David Vienna's Blog, page 196

Tumblr, I Need You

My friend Kristen Howerton is an amazing mother and she’s being attacked by white supremacists.

Kristen, who blogs at Rage Against The Minivan, and her husband adopted two children, who happen to be of a different race than her, into their family. They are wonderful people. All of them, truly wonderful.

Because she has two black children and two white children, a white supremacist group reposted one of Kristen’s YouTube videos and now she’s getting tons of racist hate from online inbred hick fuckheads. They’re saying her daughters will be raped, they’re photoshopping pictures of her kids, they are proving that some people make the fires of a real Hell a necessity.

Fuck racism. FUCK RACISM. FUCK RACISM!

Tumblr folks, you can do SO much, you are a force. You can do this. Bring the fucking hammer down on these fucking racist shit stains.

PLEASE send Kristen a message of support. Let her know that as a mom who is helping raise a mixed-race family, she is one of the good guys (or rather gals).

Comment on her Facebook page, tweet at her, signal boost this shit, do whatever you can.

Goddamn it, Kristen’s family doesn’t deserve this. They deserve praise. Please, help praise them.

Thank you.

They announced it so I can, too:I’m a speaker at the 2016 Dad...

They announced it so I can, too:

I’m a speaker at the 2016 Dad 2.0 Summit, which this year takes place in my old stomping ground, Washington DC. I’ll offer details about the topic I’ll discuss once organizers release the schedule and stuff, but I can say it’s slightly related to my book Calm The F*ck Down.

The event is just a couple of weeks away, so if you’re a dumblr who’s going, I’ll see you there. If not, prepare for a bunch of pics of me hanging out with dad bloggers… probably drinking.

I see the @dad2summit as more than an annual refresh of content ideas and parenting discussions, but a chance for me to hang out with e-friends I’ve made throughout the years. Should be fun.

The boys bamboozled a newbie sitter into thinking they could stay up late watching movies, so now we...

The boys bamboozled a newbie sitter into thinking they could stay up late watching movies, so now we only hire sitters who worked at the local jeet kune do studio.

Totally not a joke.

Rainy day = video game marathon.

Rainy day = video game marathon.

ICYMI: This is a thing you should see.

ICYMI: This is a thing you should see.

Sound Logic

Wyatt: You're the best papa I ever had.

Me: I'm the ONLY papa you've ever had.

Wyatt: Yeah, that's why you're the best.

Me: ...

Wyatt: ...

Me: I'll take it.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesRemember how I started a new job at a big...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Remember how I started a new job at a big mucky-muck agency a couple of months ago? Well, about that…

One month into my employment, my wife was offered a sweet gig at a major movie studio. (I can’t tell you exactly which one, but it rhymes with Swarner Brothers.) Despite the fact that I’m a moderately successful writer/social media person/bon vivant, her skill set has always paid more than mine and her salary offer proved that. For real, it’s ridiculous. So, we sat down, did the math, and determined that it made more sense at this point for her to return to her role as family breadwinner and for me to return to my role as stay-at-home dad… sort-of.

The staff and executives at my job were really cool about the fact that I had to leave a mere two months after starting and I’m still great friends with my former coworkers. Luckily, another agency offered me a part-time gig and I’ll still get to work on pretty cool campaigns. (I can’t tell you the name of one of the studios with which I’ll be working, but it rhymes with Smarvel.) So I won’t be the breadwinner, but I’ll still bring in a little bread. Like a dinner roll’s worth.

Most importantly, however, thanks to the part-time schedule, I’m able to take over homemaking duties. I now take the boys to school, pick them up, make their lunches, do the laundry, help with their homework, bathe them—all the stuff my wife did for the last few years. I haven’t seen the boys much as my work-life got more and more busy over 2015, so I love that I can spend so much time with them now.

Last month, I was buried with work as we finished up the social campaign for a tentpole show. Tomorrow, the boys and I have plans to build a hunted mansion for their Lego figures. And I couldn’t be happier.

Happy birthday to the only guy with whom I could hang out at a...

Happy birthday to the only guy with whom I could hang out at a vacant San Francisco shoeshine stand drinking until 4 a.m. — @how2beadad‘s Andy Herald, who hits the big 40 today. 

This is the exact moment when my wife confessed to her mom that,...

This is the exact moment when my wife confessed to her mom that, decades ago, she did acid.

Thanks to Tumblr's tag/post suggestion algorithm, I was just treated to a full-frontal pic of a nude guy

@staff: “Oh, you want to see posts celebrating dads? Here’s a huge cock. Samesies.”