Do you aspire to coolness? Or cuteness?
Was it Frank Zappa who said that the American ideals of coolness and cuteness are, respectively, male and female versions of stupidity? Something like that.
I am reminded of that every time I try to be cool, or cute.
Xkot posted a good Alice Walker poem today, you should really go read it.
Happy Fourth of July, everyone.
It was a tragedy that Frank Zappa died so young. He had wit and integrity. I remember his testifying at the old Tipper Gore indecent lyric hearings, and his description of the whole thing, more or less, as instant pudding whipped up by the wives of Big Brother.