Today I helped a seven year old girl pick out her first pair of
glasses. She went with a plastic "Jelly Bean" frame in brown. She was
hauling around a thick book with a cover more pink than anything else
pink I've ever seen before. The book was based on a Disney TV show. I
read a page aloud to her in a funny voice to amuse us both and found
myselfintrigued by the on-goings of an all-girl teeny pop rock band.
She had to pry the book away from me while I snarled at her and bared
my teeth. It got sort of ugly.
Her sister, even younger and cuter, was wearing a fuzzy pink headband, as if single-handily keeping the 80's alive. She kept trying on sunglasses and babbling
about something called a Polly Pocket Princess. I can't imagine a
single sanitary reason you'd keep a princess in your pocket, but who
knows.
Life is full of surprises.
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About Me
- David Oppegaard
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- I am the author of And the Hills Opened Up, The Suicide Collectors, and Wormwood, Nevada.
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10 comments:
Tellon has passed 1,000 friends on MySpace!
MySpace is the ultimate grass roots marketing toy. Still, people are underestimating its power to get the word out...it's like a website times a thousand.
That's very sweet. Well, except the book hogging. Go get your own, mister.
Maybe Tellon's next flick should have him joining an all girl teenage rock band.
I'd like to talk to that little girl about keeping the '80s alive. I have had enough. ENOUGH!
No!
80s forever!
rand, maybe thta should be your next flick!
Aawww, David, you're such a softie.
sniff sniff.
Hmmm, maybe I should join a teenage girl rock band.
Lecherous Lex Ham and the Barely Legals.
I would buy your tour t-shirt, LHR.
heh heh. t- shirt.
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