Can you ask your father anything? Absolutely.
There is a school of thought that he is getting dumber with age (although most fathers insist the correct explanation is "dumber with children"). While you are able to ask him anything — or ask anything about him — beware, as the folks on This American Life didn't until it was too late, of what you might find out.
From the fantasy corner of daddyuniverse comes the notion of "complete control." As in, a judge has granted Jamie Spears "indefinite [and complete] control" over daughter Britney's affairs. As if ....
There's also the powerplay of rapper Lil Wayne — odist of "Like Father Like Son" with its aggressively mellifluous warblings, repetitions and curses — who announces the birth of his second child, boy Dwayne Carter III, without press getting wind of the mum's ID. In glorious street bragadaccio he acts as if he needs no woman, not even to give birth to his child.
It is the sort of dream that no doubt occurs to many of the disenfranchised dads who are the target audience of the San Jose radio program, Fathers are Forever. The show, hosted by one divorced and one married father, takes calls, grill guests and promotes ideas that can be used by the XY chromosomed to be a large part of their childrens' lives.
And dads being integral to their kids lives even down to making lunches or setting up play dates, despite what so many seem to think, is not a fantasy nor intentionally a comedy. Although I guess we can't rule out the idea as inspiration for a big budget Sci-Fi father-son comedy by director Kevin Smith?
