In the home life imagined by New Yorker covers, dads seem to have all the fun.
Spiegelau now makes beer glasses for IPAs, stouts and American wheat beers, while Libbey makes a great six-piece set that will cover Dad for anything that's in the fridge.
A young man whose father happened to be at a meeting in the World Trade Center that day unfolded the American flag that had covered his dad's coffin.
So, we kept her in a cardboard box in the garage, her dead body stiff and visible through the blanket my dad had covered her with.
So we kept her in a cardboard box in the garage, her dead body stiff and visible through the blanket my dad had covered her with.
As befits a magazine aimed at men between 25 and 54 who have children younger than 18, the cover of Dads' premiere issue is given over to Cal Ripken Jr., the Baltimore Orioles superstar.
In several William Steig covers (July 6 , 1935 October 12 , 1935 October 6 , 1956, the dad revels in the kids' attention shooting off fireworks to great acclaim, or receiving a kiss from a grateful daughter for a new doll, or rooting for his son in a football game.
But the logic of the story, which seems imposed on the characters rather than an organic product of their circumstances, covers Mam and Dad with the stale dust of 30's-style social realism.
The amount of people who want me to stand with my kid in front of a lingerie shop or [do covers of my dad's songs] - I'd never do any of that until I was satisfied.
Whether it was an intentional choice on my parents' part or a subconscious leaning, Prince music wasn't played in our home and his face wasn't discoverable when I studied the glossy covers in my dad's album collection.
