Bad Stuff

Role Playing, Craigslist Style

September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It’s been insufferably hot this summer. We’ve spent many a day blanketed ‘neath a swath of steamy, smoggy air; on days like that, when simply stepping out the front door causes a full body sweat, movies come in handy. By the time summer was halfway over, my kids and I had watched every movie we own several times, but in a stroke of genius, my husband suggested a family-friendly Disney movie from back in my day I’d all but forgotten: Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Good ol’ Rick Moranis. [Read the full story] Read More →

Bad Rants

Role Playing, Craigslist Style

September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Bad 101

If Tests In High School Were Like This, I Would Have Been Valedictorian

September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A few days ago a reader sent me a link and she was all, “this made me think of you.” And of course, it had to do with wine. So I clicked the link and this is what came up… [Read the full story] Read More →

Bad Moms Don't Judge

If Tests In High School Were Like This, I Would Have Been Valedictorian

September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Badfessions

From The Basement: Utterly Miserable

September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Posted by Anonymous. I’m so sorry, but I’m utterly miserable here. We never touch each other anymore, despite my advances. I asked you if you were seeing someone else and you blew me off. Is she at least prettier than I? I am pretty sure you’re seeing someone else. You come home from a 4-hour haircut smelling like cheap perfume. You work late but your paycheck doesn’t have any overtime on it. You’re also abusive. You’ve never hit me, this much is true. But you control every penny of our finances and make me feel like a spendthrift for daring to need a new pair... [Read the full story]

Blame Canada

Bad Moms Love Canadian Stuff

July 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

We do, we really do love our Canadian stuff. My childhood (and probably yours) wouldn’t have been complete without the following Canadianisms to shape and influence our growing brains: [Read the full story] Read More →

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Role Playing, Craigslist Style

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Caillou Makes Me Stabby

Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest...

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If Tests In High School Were Like This, I Would Have Been Valedictorian

A few days ago a reader sent me a link and she was all, “this made me think of you.” And of course, it had to do with wine. So I clicked the link and this is what came up…

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From The Basement: Utterly Miserable

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Bad Moms Take Really Crisp Photos

1. Use The Lowest ISO That You Can I know, I know. I haven’t explained ISO here yet. I explained it awhile ago on my personal site but the writing is old and cringe-worthy. I will keep this short and sweet for the purposes of this tutorial. The lower the ISO, the sharper your photo. This all depends...

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Bad Moms Will Get To That Later, Or Tomorrow

So, the summer is officially over in a week. Boo. I don’t know about you, but every summer I plan these amazing adventures for the kids, but they never really seem to come to fruition the way I envision. I blame procrastination. I’m a bit of a procrastinator. I’ll tell you about it some other time. There’s...

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Drunk Babies Are Not Funny…

…but babies with mustaches singing about being drunk totally are. Gee… I wonder what was in his bottle? Anyway. Welcome to a Tuesday morning dance party!

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Bad Moms Wanna Know When They’re Coming Out With Bad Cathy…

This whole Jersey Circus thing – wherein ‘The Family Circus’ gets the Jersey Shore treatment in its captions – is sorta funny, but really only in that one-out-of-every-seven kind of funny, and even then not gut-bustingly funny. It’s the sort of thing that sounds like it should be funny,...

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Baby Toys, You Don’t Need Much.

A sucker was born when my girl entered the world and I’m not referring to the fact that she was breastfed. The ‘sucker’ was me. Why sucker? Basically, because I believed all the promises made by baby toy manufacturers that they had produced the ULTIMATE baby toy that would stimulate and educate my...

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From The Um, What? Files: Fourteen-Year-Old Gets Cosmetic Tattoos With Mom’s Consent

We’ve already covered parents who give their kids homemade tattoos here at the Bad Moms Club, so let’s move right along, shall we, to parents who allow their children to be tattooed professionally in the name of beauty. Sophie Watson, a 14-year-old from Britain who has her sights firmly set on stardom,...

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This Week In Muppets: Puppet Relations

The Muppets make me happy, just purely and simply happy. Growing up with them has provided me with many a happy television-related memory, and in the pop culture museum of my heart they are placed alongside treasures like Charlie’s Angels, The Bionic Woman, Donny & Marie, and Land of the Lost. But the Muppets...

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This Week At MamaPop

As usual our sisters and brothers over at MamaPop have reported the latest gossip and pop culture stories so we don’t have to speed read at the grocery store checkout line. So what’s going on this week in the lives of people we will probably never ever meet?

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Bad Moms Use Cool Camera Apps

If you have an iPhone, chances are you take photos with it. (If you don’t have an iPhone, why not? It will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.) The cool thing about iPhone and its gazillion Apps is that there are a plethora (I love that word) of Apps that let you play with your photos right then and there, instead of waiting...

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Australian Teacher Assigns Terrorism Project To High School Class

A high school teacher in Australia made international headlines after assigning a project in which her Year 10 students were to pretend they were terrorists. Because, you know: EDUCATION. The assignment, given last week to a Contemporary Conflict and Terrorism class, instructed the students to make a ‘political...

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Ten Things That Bad Moms Know

Things I know for sure: 1. If you have unprotected sex, you will get pregnant. All four times. 2. If you ask your husband to take the trash cans to the curb, he will do it, but not on your schedule — on his. And that’s usually after the trash men have already passed your house. 3. If you tell your kids you’re...

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Do You Remember Your First Roller Coaster Ride?

For years when I was a kid, my aunt took my cousin and I to the CNE, which still remains the biggest fair I’ve ever been to. We’d spend the day roaming the Midway, trying to cram as many rides in as possible; our favourite, by far, was the gigantic orange roller coaster, the one with the steep drop and...

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It’s A Dad’s Life: Bad Dad Videos

Because there was never actually any ‘cool’ for me to lose, losing my ‘cool’ since becoming a parent has had little impact on my life. This is not to say that becoming a parent automatically means that you are required to hand in all your cool street cred. In fact I know a whole pile of cool...

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From The Basement: William Stafford Was His Favorite Poet

Posted by Anonymous. Since you were four months pregnant, your husband has been cheating on you, with me. He told me he loved me, that I was the love of his life. We spent almost every evening together, in the park, by the library, up the hill, anywhere you can think of in the San Mateo neighborhood… We have...

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