a plucky one
girls and their curls
Pluckers Wing Bar
31 August 2014
So “Trish” took this picture. She's one of Simone's other grandmothers; I'm not sure if it's Nicole's mother or stepmother. Super-spoiled, that's both of my nieces.
So this is what Simone Muad'Dib wanted for her eleventh birthday, chicken wings in a sports bar. My mother was perplexed (perhaps “dismayed” might be more accurate); I'm not sure why, because Simone is very much my kind of strange, and my mother's had forty-six years to adjust to it.
Ten years from now, religious indoctrination permitting, I will be taking her to her first bar. Believe the words of this accomplished gay uncle. Her first drag show will be an epic one, even if all the legendary girls that used to move in my circles have died in the past few years.
That other one, I don't know if I'll make it another eighteen years fully upright and with vision intact. She may well be fending for herself at that point.