Cat-friend vs. Dog-friend
What if your pets were human roommates? According to Boston comedy group FATAWESOME, it would totally be like this…
Get your own gigantic Totoro sleeping bag thing, and freak the fuck out with this fanboy
I linked to this humungus padded $200 Totoro sleeping bag a couple weeks ago on the the Offbeat Home Facebook page, but I didn’t realize that Laughing Squid had posted an amazing video of a complete Totoro fanboy named Joey Graceffa FREAKING THE FUCK OUT over getting his Totoro sleeping bed bag thing in the mail
Born at home: a home birth video
Georgia Brizuela recently filmed the home birth of baby Oliver — and she’s sharing the video with Offbeat Mama readers today.
This teeny tiny home in Nanaimo makes me want to be more awesome
This little video about a tiny home made by Canada’s TwelveCubed Homes is so incredibly inspiring. Best quote? “The secret to living in such a small space is not to have too much junk.” Wise words, even for those of us living in larger spaces.
I Miss Drugs: the domestic lives of aging hipsters
The video is part of a series from I Miss Drugs, a Twitter feed and a series of very short web videos that skewer the all-too-familiar-to-me life of the gently aging hipster. It reminds me a little bit of an update on Will Farrell’s infamous “Maybe later we’ll go to Bed Bath & Beyond” bit from Old School a decade ago… except of course they’re making jokes about Etsy and Trader Joe’s. Witness…
Mommy, why do the girl superhero costumes have skirts?
Avital, author of the blog The Mamafesto (among many other things!), had a conversation with her five-year-old son yesterday without even meaning to. They had just arrived back home after a family trip and had a stack of Halloween costume catalogs waiting for them. Her son started flipping through the pages and then made a surprising discovery that he had a lot of questions about.
Daddy Skills: the sweet-ass dad-rap video that will make your morning
From Sam Deezy (the dude who brought you Whole Foods Parking Lot) comes this video about the realities of modern fatherhood…
Time lapse video of a Halifax neighborhood painting an intersection/block partying it up
Recently, a neighborhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia got together to paint an intersection/have a block party. One of the people involved put together this time lapse video, and another neighborhood Homie let us in on the details, including an unexpected outcome from this community street art…