The now-in-college-at-age-16 wonderkid, Cooper McHatton, makes his 2013 debut on OWTK with a review of an exciting new online game with a very rad Steampunk-y logo called The Time Tribe. Take it away, Cooper. ********** The kickstarter funded, deceptively educational, mystery point & click, online story-based adventure game, The Time […]
Yes, it is hotter on average there. But being from SE PA, I have experienced enough 95/95 heat/humidity days to not be afraid. Plus, on the gulf coast beaches, it always feels beautiful, breezy, and perfect.The 85 degree clean water doesn’t hurt either. Over on Philly Kids Thing, I make […]
Our kiddie movie library is pretty massive: dozens of Scholastic Storybook Treasuries, a handful of Gustafer Yellowgolds, several Christmas-y ones like A Year Without A Santa, Miser Brothers’ Christmas, and Rudolph, all the ancient Strawberry Shortcake VHS tapes, Rainbow Brite, Busytown Mysteries, and Annie. So yeah, pretty massive, and also […]
I’ve been a surly a-hole to pretty much everyone lately. It is painfully obvious that I’m in desperate need a pick me up. And so I turn to music, as I have done for the past two decades, to provide the medicinal lift. Here are some of the finest kindie […]
Mayor Bloomberg failed today to enact a ban on mammoth sodas. Fans of small government are cheering, while concerned citizens sulk. But the real losers, as always, are the kids of the adults who think consuming 64 ounces of soda, bags of Cheetos, and sleeves of Oreos are wise food […]
To be a dad blogger is to be the doctor, the patient, and the audience…observing your self-surgery in that cool hospital theater room thing. Those are real right, not just elaborate set designs on primetime hospital dramas? A dad blogger must be willing to cut himself open as a means […]
My then 8-year-old daughter asked Santa for a Nintendo 3DS last year. I asked why, when we already have the Wii, an iPad and a pair of iPhones with apps galore loaded onto each of them. Why did she/we need yet another device? She said she wanted something of her […]
Last summer, we saw a lot of Baltimore. Okay, to be completely factual here, we saw a little of Baltimore, a lot. You see, geographically speaking, Baltimore is located along the semi-straight line that is the route between our home in Southeastern PA and Washington D.C., and our nation’s capital […]
