Thursday, May 19, 2011

Congratulations Drug Addled Youth!

Today you’re just a couple of drug addled teens having the time of your life.

“Phewwwww!” you’ll breathe to yourself, running with arms outstretched back and forth across your parent’s backyard. “I’m an airplane!”

Your buddy Tommy will laugh.

“Yeah right!” he’ll say. Then he’ll take some more children’s aspirin and you’ll totally turn into an airplane for him too and he’ll break into your dad’s shed and grab a hammer and murder you with it.

Your story will become a cautionary tale for the abuse of children’s aspiring for decades to come. Although you’ll be a black girl and Tommy will be a racist little white boy, instead of Tommy being Hispanic and you being Jewish and both of you being kind of gay for each other.

That’s how history works, though. Sometimes it gets the details wrong.

Congratulations Drug Addled Youth!

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