When I Am Old I Shall Wear Combat Boots
This is what I will look like when I’m old. It is for a contest thing from artist Phil McAndrew that ends this Friday. Note: the collared shirt, combat boots, bag o’ books (and comics), cityscape, and white streak in my hair (ala Susan Sontag or Rogue, take your pick).
I finally saw Teeth! Holy crap it was fantastic. I’m as big a fan of manchild movies as anyone else, but sometimes it seems like that’s the only viewpoint on screen these days. So it’s exciting when a well-made feminist flick about vagina dentata gets thrown into the mix.
There’s a lot more I’d like to say about Teeth, and our culture’s tendency towards fear and disgust when it comes to vaginas…but perhaps for once I’ll refrain from posting my thoughts on the internet. Anyway, I recommend the film.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I see this and I’m trying to decide what it says about your old self that your bag is behind you. That you’re freakin’ out of it and don’t even realize you dropped your bag back there. That it’s going to be so hard to bend over, you don’t even care? That you don’t become paranoid and trust that you can leave a bag a little over there in this benevolent society? But a society without benches in the places you wait?
I forgot about wanting to see Teeth. Thank you.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Tabitha: I enjoy your speculation on this drawing far more than my parents, which was:
“What! That is NOT what you are going to look like when you are old! You are NOT going to let yourself get that fat!”
June 27th, 2009 at 9:38 am
My sister and I have always had a plan to wear overalls and smoke cigarettes when we are old. Don’t know how this figures in. My footwear of choice will always be flip-flops with plastic flowers on them…the cheap kind I used to get at Ben Franklin.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
WELL, mom, I guess you already ARE old, because I caught you smoking cigarettes with Moshe last week. It’s gonna be tough to find more Ben Franklin flip-flops, though…
July 29th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Though I doubt that you’ll look like this, I can confidently say that I have PROBABLY seen this exact person wandering a bus stop around Franklin. But they probably had a windbreaker and uneven socks.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Role model! That person is a ROLE MODEL.