'News' Archive
July 9, 2010: THAT LONG WEEK BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND BASTILLE DAYS
It’s hot, and we’re in the mood to blame people for things. Fortunately we heard from a reader this week, who detailed for us all the ways in which her mom’s gestational habits screwed her up. Which got us thinking: how did our mothers ruin our lives? Probably in more ways than we could count. We probably would have gone to real-doctor school, if they had laid off the gin in that last trimester.
Of course it’s unproductive to blame our mothers for what they may or may not have smoked while we were helplessly floating in their poisoned amniotic fluids, but summer’s all about being unproductive, are we right? So next week we’ll take an in-depth look at how your mother’s pre-parental misbehavior has forever altered the course of your life. We would have done it this week, but we were too busy sweating. Anyway, we need to read some stuff, and also talk to your moms. Which is more difficult than you’d think. What’s up with the all-caps emails, ladies? And why are you faxing your replies?
Until then, read this young lady’s sad tale, and weep. Not too much, though–you don’t want to dehydrate yourself.
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October 26, 2009 Best Halloween Strategies
You’re still trying to decide between the sexy witch costume and the sexy vampire nurse costume, aren’t you? Or is it just that you’re hoping to make it through Halloween weekend without anyone noticing the fun-size candy bar wrappers overflowing from your purse?
What we’re really hoping is that this year you’ll make an effort. Pregnant women’s costume choices range from spooky (pregnant witch) to serious (pregnant vampire nurse), but it’s the women with viable, ambulatory children who we address in this week’s post with our intellectually superior Halloween costume guide.
But we haven’t forgotten our pregnant friends! We have a nice visualization for you up on the front page. Light a candle, take some deep breaths, and try to remember what it’s like not being a bloated, hormonal mess.
September 18, 2009, In Which Accolades Are Graciously Accepted
We know what you’re saying to yourself. You’re saying, “Oh, Doctors Kennedy and Bradley, how is it that you have not yet received the Nobel Prize for the enlightening work that you publish for free on your Internet website?”
Honestly, we’ve been asking ourselves the same question. Much like the origin of life itself, the lack of gratitude coming out of Sweden for all we do remains a mystery. What’s crystal clear, however, is that we have made a small splash in the good ol’ English-speaking biosphere! In other words, we got linked on Metafilter a few weeks back. If you go there and ignore the fact that half of the discussion veers off into some amusing rants about xenophobia, you’ll find at least twelve people who really like this site.
The other fun thing is that the oldest women’s magazine in the United States of America — yes, that would be Redbook — published a little notice about us in their October issue, calling Let’s Panic About Babies! their “favorite time-waster.” They go on to describe this site as,
a hilarious Onion-style website about parenting from all-star mommy blogger and soon-to-be REDBOOK columnist Alice Bradley and her cohort Eden Kennedy. Launched in June to crashing levels of traffic, Let’s Panic will soon be adding contests, giveaways, and reader Q&A’s.
Wikipedia defines cohort thusly:
Originally, the cohort was a sub-unit of a Roman legion. Each Roman legion would have ten cohorts. The first of ten cohorts had five double-sized centuries totaling 800 men whereas the other nine would usually consist of 480 legionaries including six centurions. The cohort itself was divided into six centuries of 80 men commanded each by a centurion.
So then I’m like some sort of legionnaire?
I need to go buy a fez!
Anyway, we didn’t want to brag, but somehow we managed to do it all the same.
Oh, and Alice is going to be a columnist in Redbook starting in January, did you catch that part?!