Thinking about Thinking about Posting

Things I've thought about posting on:

1. An article forthcoming in Rolling Stone which was originally going to talk a bit about Kirk but has decided to concentrate on the Manelick case instead (which is understandable). Conclusion? Eh, not so much. But I'll try and post the issue information when I know it so people who are interested can go buy a copy.

2. Job hunting - good times, and much more entertaining when done long distance. Conclusion? I'll post when a get a job. Anyone wanna hire me? I code! I design! I write! I market - oooh, just watch me brand...

3. Odd people seen while on the way to and from work. Conclusion? Now that is quality content!

I've always told my kids they can do just about anything non-permanent to themselves. Child Three has sported at least four hair colors at various times, and has had a semi-successful mohawk for a while (child 3 is cursed with floppy hair. It's very, very sad) . Child One was streaked with pink for a time and Child Two hopes to have bright red soon. I don't even break a sweat. Like I tell them, there's no other time in their lives when they can work so hard to look so stupid and be so utterly convinced they're cool. So the deal is, reversible? Fine, but nothing, absolutely nothing permanent can be done that can't be easily hidden, and nothing that could even possibly compromise health and safety. No eyebrow piercings, no nose rings or tongue studs. Sorry guys.

Some things make these things easier though. Like seeing the guy in Target who wasn't wearing his massive sized ear gauges. Ear gauges in? Scary goth punk man. Gauges out? Young guy with ear lobes that look like chicken butts. Really takes a lot of the edge off it somehow.

It's like the time I saw my friend's mom's tattoo. She had a dragon that wound around her calf - probably looked dead cool when she was eighteen. Trouble is, by the time I saw it, she was around sixty. To this day I can't see a tramp stamp without remembering that sad, toothless, crepey dragon. But I never was tempted to get a tattoo.

Usually the people I see around work are pretty young, so even if they have misspelled body art, or are trying desperately to pull off a convincing set of dreadlocks on top of a freshly scrubbed pale pink face, there's something about being young that makes it, well not attractive, but sort of touching. However, walking past the Einstein's Bagels I got a shocking look at what happened to all those punk rockers from the seventies who didn't die tragically young. There was so much wrong there... and I think really the internet should be spared most of it... but I did have one question answered -

- yes, nose piercings do stretch with age.