Second, I’ve got an awesome announcement to make, but I’ll save that for the end of this post.

This might surprise some of you, but most of my readers are female. I haven’t done any research into this, I’m going straight off my instincts, judging from the comments and emails I get. It doesn’t surprise me, though.

Growing up, most of my friends were girls. Seeing that I was not a) scoring with these girls and b) not in the drama club, I was something of an anomaly in my school.

I just happened to click with girls better than boys. It put me in a unique position of knowing how both guys and girls tick and why they rarely tick at the same speed. Well, as much as a guy can hope to know how a woman ticks, anyway.

If only I’d thought to put out a book at the time or something, I’d be incredibly rich now like that little arrogant kid that recently wrote a book on how to talk to girls. What does he know about talking to girls? He’s like what, 11? Hell, I could’ve written a book on how to UNDERSTAND girls! My book would have been so much more awesome than his!

One of the comments I get most from new female readers is that they like my blog because it gives them a chance to see parenting from a man’s perspective.

Many women complain that the innermost thoughts of the men in their lives are a mystery to them. Chances are good that your guy’s innermost thoughts are a mystery to them, too. A lot of guys don’t like to examine their thoughts too closely. Now before you think I’m bagging on guys, I’m not. We have good reason to be like we are.

Now, here’s the secret about men

It’s not that men don’t like to talk about our thoughts, it’s just that we’ve learned that doing so usually leads to… more talking about our thoughts!

There’s only so much talking we can do before we realize we’re running around the same track over and over with no hope of getting off. We’d rather take action, even if we do so without much thought sometimes.

Women, on the other hand, loooove to talk!

Women can have the EXACT SAME CONVERSATION 200 times. In fact, I think they prefer to have the same conversation, rather than a new one. It’s as comfortable a routine as crying while eating a half gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream (a flavor which only women like, by the way). Especially if that conversation involves:

• why can’t they lose weight? (as they eat more ice cream)
• what a jerk their boyfriend is
• what a bitch (insert friend/frienemy/co-worker name here) is
• why won’t their boyfriend be less of a jerk?
• why their jerky boyfriend would rather hang out with his friends rather than her

Most guys on the other hand, don’t care to talk about things they have no control over. Especially when there’s a game on TV.

And in the days of 17 ESPN channels, there’s ALWAYS a game on TV.

Being in the position of having many female friends who wouldn’t sleep with me, we wound up talking. A lot. And I became sort of the Answer Guy to many of them. And ladies, there’s nothing more that a guy you won’t sleep with loves than being asked questions about other guys. Oh yeah.

Guys also came to me for advice when they didn’t know how to deal with the girls making their lives miserable.

And I always had the right answer. It’s one of the few talents I possess – always knowing what other people ought to do.

Of course, very few people actually heed my advice. Most people ask advice only to affirm the bad decision they’ve already chosen. Which means, of course, more conversations about the same damned things.

So, I figured as a service to both sexes, I would start answering questions for my readers. I’m going to call it Ask Blogger Dad. Sort of an advice column, but with a bit less cursing, and not nearly as cool as The (awesome) Blogess’s column.

So, if you have questions about anything, and want a sarcastic/and or a funny response, rather than real constructive  advice, comment here or send me an email at idrawcomics (at) gmail.com with “Ask Blogger Dad” as the subject line, and I just might answer it. If you comment here, I will use your name and url in the column. If you email me, you can specify if you want your name used.

Now, here’s the Big News.

I’ve been asked to write over at Chris Brogan’s Dad-O-Matic, a group blog with several awesome dads writing at it. I’m not sure if they recently lowered writing standards or if they actually like my stuff, but at any rate, they said I could write whatever I want.Well, probably not ANYTHING I want. But you get the idea.

So, I figured why not bring this new Ask Blogger Dad feature to their site?

If I get questions right away, I’ll post them this week and you’ll be the first to know when it goes live!

In other news…

Have you seen the re-design I did of Writer Dad’s site? Check it out. And while you’re at it, read his GREAT post on how to make your children better writers.

Collective Inkwell published the second installment of the vampire serial Available Darkness on Friday. If you missed part one, click here to catch up. We’re getting some great feedback.

Is this as good as it gets? Check out another unhappy comic for unhappy people over at IDrawComics which is probably why I’ll never get syndicated.

I got an award from the awesome Ribbon, which you can check out here. A huge thanks for the honor, Ribbon! I would post the image, but it’s got flowers, lots of pink flowers, and I think this post if this post gets an girlier, the other dads will likely point and laugh.

I’ve been meeting lots of cool new bloggers on Twitter. I’ve also had a lot of fun conversations the past week. I’ll post some highlights later in the week.

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