Alternadad
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Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America
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39 years old
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 5/15/2008
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Alternadad's Interests
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| General | Whatever I was interested in before I had a kid, plus dinosaurs and robots. | | Music | Greasy Kids' Stuff, The Johnny Cash Children's Album, Les Sans Culottes, Bloodshot Records' The Bottle Let Me Down, Rockin' Rudy's Kids Caravan, The Aquabats, The Ramones. | | Movies | The Iron Giant, Babe, Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Superman, The Wizard Of Oz, Microcosmos, Charlotte's Web, Monsters, Inc. | | Television | Pee Wee's Playhouse, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League, The Electric Company. | | Books | Flanimals, Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early, In The Night Kitchen, The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Stories, The Big Pets, Sally Goes To The Beach, What Pete Ate From A To Z, Slugs, Berke Breathed's Unwanted Dogs, and so many more... | | Heroes | Hot Man, Goo Man, Remote Control Man, Mr. Dang, Dr. Pulp, Dr. Boney, Tintin. |
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Alternadad's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Children: | Proud parent |
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BOOKLIST
"Pop-culture writer Pollack has a reputation as a fun-loving, party-going hipster. For years he danced awkwardly from relationship to relationship, until he found the person he was looking for and settled down (sort of). Now we learn his deep, dark secret: he loves his little boy, loves him with a goofy, all-consuming love that makes him (and the reader) break out into smiles nearly constantly. This book, which recounts the author's transition from hipster guy to hipster dad, is both laugh-out-loud funny and cry-softly poignant. Written in Pollack's in-your-face, no-holds-barred style, it just may be the most offbeat book about parenting ever written, and fans of the author's previous, equally idiosyncratic book--including that pop-culture staple The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (2000)--will be utterly enraptured."
TEXAS MONTHLY
"Engaging...Pollack is...America's postmodern Erma Bombeck."
L.A. TIMES
"Revelatory and funny...He writes deliciously of his son's malapropisms and imaginary playmates, of the intense satisfaction they get joking, moshing and telling stories. More traditional dads surely love their kids just as much, but rarely has the bond felt more moving than it does here."
SLATE
"Very funny...Pollack shouldn't simply be lumped in with a spurious hipster parenting movement. His book reveals that the core aim of fatherhood has barely budged: provide food, clothing, shelter."
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"Alternadad is more than just the work of a proud papa toking from a vaporizer. Pollack proves himself capable of handling serious subject matter."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Amusingly cranky...The hilarious and emotional all-family brouhaha that erupts over the topic of circumcision will resonate with many, as will Pollack's description of the conflicted feelings all parents have at one time or another."
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"Bracingly honest, and so full of love it could just as easily go in the Parenting section, next to Anne Lamont's classic, "Operating Instructions"... "Alternadad" gives comfort, with a bonus of lots of laughs, to every parent who is just doing the best he can."
“Alternadad is peppered with the scary-funny one-liners we've come to expect from the intriguing American crank Neal Pollack. But it's also a surprisingly romantic tale of love and hope, and even civic-minded warmth, set amidst the dingier blocks of Chicago and Austin and the trashcan fires of Philadelphia.” —Sarah Vowell
Neal Pollack is the author of Never Mind the Pollacks and the Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature. He lives in Los Angeles.
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