April 2006 Archives

One of their favorite ways to demonstrate their dominance is for one of them to get in the other's face and assert, "Little girl, you be doing too much."

The other inevitably replies, "No little girl, you be doing too much."

The idea of 6-year-olds referring to each other as 'little girl' tickles me to no end.

In deference to her recent passing, Kathleen decided to teach her class about Rosa Parks. She hung up a picture of Ms. Parks and asked the class if they could identify her.

That's the woman who invented the perm!" one shouted.

"No stupid, that's the wife of the dude that had a dream," another one volunteered.

Finally, one particularly perceptive tot piped up, "That's the lady that was on the bus and then the white cops took her off with guns because the white people wanted to sit there."

Kathleen attempted to clarify the story when another student loudly volunteered, "White people be doing too much!"

Kathleen stood there for a moment, and then agreed. "Yes," she nodded, "sometimes white people do, in fact, do too much."

Interestingly enough, I regularly think about this. Or at least, when I hear a song that speaks to me in a certain way, I think this would be a good song to strip to. I'm not sure if this is due to my previous association with strippers and their clubs, or just some sort of deep-seated psychological issue, but nonetheless, this is how my mind works. Back in the day there used to be a strip club in San Francisco that had a large number of goth girls working there who would dance to songs by Sisters of Mercy and The Smiths. More than dancing, they would just mope onto stage, expose their bits and sulk off. Frankly, it was far more enticing than most of the pole gymnastics they were performing at other clubs.

Other songs to consider: Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard