"uncle shelby."
so i love shel silverstein. he's kinda like roal dahl in that he's sometimes crass & doesnt baby kids, except shel actually likes 'em.
[dahl was notorious for hating children.]
so i saw there was a fortieth anniversary copy of the giving tree for sale on amazon & that made me all nostalgiafaced. but i noticed out of like the thousand-or-so reviews, there was maybe three hundred just from angry moms who said the book wasn't watered down enough, that their kids were going to either become selfish & use people or become doormats for abusive spouses.
fuck. them. i bet they're gonna homeschool their kids well into high school. who the hell pussyfoots around making their kids sad, or at the very least thoughtful? who wants to be stuck reading shitty stories about cows on farms? i'm probably not going to become a mother, but at the very least i'll be getting my sister's kid a copy of this book if it's not something she & kate take from our family library. it's just one of those things; i am not going to pass on this disease of childhood monotony & political correctness.
so fighting the man aside, i'm buzzed on cold pills & i dont have any more classes for today, so i think it's naptime.
[dahl was notorious for hating children.]
so i saw there was a fortieth anniversary copy of the giving tree for sale on amazon & that made me all nostalgiafaced. but i noticed out of like the thousand-or-so reviews, there was maybe three hundred just from angry moms who said the book wasn't watered down enough, that their kids were going to either become selfish & use people or become doormats for abusive spouses.
fuck. them. i bet they're gonna homeschool their kids well into high school. who the hell pussyfoots around making their kids sad, or at the very least thoughtful? who wants to be stuck reading shitty stories about cows on farms? i'm probably not going to become a mother, but at the very least i'll be getting my sister's kid a copy of this book if it's not something she & kate take from our family library. it's just one of those things; i am not going to pass on this disease of childhood monotony & political correctness.
so fighting the man aside, i'm buzzed on cold pills & i dont have any more classes for today, so i think it's naptime.