[Sca-cooks] EK 12th Night

[Laura C. Minnick]

Philip Troy wrote:

> Showing _your_ age??? It's not bad enough I got to walk, the other day,
> through the ghost-haunted halls of the old, former Stuyvesant High School in
> its current form as the Institute for Collaborative Edumacashun (a middle
> school) with my child in tow, showing him the room where Frank McCourt taught
> me to write, the foreign language department office I once filled through the
> keyhole with aerosol styrofoam, etc. It's been under two hours since my
> son, rummaging through boxes of mysterious ancient technology (from when CD's
> were black and very large), encountered _not only_ the Barnes & Barnes LP
> "Voobaha", source of the aforesaid "Fish Heads", but several audio cassettes
> of old Dr. Demento broadcasts.
>
> Gonna go count gray hairs now...

I don't want to hear it.

I have vinyl. The kids call them 'Mom's Antiques'. Especially my much
beloved Supertramp 'Breakfast in America', with the plastic still on. Do
you have 8-track-tapes? I don't -anymore.

What's more embarrassing is having the girls looking at some of my old
clothes (graduation dress from 8th grade, a couple of nice dresses I
made, bridesmaid dresss from my wedding) and they remark that they've
seen things like that in the vintage shop...

I have a 10x14 of me with impossibly thick eyebrows and Mall Hair. We
have a picture of JAmes with a jewfro (and he's not Jewish), a whisp of
a moustache, and the biggest, studliest Casio watch with extra buttons
that you've ever seen! And lets not talk about baby pictures...

Though for the day- I learned to write by reading good writing.....

'Lainie