Among the obvious benefits of sitting on one's deck eating cereal while watching the sailboats on the water is overhearing the neighbors:
Father: Hey, hey! C'mere! This is a Rush song!
7-year-old Daughter: What?
Father: Remember we were talking about Rush earlier? This song starts out great!
An entirely different 7-year-old child asked me this week if I had any Black Sabbath. This is the same kid who, moments earlier, had neener-neener-ed the girls when I said that no girls could sit next to each other without his realizing that I had actually said so because I didn't want the boys to sit next to each other. (There were ten girls and four boys in the class.)
I'm supposed to be watching many plays by women right now, but instead I'm wondering how many pain-killers it might take to remove the ice-pick lodged at the base of my skull...and now I'm thinking about Leon Trotsky.
Posted by Ida at July 24, 2004 04:15 PMI've recently run into lots of kids with a heavy interest in old-school hard rock a la Sabbath AC/DC and Zeppelin. In every instance exposure to School of Rock has been involved.
Posted by: flamingbanjo at July 24, 2004 06:01 PMNo child left behind!
Posted by: ida at July 25, 2004 10:06 AMLeon Trotsky - ice pick, sounds like a Frida Kahlo moment to me...
Posted by: THE COMTE at July 26, 2004 12:37 PM