Transforming Mutants

In Lille, we have The Last Bar Before the End of the World – undoubtedly a play on Douglas Adams’s The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, because everything about it screams “esoteric geek,” from the glassed-in collection of animé figurines to the cocktail names (“Sith,” “Triforce,” and of course “Pangalactic Gargleblaster”) to the…

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The Beskirted Boy at 5

This article was originally published at The Good Men Project on 9/10/16, as a sort of sequel to another article posted three years earlier. Three years is an eternity in toddler time. Back when my son X turned two, he had some basic skills, but nothing resembling higher reasoning, socialization, inhibitions, or even interests to…

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