• New Detroit midfield terminal

    Any one who’s stopped at the Detroit airport knows that it’s perhaps the worst airport in the nation. If Detroit is your local airport, you get to know just how scuzzy it is on a regular basis. That’s why us Michiganders are excited about the new new midfield terminal that’s… Listen ⇢

  • Who are the next heroes of baseball?

    There are two importantr signs of spring for me, when the Dairy Queen on Stadium Blvd. opens for year on March 1st, but even more exciting than that is the opening of Basbeball spring training. In honor of spring training, here’s a link to an article in today’s USAToday, Who… Listen ⇢

  • NY Water towers

    One of the things I love about listening to “All Things Considered”, is the pieces they do about the everyday aspects of live. Today, they did a wonderful piece about the rooftop wooden water tanks that you see on every building in Manhattan that’s taller than six stories. Listen to… Listen ⇢

  • The crime of sharing

    From the New Architect [Via Tomalak’s Realm] comes a great editorial, The Crime of Sharing: “…just as sharing makes us civilized, it’s sharing that makes civilization… I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That’s why I’m stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate,… Listen ⇢

  • Dave Van Ronk RIP

    One of the great American musical icons, Dave Van Ronk, died at approximately 9:30 AM, February 10, 2002, at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan. He was sixty-five years old. Although Van Ronk did not achieve the public notoriety achieved by many of his peers from the Greenwich Village… Listen ⇢

  • CD Baby

    If you’re like me and have eclectic music tastes that tend to run more towards non-major label artists like Mark Kozelek, Grant-Lee Phillips or Melissa Ferrick, where do you go to discover and listen to bands like Some of None? Why, you go to the online indie music store CD… Listen ⇢

  • Welcome Robin

    Welcome to our new daddyo author, Robin. If you’re wondering what credentials Robin brings to daddyo.com, how about the fact that he lives near a small Quaker community at the foot of the tallest mountain on the East coast? Not good enough? How about the fact that he went to… Listen ⇢

  • sofa-bed

    The hide-a-bed or sofa-bed is really, if you think about it in the abstract, a great idea. A couch sits quietly in the corner being a couch until there are more bodies than beds and then you just swing the coffee table out of the way, throw the pillows across… Listen ⇢

  • Indo-Pakistani Tensions Mount At Local Amoco

    Sometimes I wonder just what this site is all about. But when I see something as brilliant as this article from “The Onion”, I know it’s all about separating the wheat from the chaff… Read Indo-Pakistani Tensions Mount At Local Amoco from The Onion. Listen ⇢

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