Ron Mattocks
- Location
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Birthday
- April 17
- Title
- Author / Social Media Professional
- Company
- Clark Kent's Lunchbox
- Bio
- Author, comic nerd, history junkie, social media professional. I have 1 wife. I have 5 kids. We have issues. Therefore, I write.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The History of Fatherhood in
the United States
January 18, 2012 09:18AM - Is Newt Gingrich Right About
Why Kids Are Lazy?
December 08, 2011 09:43PM - Are Dad Bloggers Attacking
Father Stereotypes or
Windmills?
October 19, 2011 09:00AM - Occupy Wall Street & Reaction
to The Gilded Age
October 07, 2011 07:30AM - Glee Sectionals: McKinley High
vs. St. Mary's Preparatory
School for Bad Life-Choices
Involving Kevin Federline
September 30, 2011 07:30AM
Ron Mattocks's Links
JANUARY 18, 2012 9:19AM
The History of Fatherhood in the United States
After reading author, Roman Krznaric’s essay on the history of the men as fathers, I decided to do a little research on my own; being a self-professed history nerd, I didn’t require much arm-twisting to do so either. Unlike Krznaric’s broader worldwid
… Read full post »
DECEMBER 8, 2011 9:43PM
Is Newt Gingrich Right About Why Kids Are Lazy?
Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich thinks poor kids are lazy and child labor laws are dumb. This controversial opinion is, of course, bereft of facts, but that’s Newt Gingrich’s schtick–provocation through outlandish remarks. His claim here is based i/… Read full post »
OCTOBER 19, 2011 9:00AM
Are Dad Bloggers Attacking Father Stereotypes or Windmills?
Editorial note: This is how I stir up crap right before Blog
World in a few weeks.
Remember Don Quixote, the middle-aged country gentlemen who
lost touch with reality and charged off to fight what he thought
were giants, but what were really windmills? (Do schools even teach
this anymore?)…
Saint Bradley-MartinIn February of 1897, rich New
York socialites, Bradley and Cornilia Martin, hosted an
over-the-top costume ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. What's the
significance behind this? For starters, the United States had been
suffering through a major economic depression that had begun/…
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 7:30AM
Glee Sectionals: McKinley High vs. St. Mary's Preparatory School for Bad Life-Choices Involving Kevin Federline
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 12:23PM
Let's Play: Recess Is More Than Play
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 9:00AM
Adventures In Going Gluten-Free
Not that I'm a Greek god, but at six-foot one, 190 pounds (give or take), my body's always been naturally fit -- until recently anyway. Over the course of the past 10/…
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 7:40AM
You Just Got "Rich Rolled"
You just got "Rich Rolled" ...Richard Marx that is.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 7:00AM
Country’s Top Dad Blogger Dead at Age 31
-by Jerry
Thompson
News of Kane's Death spread quickly via social
networksHOPE, Florida—The
country’s leading dad blogger, Charles F.
Kane, creator of the site, Citizen Dad, died
yesterday at his trailer home twenty-five northwest of Miami,
Florida. The official cause of death is unknown pending a/…
News of Kane's Death spread quickly via social
networksHOPE, Florida—The
country’s leading dad blogger, Charles F.
Kane, creator of the site, Citizen Dad, died
yesterday at his trailer home twenty-five northwest of Miami,
Florida. The official cause of death is unknown pending a/…
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 12:04PM
9/10/01
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 11:30AM
Ice Box Art: The Ratio of Hotness to Craziness and The Life-Cycle of Dating
What Kid Artwork Hangs from Clark Kent's Icebox?So
my wife walks into the office the other day and holds up these two
sheets of paper. I squint a bit, and lean forward in my chair.
What the... All I can make out is the color of the markers
that were used,/…
AUGUST 31, 2011 7:30AM
LA Beneficial
LA. They call it the “City of Angels.†I was there to find out if there were any. A troublemaking newshawk hunting and pecking his way along the dad blog beat. A newshawk in need of a story. Stories are funny. Stories can come out of nowhere and pop you in/…
AUGUST 26, 2011 7:30AM
Girlz Rulz: Wisdom to Live By
During the times when my sons are with me here in Texas there is a
reoccurring cycle of adjustment that takes place between them and
my stepdaughters. It starts off with a getting reacquainted sort of
honeymoon period. This lasts until anywhere from halfway during our
car ride home after picking…
AUGUST 11, 2011 11:38AM
A 5 Dollar Hit to Take Out Jiminy Cricket
AUGUST 4, 2011 12:58PM
Summer's Over
JULY 18, 2011 9:03AM
The One Thing My Kids Would Sacrifice Food, Air and a Virgin Cat For
JULY 8, 2011 11:04AM
Siblings
One of my favorite writing opportunities I'm lucky to be a part
of is for the Let's Play
community. Let's Play is a partnership between Dr Pepper/Snapple
and KaBOOM, a
non-profit organization dedicated to getting kids to play (and not
video games either). This is a short post about siblings at… Read full post »
JUNE 29, 2011 7:00AM
Fatherly Fear: Or It Ain't Easy Being Green
When it was announced that Warner Brothers would be making a Green Lantern movie, it was pretty much a given that I would be at one of the first showings. When it was announced that Ryan Reynolds had been tapped to play the lead role of Hal Jordan, it was also/…
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