Dear Disney,
I realize that it's hard to get past 60 years of tradition but really, do you HAVE to kill the mother figure in every freaking movie you make? From Snow White to Bambi, to Ariel and Nemo it's been generation after generation of matricide. On behalf of the mothers of the world, and especially the under seven set, I beg you to show some imagination and find a new plot device.
Sincerely,
The woman trying to get her sobbing six-year old to sleep
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P.s. Aside from the whole matricide part, which is not really matricide since she never actually has children, Up is a pretty good movie. Of course it goes completely over the top at times, the good are sooo good and the bad are sooo bad (oh look the Doberman Pinscher is evil, quel surprise!). But the humor is quite good and some of the scenes are terribly beautiful. Plus Ed Asner rocks.
So here at the fly shop we get to see all kinds of interesting and pretty things beyond rods and reels and the kids really love it when the boxes of new stuff come in. They can see the inventory before it goes on the shelves. The fly tying stuff is the best, with its brightly-colored spools of thread, yarn and feathers.
The fly tying area is, in effect, the craft area for the guys (but don't call it that). Instead of scrap booking materials we have vices, thread, tools, feathers and um, a very small amount of animal fur - rabbit to be specific.
While all the fishing we do is catch and release and the flies we use are artificial, we do use real materials - like feathers - in the construction of the flies. Most of these materials are foraged, or are by-products of other commercial activities. Rarely is something ever killed in the name of fly fishing.
Yesterday Juju was in the store, "helping" the staff unpack a box of fly-tying materials when one of the staff members, Ange, decided to play a joke on her. She picked up a rabbit skin and put it in front of her face "Look, Juju! I'm two faced!"
Juju was very confused and her face showed it. She held out her hands to receive the rabbit skin, which, since it was a face, came complete with ears and whiskers. The fact that it didn't have eyes made it even more freaky, if you can imagine that. With eyes it almost could have been some kind of weird, pre-stuffed animal (we've been to Build-a-Bear, we know that some animals need stuffing). But there were no eyes.
Juju looked at the face, then looked at Ange, then back to the face. Finally, she spoke, and with all the disgusted, outraged bewilderment her six-year old voice could muster, she said "Who ARE you people?"
Indeed.
P.s., Thanks for the title Austin! ;-)
Now that Cassandre and her friends are all online they send the craziest stuff to each other. For a while they were sending these awful chain letters and I had to explain to Cassandre that no one would get hurt, she would not get her wish nor would she get rich (or go broke) in five days if she did not forward the awful letters to 16 gajillion of her friends within 48 hours. Happily that phase is over and now they are sending other, funnier stuff. I wish I could embed this below, but you'll have to click the link.
I know you don't clean your screen very often and it's really hard to clean the inside of it, so here
