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In a column called "Beating Joel Stein," (not, sadly, a how-to guide) the L.A. Times "humor" columnist introduces you to the finalist of his Comedy Special Olympics. Dude writes for Nerve and Babble and his piece is about circumcision. Sounds like a battle of equals to us. [LAT]

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creative urges

Colette Labouff Atkinson Birthed A Book, Not A Baby

Faced with looming ovary-shrivel in her late 30s, Colette Labouff Atkinson opted to finish her manuscript instead of using her creative energies to pop out a baby, she writes in an essay today on Babble. Fair enough! She even got a card from a friend: "Congratulations! It's a book!" Heh. Just one thing, though: where's Colette's book baby now? The internet doesn't seem to have heard of it, and there are no deals listed on Publisher's Marketplace. Maybe she put it up for adoption.

Paper Doll [Babble]

2:50 PM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Emily Gould
904 views, 9 comments

Latest by chucklives: making something isn't the same as selling or publishing; it's true. who cares if anyone writes anything longer than a comment on a site like this? no one cares if we make things. people only care if we have more »

the new model

Celebrity Babies Make Money

So Nerve—which used to be a sleek sexy magazine, and then split off a company that ran personal ads, and is also a place that gets snippy every time we mention them, by the way—is now all about the fetus and the newly post-fetal. It began with their new site Babble, "the magazine and community for the new urban parent," which I'm sure would make my mom, the old urban parent, stab someone if she saw it. But now it seems there's money in them thar baby bumps! Their celebrity baby blog FameCrawler is up and live. Nerve: They are New York. They went from screwing to breeding but like totally kept that edgy 'tude. Just like Amy Sohn! Also Drool.icio.us is their blog for "the top million baby products," if you were in need of a $390 crib in environmentally-safe fabrics or whatever. Not a good site for bitter childless fags to visit, apparently. For them, I hear, it can be a real downer.

3:53 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Choire
1,067 views, 11 comments

Latest by bimbassa: As an expectant mother, the idea of reading babble makes me want to be an unexpectant mother. more »

solipsism

Parenting Tips From Neal Pollack

Hey, do you have a burning question along the lines of "How do I best indoctrinate my son into good music? Do you have recommendations for good starter music? When is it too early to take a baby to see The Arcade Fire or Wilco?" Ask America's premiere hip-parenting expert Neal Pollack! His advice column, "Ask Alternadad," can be found on new parenting-blog agglomeration Offsprung, which is sort of like Babble, except it's not called Babble. Offsprung's slogan is "Your life didn't end when you became a parent." Heh. Oh, and for the record, here's Neal's deeply considered answer to the question above: "As far as music goes, Elijah received a heavy diet of punk rock early on, but that's because I was researching a book about the history of punk and playing in a band myself. While there's still plenty of rock in my rotation, I often spend the day listening to nothing but Miles Davis. Hell, I get excited when the theme to The Rockford Files comes up in my ITunes shuffle." Great advice. —Emily More »

11:04 AM on Tue May 15 2007
By Emily Gould
1,828 views, 31 comments

Latest by superba: @VenusCloacina: Shriek, yay St. Francis of Asshat, that is the best thing I've seen all day. Lord, make me an instrument of Thy exasperation; where there is pretension, let me sow disdain; where there is fakery, eye-rolling; where there is flashing of the more »

Maggie Gyllenhaal Nursing Pix Spark Momtroversy Searching for a handy way to tell whether or not you're an asshole? See which of the Babble commenters' reactions to this picture of Maggie Gyllenhaal providing her infant with nourishment you agree with!

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bugaboo

Status Stroller Inventor Says Naysayers Are Buggin'

Mad at the fancy strollers jamming up your sidewalk? Blame those damn babies and their fertility doctors, sure, but also blame Dutch designer Max Barenbrug, who invented the $800 Bugaboo. He doesn't think he did anything wrong, though. Today he refutes BusinessWeek's assertion that the uber-cool, all-terrain stroller is "the Mercedes-Benz of strollers: practical, built like a tank, and very expensive." More »

11:55 AM on Tue Apr 3 2007
By Emily Gould
7,133 views, 44 comments

new york times book review

Ada Calhoun Doesn't Stack Up Against Susan Seligson

In this coming Sunday's Book Review, none other than Babble headmistress Ada Calhoun got the enviable task of reviewing Susan Seligson's memoir Stacked, which we earlier wondered was an accurate description of her frontal assets. Anyway, Ada gets right to the point:
When I think about breasts—and as a DD-endowed editor of sex and parenting magazines currently breast-feeding a baby, that's quite often—I think about 'lactivist' organizations like La Leche League, dopey enterprises like 'Girls Gone Wild,' sublime celebrities like Dolly Parton and the blog-traffic-boosting potential of the red-carpet 'nip slip.'
Maybe she just wanted the assignment as an excuse to discuss her own rack? More »

3:30 PM on Fri Mar 30 2007
By Doree Shafrir
3,042 views, 5 comments

Latest by pinafore: How exactly does the NYTBR assign books? Is Calhoun on an Excel row with"babies, mammaries, lady bits, etc"? more »

babble

Toking While Pregs Q Justifies 'Babble' Existence

You know, we've been on the fence for a while about Babble. We mean, do 'cool, urban' parents really need another venue in which to, um, babble about their kids' precocity? They've already got Child, Cookie, and New York Magazine! But can you imagine any of those publications thoughtfully and unpuritanically answering a question from a pregnant mom who signs her letter "Sick of Being Smokeless"? Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris don't come up with a conclusive answer—in fact, it seems that there kinda isn't one—but they also don't shilly shriek about the effect that a few morning-sickness-supressing tugs on, say, a vaporizer might have on a developing fetus. Thanks, Babble—we think we might be able to someday bear children after all!

Just How Dangerous Is Smoking Pot While Pregnant? [Babble]

5:58 PM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Emily Gould
93 views, 3 comments

Latest by sinikl: i cannot believe i clicked on a babble link. i am now going to wash my cerebellum out with steel wool. more »

simon reynolds

The Ultimate Hipster Parents Tell All


Babble is trying to kill us. This video, of music critic Simon Reynolds and his wife, Village Voice culture editor Joy Press, is clearly the greatest success of their evil Manhattan Project. More »

5:02 PM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Doree Shafrir
7,865 views, 37 comments

babble

Childless Gal 'Obsessed' With Parenting Blogs

Tattooed East Village gal-writer J. L. Scott has an odd confession to make. Though she's single and kid-free at the ripe old age of 25—just two years before fertility begins to decline, she reminds us!—she still spends some of her "down time" at work getting all caught up in the parental dramas of people she doesn't know in the Midwest. "My favorite is Amber. She's my age, has two children and lives in the Midwest ... One of my other single-girl friends is obsessed with parenting blogs too, and we call each other if Amber's daughter has missed a developmental milestone." What a bizarre weirdo J. L. is, we thought, all judgmental-like. And then we realized that we were reading Babble. More »

10:48 AM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Emily Gould
1,078 views, 4 comments

Latest by mediahohoho: I don't know, I try looking at the kid sites, but then I get all hungry, and I just go looking for some food porn. more »

babble

If Only We'd Had a Breast Friend, Life Would've Been So Much Sweeter

For years, we've had the nagging feeling that something in our lives was missing. Something primordial, like we'd had a twin in the womb who died and our mother never told us. Then we read this:
When my son was a few months old and my dear, dear friend Anastasia was at the end of her pregnancy, she turned to me one day and said, "I have a request."
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4:50 PM on Thu Jan 25 2007
By Doree Shafrir
1,050 views, 28 comments

babble

'Babble' "Bad Parent" Is Actually A Bad Parent

We have mixed feelings about Babble's "Bad Parent" column. Sometimes it's wry, relatable, and laugh out loud hilarious. Other times it seriously creeps us the fuck out:
My husband and I marveled at [our older daughter's] exceptional development and obvious intelligence. And I think we marveled a bit at ourselves: good parenting, great DNA. Let's do this again, we decided.
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4:00 PM on Tue Jan 16 2007
By Emily Gould
214 views, 24 comments

steve almond

Steve Almond Gets All Sanctidaddious

On his Babble.com blog, bechesthaired author Steve Almond continues to unravel the mysteries of parenting. This week, he explores his guilt about inadvertently allowing his infant daughter to watch a shootout on The Wire:
it took watching my daughter's reaction to one show to recognize how completely horrible and anti-human the images are. I keep seeing her eyes blinking, her head snapping back, the twisting of her mouth into a terrified frown.
What was even scarier than her reaction, though, was our reaction. I mean, we tell ourselves we're these gentle citizens. But we didn't bat an eye watching people shoot each other. It's like our natural human reaction - to blink, to be fearful and upset - had been eroded. We've become so habituated to manufactured violence that we've forgotten what it's supposed to portray.
I know people get all hacked off when I talk politics on this blog, so I'll step away from the bullhorn. I realize, after all, that we can't shelter Josie from this country's popular culture forever. Eventually, she'll see lots and lots of fake murders.
But here's what I'm getting at: shouldn't we try?
Personally, if we were Steve Almond, we'd be more worried about what happens when the kid learns to read (particularly that one menstrual sex-heavy short story in My Life in Heavy Metal), but that's just us.

Baby Daddy: Baby's First Body Count [Babble]

9:20 AM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Emily Gould
530 views, 10 comments

Latest by caustin: What? An infant can't tell what the hell is on the TV. Oh no, "blinking eyes!" more »

steve almond

Steve Almond's Daddy Blog: Watch Your Back, Neal Pollack!

More in the "a generation of self-consumed male hipsters have suddenly discovered parenthood, and we'll be forced to listen to them for years on end" department: did you know that author Steve Almond, formerly content merely to sit back and vindictively sling mud at bloggers, now has a pro blog of his very own? It's on new Nerve spinoff site Babble, and it's exactly as self-conscious and caught up in the tired 'bragging about how cool I used to be and now I'm not, but it's ok because parenthood is a Higher Calling than coolness' thing as you'd expect it to be. Witness this scintillating tidbit: "So I guess that's what we're doing: we're enjoying this time. Not doing much work. Not going out at all. Just sitting around worshipping our kid. It rules." More »

11:00 AM on Tue Jan 2 2007
By Emily Gould
865 views, 13 comments

Latest by Trackback: AYO, EMOSOGYNY by Molly Lambert So we just now saw the 2007 edition of Forbes’s (really silly) yearly list of the Best Cities For Singles. more »

remainders

Remainders: We Liked Her Better in No Doubt

  • Gwen Stefani is one cold bitch. [TMZ]
  • Cookie is playing nice with Nerve's new baby website Babble, but let's see what happens on the playground when the kid gloves come off. [Cookie]
  • How to successfully take a cab to Brooklyn and either tip, or stiff, your driver. [Daily Slope]
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    7:17 PM on Wed Dec 13 2006
    By Doree Shafrir
    189 views, 4 comments

    babble

    'Babble' Publisher Doesn't Know When To Shut Up

    We're excited to start reading Nerve publisher Rufus Griscom (center)'s offshoot parenting web magazine, Babble, because it is obviously going to be sooo awesome. Just like Nerve, it aims to appeal to that elusive "urban hipster" readership. ("It's a very valuable psychographic in that the urban hipster lifestyle is something that a lot of people aspire to, even if they don't technically live it," says a marketing exec quoted in the article) and to shatter taboos. Like, for instance, the taboo around being a decent fucking human being:
    We've found that there are a lot of taboos around parenting, as much as we felt there were around sex when we launched Nerve," Mr. Griscom said. "There are a lot of things you can't say, like, 'We wanted a girl, but we got a boy.' Or, 'We're pregnant with a third, but we don't know if we want it.' "
    Babble, he says, will say it, and with wit and style. Or at least with irreverence.
    Yeah, fuck wit and style. When you're talking about the fact that you only want a third little Bugaboo-filler if it's a girl, it's better to just go for the straight-up irreverence.

    Healthy Babies Need Irony     [NYT]

    1:00 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006
    By Emily Gould
    288 views, 29 comments

    Latest by Steverino: "Man, you know what was even better than the sexual revolution of the 60s? The baby-hating revolution of the 00s. I mean, so what if we later had to blow his college savings on a psychiatrist? Those shit-smeared diapers demasculated more »