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Jun. 22nd, 2003 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmNow that you're a target marketing demographic, it's okay...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/fashion/22METR.html?8hpist
As ever, the above is offered with a pointed lack of commentary.
_and_ I have a billion thoughts on the new HP, but I'm trying not to write a big essay about it until I've actually finished the book. It is, though, exceptionally weird reading something about childhood that is so punching my buttons, while rehearsing a play in which I play a third grader, and rehearsing said play through a seemingly endless series of improvs in which it turns out that my kid does math the fastest and never gets invited to birthday parties.
Actually, I should add that one of the challenges of this play for me is that we're assuming certain common kid experiences that I haven't had -- such as that we're set in a suburban school where kids take the school bus. Additionally the environment is coed. I haven't the faintest idea what any of those things are like for a child, and aside from it being an acting challenge, it brings home for me how a lot of the most mundane things in the world, have made me so incredibly fundamentally different from other people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/fashion/22METR.html?8hpist
As ever, the above is offered with a pointed lack of commentary.
_and_ I have a billion thoughts on the new HP, but I'm trying not to write a big essay about it until I've actually finished the book. It is, though, exceptionally weird reading something about childhood that is so punching my buttons, while rehearsing a play in which I play a third grader, and rehearsing said play through a seemingly endless series of improvs in which it turns out that my kid does math the fastest and never gets invited to birthday parties.
Actually, I should add that one of the challenges of this play for me is that we're assuming certain common kid experiences that I haven't had -- such as that we're set in a suburban school where kids take the school bus. Additionally the environment is coed. I haven't the faintest idea what any of those things are like for a child, and aside from it being an acting challenge, it brings home for me how a lot of the most mundane things in the world, have made me so incredibly fundamentally different from other people.
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Date: 2003-06-22 05:06 pm (UTC)I'm kind of reminded of American Psycho all over again. :)
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Date: 2003-06-22 05:15 pm (UTC)