More random thoughts
1. The new pope: Is it me, or is the statement "A dictatorship of reletivism" an oxymoron? Just asking. (Because it could be me...I could be an oxymoron.)
2. I recently started watching "Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit." I'm not sure why. Maybe I find it to be compelling, suspenseful television. Maybe I find watching "Cop Killer" Ice-T playing a cop oddly ironic (though he would be more believable if he didn't have that silly ponytail). Or maybe it's just because it's on all the time and if I'm just watching non-dvr'd TV I'll almost always come across an episode I haven't seen before.
3. Zoey talks so well these days, I can almost have complete conversations with her. Now, if she wants something, or wants me to do something, she just tells me. But sometimes she lies.
Me: "Zoey, are you going poo-poo?"
Zoey (squatting with scrunched up face): "No."
Me: "Are you sure?"
Ah well, we are not potty-trained yet. My mom says it'll be like a light going off, that one day she'll just suddenly get it. Right now, though, I think she just so loves wearing Elmo diapers that she's reluctant to give them up.
4. Her favorite doll is her Ernie doll. He goes everywhere. She walks around holding him by his little waist, so he can look out and see the world. It's like he walks around with her. It's very cute, but I dread the idea of losing this doll. One time, after my dad took her to a neighborhood park, Ernie got lost. We went all over their house yelling "Ernie, where are you?" But he didn't answer. I finally went back to the park, which was full of after-school program kids at the time. I had horrific images in my head of third-grade boys using him as a football. But Ernie was no football. I found him right away, face down in the street next to the curb. Such a sad sight, like he'd passed out after a long, drunken night of doing X and poppers at a gay disco. Zoey didn't care; she took him back right away and the tears stopped. I just can't say the same for Bert.
2. I recently started watching "Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit." I'm not sure why. Maybe I find it to be compelling, suspenseful television. Maybe I find watching "Cop Killer" Ice-T playing a cop oddly ironic (though he would be more believable if he didn't have that silly ponytail). Or maybe it's just because it's on all the time and if I'm just watching non-dvr'd TV I'll almost always come across an episode I haven't seen before.
3. Zoey talks so well these days, I can almost have complete conversations with her. Now, if she wants something, or wants me to do something, she just tells me. But sometimes she lies.
Me: "Zoey, are you going poo-poo?"
Zoey (squatting with scrunched up face): "No."
Me: "Are you sure?"
Ah well, we are not potty-trained yet. My mom says it'll be like a light going off, that one day she'll just suddenly get it. Right now, though, I think she just so loves wearing Elmo diapers that she's reluctant to give them up.
4. Her favorite doll is her Ernie doll. He goes everywhere. She walks around holding him by his little waist, so he can look out and see the world. It's like he walks around with her. It's very cute, but I dread the idea of losing this doll. One time, after my dad took her to a neighborhood park, Ernie got lost. We went all over their house yelling "Ernie, where are you?" But he didn't answer. I finally went back to the park, which was full of after-school program kids at the time. I had horrific images in my head of third-grade boys using him as a football. But Ernie was no football. I found him right away, face down in the street next to the curb. Such a sad sight, like he'd passed out after a long, drunken night of doing X and poppers at a gay disco. Zoey didn't care; she took him back right away and the tears stopped. I just can't say the same for Bert.
2 Comments:
oh! i am all over this new pope.. i've been readig up too.
he chose his name bc benedictine was supp. a good listener, but if he would just listen to himself!!!
he says turkey shoudnt be EU bc it's muslim and europe is a "cultural definition" not "geographical" one. but this guy came from nazi-germany and even defected bc he didnt agree with the war, so wouldnt he be sensitive to not giving a people limited privelege or access because of their religion? what about muslims that currently live in the EU? should they not be accepted into the EU too? hypocrite!
he would have a much stronger leg to stand on if his anti-turkey sentiment had more to do with their refusal to acknowledge the armenian genocide!!!
there, that felt GOOOD to get off my chest. bb
y'all might appreciate the commentary in the latest New Yorker on this here Pope
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050502ta_talk_kramer
"In his homily to his fellow-cardinals, on the first morning of their conclave, Cardinal Ratzinger had warned that modern society was threatened by a “dictatorship of relativism.” But it might have been more accurate to say that it is threatened by a dictatorship of absolutisms, including his own. "
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