Diapers
Friday October 24, 2025
Before Des, I had never changed a diaper.
I changed my first one around 2 in the morning in his first 24 hours of life in a dark hospital room, using my phone flashlight. It went fine.
Most of the time, changing his diaper isn’t a huge deal. Sometimes, he cries. Sometimes, he pinches the diaper between his legs and makes it difficult to remove the dirty diaper and clean his ass. Sometimes, he’s comfortable and compliant.
Every now and then, he screams like I’m subjecting him to war crimes. He’ll occasionally spit up on a new outfit and roll into it, so it gets in his hair. He’ll piss on himself, on me, on Lindsay. At special times, he’ll do all of these things at once and continue screaming incessantly until there’s a boob in his mouth.
Before Desmond was born, a lot of people expressed shock that I’d never changed a diaper and gave me these knowing looks like, “Wow, so you don’t know.” To which I replied, “What, like it’s hard?”
Most of the time, I stand by that. Occasionally, diaper changes nearly break me.
One diaper at a time.
One Hollywood: Some Like It Hot, Prime Video
More like Some Like It Nonconsensual. Holy shit, did this movie age poorly. It was shot at the Hotel Del Coronado, so it has a special place in the lore of Lindsay’s hometown, which is the only reason we decided to give it a go this week. Shockingly, a movie made in 1959 about events in 1929 is not exactly kind to women. Hell, it’s not exactly kind to Jack Lemmon, who is parried between abusive relationships with his sociopath “best friend” and the obsessive rich pervert who sexually harasses him so aggressively that he decides to marry the guy, even though “men don’t marry men.” There are funny moments, but it’s genuinely insane that there are people who want America to be more like the ‘50s. This movie has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes — nostalgia is a disease of the mind. Nobody’s perfect indeed.
One Book: “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton
My Grandpa John — who just turned 94 this week — just finished reading “The Age of Innocence,” not for the first time. I read this in college and kind of forgot it, but it’s a classic. So, if you want a classic, read it. I remember liking it more than Ethan Frome, Wharton’s only other work I’ve read, which was the object of much ridicule in high school because of its absolutely moronic ending.
One Song: “Diaper Time”
Nobody reads this far. Here’s the proof.
I can’t believe I just watched that.