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asato_muraki) wrote2009-01-21 05:28 pm
asato_muraki) wrote2009-01-21 05:28 pm
Kids are funny, man.
Last night, Big Boy played the following movie trailer on the Xbox Media Center Apple Movie Trailers Plug-in:
I'd already seen it, because I'm an animated film Geek, but it had not occurred to me that my 11 year old would dig it. It seems... dark. In any case, he immediately began jumping up and down and saying he wished September would hurry up and get here.
O_O
My little apple did not, in fact, fall far from the tree.
It reminds me of my odd little flights of fancy, when I was a kid. For example, I must have been twelve when I developed a crush on the Antichrist from the Omen films. I cannot remember why -- it wasn't a looks thing, based on the evidence, so I shall posit that it was an accent thing. And probably an unhealthy fascination with the more taboo elements of my religious upbringing. *smirk*
Some time after that, I fixed upon Margaret Thatcher as a sort of hero. It wasn't a political thing -- I had very little grasp of politics. I just remember seeing this woman with my grandmother's haircut shouting down a roomful of men in wigs, and thinking it looked like fun. >;D
I've no political aspirations, but of the opportunity to shout at a room full of men in wigs presents itself, I am SO there.
What brought this to mind was that a friend across the pond happened to offer good wishes to her American friends about the historic inauguration yesterday, and someone rather hurt her feelings by de-friending her on account of it.
Not that I equate her good wishes with Maggie Thatcher somehow becoming a role model to my blossoming inner dominatrix, just that things have a way of looking very different, depending on who you are and where you are.
And also that maybe people should lighten the frak up, if you'll pardon my Geeky profanity. ;) If Sarah Palin can go on TV (the Neil Boorts show, which I happened to see a bit of while at the in-laws' house) and say that, while she might not agree with Obama on policy, he was still her President and the fact of his his election was historic (and proof of what makes America great), and you can't say that, maybe you should ask yourself why not. I was brought up to respect the office, and I have done it for many years, even when the men themselves didn't seem to do so.
Not saying we have to agree. Disagreement is cool -- it's what makes us grow and learn, and what changes things for the better. Of course we all have the right to friend or unfriend as we like, and that is cool, too. I just find the negativity unnecessary. Hissy fits don't do anyone any good, is all I'm saying.
I'd already seen it, because I'm an animated film Geek, but it had not occurred to me that my 11 year old would dig it. It seems... dark. In any case, he immediately began jumping up and down and saying he wished September would hurry up and get here.
O_O
My little apple did not, in fact, fall far from the tree.
It reminds me of my odd little flights of fancy, when I was a kid. For example, I must have been twelve when I developed a crush on the Antichrist from the Omen films. I cannot remember why -- it wasn't a looks thing, based on the evidence, so I shall posit that it was an accent thing. And probably an unhealthy fascination with the more taboo elements of my religious upbringing. *smirk*
Some time after that, I fixed upon Margaret Thatcher as a sort of hero. It wasn't a political thing -- I had very little grasp of politics. I just remember seeing this woman with my grandmother's haircut shouting down a roomful of men in wigs, and thinking it looked like fun. >;D
I've no political aspirations, but of the opportunity to shout at a room full of men in wigs presents itself, I am SO there.
What brought this to mind was that a friend across the pond happened to offer good wishes to her American friends about the historic inauguration yesterday, and someone rather hurt her feelings by de-friending her on account of it.
Not that I equate her good wishes with Maggie Thatcher somehow becoming a role model to my blossoming inner dominatrix, just that things have a way of looking very different, depending on who you are and where you are.
And also that maybe people should lighten the frak up, if you'll pardon my Geeky profanity. ;) If Sarah Palin can go on TV (the Neil Boorts show, which I happened to see a bit of while at the in-laws' house) and say that, while she might not agree with Obama on policy, he was still her President and the fact of his his election was historic (and proof of what makes America great), and you can't say that, maybe you should ask yourself why not. I was brought up to respect the office, and I have done it for many years, even when the men themselves didn't seem to do so.
Not saying we have to agree. Disagreement is cool -- it's what makes us grow and learn, and what changes things for the better. Of course we all have the right to friend or unfriend as we like, and that is cool, too. I just find the negativity unnecessary. Hissy fits don't do anyone any good, is all I'm saying.