I'll dropping Mini-pear at her 5 hour long play date in a little under an hour.

Then I will:
Hit the Indian grocery store
Hit a thrift store (or two)
Come home and work on a secret project

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We have not been watching much lately, other than Kid Nation (Mini-pear is slightly obsessed).  I recently discovered the groaning shelves of Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt at the library and send myself off to bed very early so I can read for the maximum possible amount of time before falling asleep.  However, the other night we decided to watch John Waters' Female Trouble.  It's been sitting in its little red Netflix envelope for almost a month.  I love John Waters.  Fine cinematography it's not, but it's good for a laugh (and a squirm) and an hour or so of knitting.  I usually forget most films quite soon after watching them, but Female Trouble will stick in my head a little longer than most, chiefly due to the scene where Divine gives birth on a skanky looking couch in a hallway.  We noticed right away that it was a real baby - a really little baby - a very close to newborn baby.  Which means that somewhere, in Baltimore, someone entrusted John Waters with their 2 week old baby.  And allowed him to smear it with ketchup or whatever low budget concoction (not that ketchup is big budget by any means) served as new born baby goop.  And then gave said baby to Divine and let him wrestle with it on a particularly nasty looking piece of furniture.

I want to do a follow up interview with the baby.

Comments

[Sarah K]

Ah, Baltimore! Doesn't surprise me a bit that John Waters found a wee baby--probably had a number of screen tests to choose from.
What stuck with me from Female Trouble was the castration scene. ((shiver))

[Kate]

I lost count how many times my kids watched that video of your family. I can't believe how perfectly your heads went with those characters. And I mean that completely as a compliment.

[Mandy]

That was sooo funny. Violet & I had a good laugh watching it. We enjoyed Kid Nation too. Interesting how some of those kids "hated" learning and yet what a very "unschooly" learning type of experience they had... Hope you enjoyed thrifting...when I'm walking again that'll be one of the first places I hit! : )
Hope you're all well and enjoying the Holidays, you'll have to come for another visit soon!
Mandy