On 8/17/06, eleanorkeyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay Cats and Kittens, here's the plan:
>
> Little Miss Sunshine, AFI Silver, Sunday, 4:50pm. AFI generally isn't
> crowded for regular movies so we should be able to find each other.
> I'm afraid I will not be bringing a "Poop" sign, as I am somewhat
> acquainted with the manager there and would like to avoid being the
> subject of weird, false rumours (weird, true rumours are perfectly
> acceptable, however). How 'bout I wear my navy Monty Python Ministry
> of Silly Walks shirt instead? Okey dokey then.
I will try to make it (and I have a perfectly serviceable WC sign,
featuring the features of our own Gene Weingarten); unfortunately, I
have a meeting in Laurel (no relation to Burtonsville) at 2, so
depending on acts of God and meeting members' volubility, I may be
delayed.
>
> Oh, and my mother is now insisting that I read her racist children's
> literature. How do you explain to a severely brain-damaged woman that
> what seemed like a harmless fantasy novel in the 1950s reads like KKK
> propaganda today? Actually, I think she knows EXACTLY how it comes
> across and she's just messing with me. It's devious revenge is what
> it is. Damn parents.
Little Black Sambo is NOTHING to Rudyard Kipling--have you ever READ
How the Leopard Got His Spots? But my father used to call me Taffy,
so I still have a soft spot for Kiplingmania.
Stephanie
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