Emmett's nudie phase came relatively late. Like...last year. He'd run up and down the hall in the buff yelling "Nudie Boy!" before I put him in the tub.

Ha!

Emmett went through a pretty long phase of liking fingernail polish. Lasted all the way to first grade and his first round of playground taunting.

I let Owen pick out what he wants to wear as long as it's weather-appropriate. I dread him getting teased but he seems pretty free of any sort of societal pressure right now.

Emmett went through a pretty long phase of liking fingernail polish. Lasted all the way to first grade and his first round of playground taunting.

Somewhere Mr. Jane is weeping and he doesn't know why.

Somewhere Mr. Jane is weeping and he doesn't know why.

At almost-eleven, Emmett is definitely at the age of strict gender boundaries. I expect it'll loosen up in the later teen years but right now only rock stars get to wear eyeliner. (In his view.)

Oh, I'm sure at 11 Mr. Jane thought the same thing.

Philly mini-f2f! I think d is still hiking back up the hill (sorry d!) but yay - phun! [link]

ps - self portraits is hard. we need more people ...

My friend painted a picture (Shag style) of her family before she had babies and while their dogs were alive plus the monkey they always thought they should have.

That's a lovely picture!

I gather that 'shag' has a meaning in this context other than 'have sex with', 'kind of carpet' or 'kind of dance'? Could anyone enlighten me, or shall I google?

I gather that 'shag' has a meaning in this context other than 'have sex with', 'kind of carpet' or 'kind of dance'? Could anyone enlighten me, or shall I google?

hahaha! Yes:

Shag = tiki-style artist.

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oh, wow, wikipediaing SHAG led me to find an artist I knew in SF:

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I saw her once playing with a napkin and tear it into the shape of a running horse. In like two minutes. I'd alwasy wondered what happened to her.

That Shag-esque painting is way cool. My fave lowbrow artist is Mark Ryden. I love his stuff!

I'm on the online dating roller coaster again. He seems cool and cute. Into theatre, open minded, bi-cultural and when I asked for guilty pleasures, he said "I don't think all of the Sci Fi channel that I watch is a guilty pleasure, because I don't feel guilty about it. I love the new Doctor Who" I am trying not to wibble.