He's adorable, Jessica.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Sep 08, 2007 3:28:57 pm PDT #9248 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Susan W. - Sep 08, 2007 3:55:57 pm PDT #9249 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
You know the American Girl series, the books and dolls about girls growing up at various points in American history? The Revolution, homesteading on the prairie, WWII, and the like?
The latest entry is set in 1974: [link]
I was three that year.
I'm history.
Glamcookie - Sep 08, 2007 3:56:19 pm PDT #9250 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Baby D is so damned sugar!
shrift - Sep 08, 2007 4:03:02 pm PDT #9251 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
And now I'm in third set of Federer v. Davydenko and I'm STILL going OMGWTF.
meara - Sep 08, 2007 4:07:15 pm PDT #9252 of 10001
OMG, a 1974 American Girl? That does seem very wrong.
askye - Sep 08, 2007 4:10:13 pm PDT #9253 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Baby D is soo adorable! I love the baby toes picture.
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 4:12:03 pm PDT #9254 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
1974?
I've been growing increasingly more annoyed with the American Girl stuff since it got bought out by Mattel. It seems to be way more about the American Girl brand now than about the stories and the dolls.
sumi - Sep 08, 2007 4:19:06 pm PDT #9255 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
1974??
So, so, wrong.
I'm not even going to say how old I was then.
Shrift - isn't it just mindboggling? I mean, can't they win on their own serve? Must they break and then the other guy breaks?
Pix - Sep 08, 2007 4:21:11 pm PDT #9256 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Though, to be fair, the 1970s were a pivotal time for women in America, and most young women/girls today truly don't have a clue about it.
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 4:29:12 pm PDT #9257 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Though, to be fair, the 1970s were a pivotal time for women in America, and most young women/girls today truly don't have a clue about it.
Looks like the basic plot of the first book is Julie dealing with her parents' divorce and having to go to a new school, and that she wants to play on the school basketball team and the coach says she can't because she's a girl. Could be interesting.
They seem to be focusing a whole lot more on the twentieth-century ones lately. They discontinued the 1774 character for a while, and the newest dolls they've introduced have been 1904, 1934, 1944, and now 1974. They've got a fairly wide swath of late 18th/early 19th century that they don't cover at all. I think that they've got 1774 and then 1854.
edit: Nope, I was wrong. Just checked, and they've got Josefina in 1824.