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I’m methodically nuking my various Twitter accounts and migrating to Threads because it’s the lesser…

I’m methodically nuking my various Twitter accounts and migrating to Threads because it’s the lesser of two evils at this point. I already mentioned here that I created a threads account under my name. Now, I’ve created one for The Daddy Complex. So, if you’re on Threads, find me over there and say hello, fellow Spooligans.

Wyatt is still figuring out of he wants to dress up at all this Halloween, but Boone’s had his…

Wyatt is still figuring out of he wants to dress up at all this Halloween, but Boone’s had his costume picked out since summer…

I’m on Threads, y'all.

I’m on Threads, y'all.

Writing a Check to the Agency

davidvienna:

When my wife and I were trying to have a baby (and, yes, I realize, she was doing the heavy lifting in that department), we suffered multiple miscarriages over the course of nearly a decade. And before you say, “Why didn’t you just adopt?” I’ll say adoption is the answer to wanting to have a kid, but not the answer to fertility problems. So, we were exhausting one before we moved to the other.

But when the time came, we found a great adoption place in our area and started the process. We had one last round of IVF to go, but we were sure it wasn’t going to work, so we started the long process of prepping for adoption. The agency required all prospective parents to take a class and that cost a few hundred bucks. Before we wrote the check, we had this conversation:

Her: What if this latest round of IVF works?

Me: Let’s write the check anyway, let’s do the class. It’ll just be our way of telling the universe that we’re going to have kids whether it wants us to or not.

We wrote the check and attended our first class. Then, we found out that last round of IVF worked.

We essentially told the universe “You don’t want us to have kids? Well, fuck you.” And the universe changed course.

Now, we have two awesome boys. We asked that our money we gave the adoption agency be put toward another couple looking to start a family.

And now, when the universe tells us no, my wife and I say, “We just need to write a check to the adoption agency.” It means we need to do that thing that proves that, yes, we get the signal that the universe doesn’t want that to happen, but we don’t give a fuck. We’re doing it anyway.

Be bold. Take the scary step. Write the check.

Boone (that’s him on the right) and his incredible bandmates are playing the legendary Whisky a Go…

Boone (that’s him on the right) and his incredible bandmates are playing the legendary Whisky a Go Go tonight. If you live anywhere near L.A., come by and get some rock music put directly in your ear-holes.

Years ago, we thought it’d be a good waste of time to shoot a horror-comedy short. It turned out to…

Years ago, we thought it’d be a good waste of time to shoot a horror-comedy short. It turned out to be the birth of our production company Ridiculous Danger.

The Bouncy Bunny
A bedtime story becomes a journey of terror as a dad makes his way through the most horrifying children’s book ever published.

Watch the whole thing at our site… If you dare.

Lack of sleep directly affects the saltiness of my language, you motherfucker.

Lack of sleep directly affects the saltiness of my language, you motherfucker.

Bruh.

bestnatesmithever:

Bruh.

Today, for the first time ever, my internal monologue called me by name and I realized with a great…

Today, for the first time ever, my internal monologue called me by name and I realized with a great deal of shock that it’s always been an internal dialogue and now I’m kinda freaked out.

When you get an electric skateboard, life comes at you fast. So does the asphalt.

When you get an electric skateboard, life comes at you fast. So does the asphalt.

(He’s fine, people. He jumped right back up and kept going.)