I’m David Vienna, father of twin boys. Their names are Wyatt and Boone and, yes, they’re as awesome as you think.Tumblr (3.0; @thedaddycomplex)http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mammalingo.tumblr.com/post/53313297664/the-7-most-annoying-people-you-will-meet-when-pregnant">mammalingo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I was pregnant once. Three times actually. And, seriously, there are some really annoying people out there. Yes, most people are awesome. But some are just really, really annoying — and I wrote about those folks for the Huffington Post today. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-sher/the-seven-annoying-people-youll-meet-when-pregnant_b_3400416.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&amp;ir=Parents" title="Huffington Post">If you’d like to study, here’s the link</a>. Test tomorrow! </p> </blockquote>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53314642903http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53314642903Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:35:26 -0700parentingmotherhoodpregnancybabymom<p>To get them back at them for being so out of touch and making dads look incompetent in TV shows and movies, let&#8217;s all kick in money for a movie that makes studio execs and producers look like total clueless jackasses. That&#8217;ll show &#8216;em! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Ha!-ha!&#8230; Ha ha ha&#8230; heh&#8230; Wait&#8230; Fuck.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53305702879http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53305702879Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:30:17 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadmoviesTV<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0OsLcxF1ymc?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/fwb">More <em>Fighting with Babies</em>.</a></p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53298966623http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53298966623Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:15 -0700fatherhoodparentingmuppetspuppetsdad<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5bc8939f53ef927cdba66318574c39f3/tumblr_molabyNhkv1rk734mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sorayaroberts.tumblr.com/post/53273746286/my-daily-beast-piece-on-the-unmotivated">sorayaroberts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <div> <p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/18/pop-culture-s-house-husbands-lag-behind-the-reality-in-american-homes.html">My <em>Daily Beast</em> piece on the unmotivated, emasculated and moronic stay-at-home dads in pop culture, who look nothing like reality.</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>THANK YOU!</p> <p>How many of us have been saying this for years? I’m gonna say… probably all of us.</p> <p>I even wrote a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-vienna/new-parents_b_1921665.html">similar article for Huffington Post</a> a while ago, in which I screamed from Mt. Huffington that the bumbling dad character is unrealistic. (Actually, my arguement was moms are bumbling, too, but you know what I mean.) Of course, my piece was just a whiny rant.</p> <p>This <em>Daily Beast</em> article by Soraya Roberts, however, uses actual Census data and things like facts to make the point that, when it comes to depicting fathers, pop culture is what’s bumbling.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53289510247http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53289510247Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:45:23 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadnewspop culture<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/35c313ec116ba64d9785613c8de0c0d1/tumblr_mokmrvY0191qzknwuo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eea51bedfb65ad35535c57b150516e5e/tumblr_mokmrvY0191qzknwuo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e9a1190842aa3e2c95a65d15dfb7279b/tumblr_mokmrvY0191qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5a1430888ebdcdd935681e0008b0134d/tumblr_mokmrvY0191qzknwuo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7982fd0ab56b6bf9b1675b348cd236b7/tumblr_mokmrvY0191qzknwuo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53286567678http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53286567678Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:21 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadkidsfamily<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7ad207e6b591e7e7e7ca41afc9531af8/tumblr_mojsp07gNK1soeeozo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jellyrolland.tumblr.com/post/53206848556/our-prayers-have-been-answered">jellyrolland</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED</p> </blockquote> <p>Most people pray for, like, world peace. But a jug of fruit punch is good, too.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53231051992http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53231051992Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:05:31 -0700prioritieswe haz dem<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lettersforharper.tumblr.com/post/53211552525/if-and-then">lettersforharper</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you are not married then do not give marriage advice.</p> <p>If you are not a parent then don’t give parenting advice.</p> </blockquote> <p>This times a million.</p> <p>When something like this gets posted, invariably people say &#8220;Yes, but there&#8217;s nothing wrong with offering perspective&#8221; or some similar defense.</p> <p>You know what? There <em>is</em> something wrong with offering perspective because &#8220;perspective,&#8221; by definition, means you&#8217;re looking at something, not <em>being</em> that something.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53217326732http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53217326732Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:00:27 -0700fatherhoodparentingmotherhooddadmom<a href="http://beastbestawards.thedailybeast.com/#twitter-family">Newsweek/Daily Beast's BeastBest Awards - Best Family Twitterers</a>: <p>Holy shit.</p> <p><a href="http://beastbestawards.thedailybeast.com/#twitter-family">This. Just. Happened.</a></p> <p><img height="169" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3y0ekWQz81r3zat8.gif" width="300"/></p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53210797079http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53210797079Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:00 -0700fatherhoodparentingnewsweekthedailybeast<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/369aaf5f834788c5c17b8494a3dd372e/tumblr_mojrzfg9zD1qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I was going to post a bunch of pics from our Father’s Day thing, but decided on this instead.</p> <p>(By the way, this picture was not posed. I asked them to hold still so I could get a shot, but they kept moving. This was the result.)</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53205830576http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53205830576Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:16:00 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadtwinsfamily<p>We did have fun, thanks. We hit the abandoned zoo at Griffith Park, which was fun and inspired a full day of “our kids should be caged” jokes. Those never get old.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53172852196http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53172852196Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:49:06 -0700<p>Thanks! I had a good one. And glad you like the site. I think it’s gotten much better since I stopped writing solely about poop.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53172840673http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53172840673Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:48:55 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ebbcf883306774fb4b9db1572b792533/tumblr_moiglngZp51qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Here you see the Lost Boys exploring the abandoned zoo in Griffith Park.</p> <p>We had a Father’s Day picnic with a few other friends there. All of our boys pretended to be lions and gorillas in the empty paddocks.</p> <p>My wife and I brought a pitcher of mimosas and, after we’d polished it off, realized we should’ve offered some to the other parents.</p> <p>Oops.</p> <p>Anyway, prepare yourself for a few pics from this outing tomorrow.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53153636170http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53153636170Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:21:41 -0700fatherhoodparentingfather's daylos angelesdad<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/307d279790f4e02fb9e849be12077b1e/tumblr_mohydg4RI01qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My wife knows me well. Awesome Father’s Day gift.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53124758009http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53124758009Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:39:16 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadfather's daybourbon<p>Thanks!… unless you mean like how I usually inspire other people to punch me in the face.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53122114894http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53122114894Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:00:10 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/22ee33a31cedf0f3fc2e084d1c9e6e07/tumblr_mof2m9LPGb1rw9dz1o1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f4d7aa9faefd3d0ff834328d11203e39/tumblr_mof2m9LPGb1rw9dz1o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://awkward-elevator.tumblr.com/post/53030471815/happy-f-day">awkward-elevator</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Happy F-Day</p> </blockquote> <p>Batman HATES Father’s Day.</p> <p>To any dads out there who are also <em>not</em> Batman, happy Father’s Day.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53118281277http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53118281277Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:00:11 -0700father's daybatmanfatherhoodparentingdad<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i-1Z4oVQYdw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>You’ve still got time to run out and grab that last-minute gift for the dad in your life. What could that gift possibly be, you ask? Two words: Whiskey…</p> <p>Okay. Just one word.</p> <p>Sorry.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53076431861http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53076431861Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:05:12 -0700whiskeydadswhiskeyfather's dayfatherhooddad<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/11a76565d556f3d2972dacabff5d9c3a/tumblr_mogn45E8rK1qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Did you spend your afternoon making a fucking magnificent blanket fort? No? Just us then?</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53074615100http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53074615100Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:38:18 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadkidsfamilyMe: Anything I can do to help?<br /> Wife: Nope, just go hang out with the boys, make sure they haven't fallen out a window or something.<br /> Me: Okay. If they have, maybe we could watch a movie.<br /> Wife: Sure.http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53066542454http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53066542454Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:35:11 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadfamilymotherhood<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e68a409fed8045880260bec8417b6de1/tumblr_mofukeOQln1qewacoo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba38fbe2615921adb4a63aeb21a886db/tumblr_mofukeOQln1qewacoo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/97346a1a0b96a7b5c7bca3d39fc3036b/tumblr_mofukeOQln1qewacoo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/177c12c8db477ee45a4308c2b0ca241b/tumblr_mofukeOQln1qewacoo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53050807564http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53050807564Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:20:24 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadfather's dayfather<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4dfd58c4048e4f48c8acc38af03f1c1b/tumblr_mogaulzjaB1qzknwuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>After an epic adventure this morning, we remember the fallen.</p>http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53046457978http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/53046457978Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:13:33 -0700fatherhoodparentingdadkidsfamily