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Birthday parties cheese cake jelly fish boom!
--REM,It's The End of the World as We Know It

My daughter's first birthday was last week. The song was just a litany of pop culture references with a catchy tune. I never thought about its theme. Its shaped to sound like the rush of information we take in from the childhood through adolescence.

For an instant, the lyric became palpable. We just finished her birthday party, the confusion and exhileration of her experience is fresh on my mind. What will her first taste of cheesecake be like? For how many month's will it be her favorite dessert? Will an Aquarium trip leave her fascinated by jelly fish, or will finding a dead one on the beach disgust her?

What will be the boom?


Am I projecting too much on this poor defenseless song, or is this how we are supposed to treat our pop culture prayers?

--Evil B.
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2007.06.15
Despite the risk of running into "what are you trying to do, kill your mother?" I wanted to mention that at Mr. Ibis' birthday party we hosted, for a lark I got my toenails painted by felisdemens:


(I used nail polish remover the other day, fulfilling my vow to felisdemens to remove the color before it grew out too much.)

It was interesting gaging folks' reaction to it. Some positive, some much more iffy. It provoked more raised eyebrow than I expected... painted toenails are a bigger secondary signifier than I would have guessed, people don't see it as a gender-neutral form of decoration like they have with earrings.

PS On an unrelated (honest) note, the proposed MA constitutional amendment to limit the definition of marriage was defeated so it won't come to statewide ballot until at least 2012. Good.

Books of the Moment
Now Reading: "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Just Finished: "One Good Turn" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

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I will not be reading my mail forever.
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I just like the despair in the first line, undercut a bit by what follows.

Link of the Moment
Kids roaming ranges shrinking. Talks about some interesting possible mental health issues related to that. boingboing has a nice summary. I know I have a very iffy relationship with the great outdoors...