Wednesday, December 24, 2003
did i just say you can't go home again?
oh, yeah. AND: my mom took me to the mall with her to do some last minute stuff, and then walked me around the bon marche homestore picking up MULTIPLE SPECIFIC THINGS that were each the TRASHIEST THING IN THE STORE, saying, "isn't this cute?"
one of them was a snowglobe with jesus and mary and joseph in it. i said, pained: "mom, that's just wrong." she demanded to know why. "well, it's sort of a dopey, indiscriminate mixing of the secular and the sacred. you know? there weren't, like, snowmen in bethlehem at the time of the first noel."
she actually stuck out her tongue at me and said, with a voice full of fourth grade, "how do you know? where you there?"
one of them was a snowglobe with jesus and mary and joseph in it. i said, pained: "mom, that's just wrong." she demanded to know why. "well, it's sort of a dopey, indiscriminate mixing of the secular and the sacred. you know? there weren't, like, snowmen in bethlehem at the time of the first noel."
she actually stuck out her tongue at me and said, with a voice full of fourth grade, "how do you know? where you there?"
