The title comes from Lisa Bernard, a woman who lives 15 miles outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin. She's talking about the effect of industrial farming run-off on her tap water. I think I feel the same way about a lot of things. (Duhigg, Charles. "WI; Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells," New York Times, Sept 18, 2009.)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Teenage Leaps
The scene: the Internet. The highest-rated comment on Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" video: "Thumbs up if u want to be young forever" from halo3freakkk... he posted it 7 hours ago and it has 101 thumbs up at the moment.
I, for one, do not want to be young forever. I hope--number 1--to lose all of my hair on the top of my head so I don't have this weird tuft in the front that looks like a closely-sheared Koosh ball half-pokin' outta my forehead. Then, immediately then, I will grow the still-there sides out long because it's still thick and I'm bettin' it'll stay thick and maybe get cool and white if I look at enough scary masks in my lifetime.
Number 2--I wanna be a ephemera-kickin' adult with sweet bitter life lessons under and over my belt and experience cryin' and gettin' wiped-out upon by the Wave Pool Of Expectations so that my brain wires itself into looking at everything in a Cruising Above Perspective. Take some leaps that don't work out. Hit some bad ramps. Who wants to be Forever Potential? Who wants to be a ball at x height in a physics textbook word problem?
Without any further ado, Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," a song I truly like, even if "No regrets, just love" is a lyric I would never want my young daughter to take to heart while thickly sitting with her conniving and clueless boyfriend:
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