on youth soccer officials. + + + Now please swing over to my blogging bud Vodka Mom’s site where you can ... (more)

Pepsi Refresh Proving Me Wrong

From Always Home and Uncool
July 8, 2010 at 12:01 am
While I'll tell you that I am a realist, I know what I really am. I am a pessimist. I am a cynic. Sometimes that makes me, plainly put, an a-hole of the nth degree. When My Love ... (more)

Thirteen

From Always Home and Uncool
June 28, 2010 at 12:01 am
That’s was some crazy wedding night. Happy 13th anniversary, My Love. You’re still smoking, but only in a totally Surgeon General-approved kind of way. For more of the story, ... (more)

Certifiable

From Always Home and Uncool
June 24, 2010 at 12:01 am
From this point on, My Love, you shall refer to me as your husband, the Award-Winning Sports Columnist.” “Hmm?” she grunted over her coffee. “I want to now be introduced ... (more)

Wax On, Wax Off Wednesday: A Hairless Tale of FAIL

From Always Home and Uncool
June 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
If the object of a Brazilian is hair-free hair down there, I would hope frizz-free is a minimal requirement. But just to hedge its bets, the salon advertised this waxing special ... (more)

The Carnival Arrives and I Get Stuck in the Cotton Candy Machine

From Always Home and Uncool
June 21, 2010 at 10:58 am
If you’ve ever checked out my Blogger profile, you know I live in an “area of New England mistaken for New York.” We’re waaaaaay down south in that little nub of Connecticut ... (more)

Happy Father’s Day! You’re Being Replaced By Rosie O’Donnell.

From Always Home and Uncool
June 18, 2010 at 12:01 am
Since it is far better to give than receive, this Father's Day I shall be bestowing a special gift to my children: a divorce from their mother. Don't worry about my soon-to-be ... (more)

Best Father’s Day Gifts Ever (if you really hate a dad)

From Always Home and Uncool
June 16, 2010 at 3:50 pm
The Always Home and Uncool inbox has been overflowing of late with marketing and PR e-mails purporting to contain great gift ideas for dads this upcoming Father’s Day. However, ... (more)

I’ll Take a Mulligan

From Always Home and Uncool
June 14, 2010 at 2:27 pm
My pinpoint accuracy as a golfer is legendary. If by “accuracy” you mean my ability to inadvertently hit objects that I am not aiming for but would be pretty impressive to ... (more)