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March 30, 2003 12:31 AM
Today's unexpected Joys: The weather!! Fucking beautiful!! Watching re-runs of The Newlywed Game on the Game Show Network. I know the seventies were cheesy and backward, but watching these fresh-faced, upbeat, less-than-perfect-looking couples frankly and guiltlessly discussing their sex lives and relationship dynamics . . . I wonder . . . has our "cooler, more sexually and culturally aware" society gotten perhaps a little overly self-conscious, or even - dare I say - pretentious in its public discourse? Finding $100 in an old Christmas card that I completely forgot about. Finding a copy of a letter I wrote twelve years ago to a friend, Rona Figueroa. We had both just started college, and neither of us was very sure where our lives were going. I promised her in that letter that I would never "grow up." I'm proud to be able to say that I've kept that promise. (A few months after I sent her that letter, she was "discovered" and became a big, fabulous Broadway Star . . . giving our high school production of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" the great distinction of being listed as a credit in the program of a Broadway show! I should try to track her down . . . send her a copy of the letter . . . see how she's doing these days . . . see if she's grown up.) Today's unexpected Terrors: Seeing a commercial that described a maxi-pad as being "More secure than an e-mail password." Whaaaat? Hearing a "news update" about THE WAR on an all-music radio station, and feeling disconnected and removed and generally apathetic . . . like it was the new season of Survivor, and I missed the first few episodes, so, you know, what's the point of trying to follow it now? |
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