Kids these days!
Athena called me up yesterday just as I woke up to inform me that Freezepop was playing a free show on the Common in slightly less than 2 hours. We managed to mobilize in record time and get to the event, which was a gay youth pride rally, with 10 minutes to spare.
Oy, kids these days! Gay kids these days, especially! I’ve had many moments where I just don’t understand the youth of America, and this drove that home. First of all, let’s discuss fashion. Now I’m the last person on earth who should be called a fashion expert, but what’s with the 90s revival thing? All the kids were wearing a strange melange of 90s grunge, current hip hop fashion, all topped with brightly colored geometrically-patterned 80s wear.
Most of them had various pointy piercings sticking out of their cheeks and chins, and a good 1/4 were carrying around homemade signs advertising “free hugs” or “free kisses.” It’s not just about gay kids; it’s kids in general. Teenagers like this used to always come into the store–it’s just that I don’t think I’ve ever been in a crowd of this many so recently. Kids These Days seem to be begging to be noticed. I got those challenging stares that teenagers are so good at giving from everyone–the ones that say “go ahead, I DARE you to make fun of my weird appearance!” The problem was, everyone kind of looked the same. The only weird-looking kids were the ones without any piercings and with normal-colored hair!
Oy, back in my day… uh… yeah. Something.
On another note, I still can’t hear out of my right ear. People have been giving me advice of what substance to pour into my ear to melt the wax and get my hearing back (thanks, guys!). However, the problem is that the wax is stuck behind my eardrum. i remember having this problem with water years ago. The doctor said that because of my allergies the sinuses do something or other so that water and wax get trapped behind my eardrum, and there’s nothing I can really do about it without messing up my eardrum. So, I don’t want to pour anything into my ear, because it will probably just get stuck behind my eardrum with the rest of the stuff (I took a shower this morning and now have water rattling around in there as well). Argh.
