Bringing Up the Bottom of Alltop
Dad’s House was recently selected to be part of Alltop – a website that collects stories from “all the top sites” on the internet. It’s the brainchild of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Guy Kawasaki, the noted Apple evangelist from back in the day. (I was at Xerox around that same time.) My blogging friends Ms. Single Mama and Single Mom Seeking are listed near the top of Alltop’s Moms page. And I’m on the Dads page, right there at the very…bottom. That’s okay. In fact, it’s probably best.
I took some time to explore the hundred or so blogs on dads.alltop.com. It looks like a great collection. There are dads of all types – a New York City Metro Dad; a flowchart-making Dorky Dad; some stay-at-home dads like Laid Off Dad, House Dad Chronicles, and I’m Not a Slacker Dad; a Tech-Gadget Dad (actually, that’s a lot of them, but this Dad blogged the merits of three different traffic analysis software packages, so he get’s my vote); a Newspaper Family Reporter Dad; a Modern Day Dad who reads People magazine; and a Dad Whose Three Kids Pee on One Toilet, Simultaneously (I gotta say, if they were 18, he could probably do some sort of PayPerView thing with this… and on that note, welcome to my sense of humor.)
Like I said, a great group of guys. Proud papas all. (I’m a proud papa, too!)
Maybe I didn’t look hard enough, but I didn’t notice any other Single Dads (like me), or even dads who have teens. I don’t mind. I’ve been going it solo so long, I just assume my situation is different than most. But I wonder if any of these dads (and moms on the moms.alltop site) realize what sort of blogging neighbor now lurks in their midst.
Do they have any idea what goes on in Dad’s House? There’s…
• the fast teenage daughter and the son with gossiping friends.
• the ex-girlfriend texting for booty.
• the salsa dance classes with four men to each woman.
• the dinner date women who just want one-night-stands.
• the coffee dates that turn into gourmet feasts (and who exactly pays?).
• the rants against online dating (it doesn’t work!)
• and of course, cocktails! cocktails! cocktails!
While Alltop-blogging dads around me write deftly, fondly, and lovingly on the trials and tribulations of parenthood, complete with first big words, soccer-playing toddlers, loving partners, and building snowmen, I’m blogging about single parenting, two-household families, and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, friends with benefits, hooking up, and booty calls. There are lighter moments, with musings on things like trumpets, vacations, and golden retrievers. But overall, Dad’s House seems a different, danker, darker world, indeed.
(Unfortunately, one of my new favorite blogs featuring a single-guy’s witty insights into the minds of men, What Men Think, isn’t on the dads.alltop list. But that’s only because he isn’t a dad. Perhaps a new Alltop category can be created to give him an aggregate home.)
I’m proud and happy to join the Alltop community. We’re the same in that we’re all parents. I’ll get to know you, you’ll get to know me, we’ll all learn something and be amused in the process.
As for bringing up the bottom of Alltop – I’m content. For now, it feels just right.
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Congrats on your Alltop selection.
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C a r a
David, did you get my email about our contest? We desperately want your perspective!
Thanks Cara, O Ye of Rockin’ Legs!
Lance - got your email. The contest described on your blog sounds great. I’m definitely IN.
David,
I just saw you in the comments section for Dadgonemad in which he solicited blogs and favorite posts. I’ve also seen you on Alltop. I did see another dad on Alltop who was single, but it escapes me at the moment.
~your neighbor on Alltop and in DGM’s comments section
Bill
Thanks for dropping in! Your BillAndJill blog posts are cracking me up.
Thanks, DH! To answer your question about the Samurai 12 cards… They’re for free lunches at a place I frequent here in Maryland called ‘Ricky’s Rice Bowl’. Some of my coworkers might say “frequnt obsessively”. Every 12 stamps = free lunch. At any given time, I have at least four, just in case I ever want to post the contents of my pockets online, in which case they provide a little local color.
Good to meet you!
Congrats David!!
Thats a huge compliment,be proud of yourself. I think you have so much to offer the single parent community with your writing!
What do I got to do to inspire you to share your blog with our I heart single parents community! I think our single moms and single dads would love it…
http://www.iheartsingleparents.com
oh! and we made the local news this week!! =) I posted the link on my blog,so you can check it out, its pretty cool!
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I’ve been outta the loop for a bit.
Congrats on making alltop! Now we can both look around at the peons below us and laugh in their general direction!
Hi David, I came across your blog from a couple of comments on DGM, the ‘tell us your blog’ one and the one where you delivered a piece of your mind. ;0)
It’s nice to have another blog I can read up and see what this dad life could entail.
From a fellow Alltop-er “Dad”, which is quite amazing, as I’m not yet one.
Cheers.
X4NR - love the little sperms swimming on top of your blog’s front page! Congrats on impending fatherhood. I spoke out of place on DGM, and just put up an apology: http://dadshouseblog.com/2008/04/08/sorry-i-made-dadgonemad-madder/
Thanks for checking in - David
Hi David,
I actually agree 100% with what you had to say.
When I hear people talking about ‘dad babysitting’ it drives me batty.
It just didn’t really apply in that particular place lol.
fyi - your congrats are premature, there is no impending fatherhood. hurdles, hurdles, hurdles.
Cheers
Xbox - okay, I get it now. Your post here is HILARIOUS: http://xbox4nappyrash.blogspot.com/2008/04/return-of-sperm-runner-this-time-its.html
I’ll definitely be back for more.