El Padre Libre!

One thing that always pisses me off is the declaration of any given celebrity to be a "great" father.  Now, don't get me wrong.  I don't disparage the celebrities themselves.  I'm sure many of them ARE great parents.

If anything, I blame the tabloids and celebrity publications for feeding the frenzy by continuing to annually publish lists of "Best Dad" polls.  The most  recent incarnation of such a poll just declared that Brad Pitt was Father of the Year. 

In declaring Mr. Pitt this year's honorary winner,  Life + Style editor in chief DEBRA BIRNBAUM decided Pitt was this year's (06) top dad, stating, "He even skipped the Cannes Film Festival in anticipation of Shiloh's birth!" 

Wow!  Talk about the ultimate parenting sacrifice!  Missing Cannes?  Are you fucking kidding me? 

I bring this all up because I was watching an old episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on my DVR the other day and caught the actor Jack Black talking about the recent birth of his son.  While watching him talk about his love of fatherhood, I realized once again why I've always loved Jack Black.  What other celebrity father would go on TV and say the following...

"I already love him and I've only known him for 4 days. It's automatic love.  Totally awesome!"

"He's a barfer.  Just like his daddy.  But he smells so damn good!  The barfs are like a little perfume.  The turds are like a delicious custard.  It's all just so good.  Really, the little things are the best."

"I'm doing all the things that I can do.  I do the diaper changing. Really, there's only two things.  There's the cleaning the ass and then the making sure he gets the foods from the boobies.  Otherwise, I just give the lovings.  The lovings.  The burpings.  It's pretty simple. I give him lovings.  That's my main job."

Jack Black...you're my kind of dude.  Let Brad Pitt, Heath Ledger & Ryan Phillippe have their public accolades from fluffy trash magazines.  You're a real dad and, for that, you're our DadCentric Dad of the Week!