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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 08:37 pm (UTC)Not so much that some men are using hair product. Whatever. I'm not exactly sure why this should be a big deal, actually. Then again I have strange ideas about masculinity and femininity, like that it's not about what you seem like on the outside, but who you are on the inside. And that everyone has both qualities in them and that people shouldn't be polarized on the basis of gender. *sigh*
I think I'm also appalled at the idea of paying $135 for a pair of jeans, even in New York. Then again, I haven't bought a new pair of jeans in years (by new, I mean actually new and not from a thrift store).
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Date: 2003-06-23 07:10 am (UTC)