Make a Dad (MAD)

It's make a dad day.

Sorta outa Texas Shooter Jennings [Earlier: Tuned In] is releasing Waylon Forever, a duet album with son and band backing daddy Waylon, whose been gone (physically, not musically) since 2002.

Up in Calgary is the premiere of "Hockey Dad: A Play in Three Periods," the dramedy of a fictional pop discovering himself in the locker room the night of a father-daughter hockey game.

Coming in the spring — or sooner if the CW network has fielded too many failing shows in their fall lineup &mdas; is "Surviving Suburbia," a sit-com where stand-up smuttist Bob Saget plays dysfunctional dad (although married) of three instead of angelic dad (while single) of four as he did in "Full House."

Finally, waiting in Minnesota, are kids of all ages whose life will change if into their lives will come men who want to act like dads. The payoff for the men is the chance to make or (re)make their own lives and those of some children who can use father-like guidance and wisdom.

And so we go from make-a-dad to make-a-dad's-day.