I think for the new year...

I will pretend I was on a space mission, in the radio shadow of some planet, for the last two years or so.

Preparing for reentry in three, two...

Pinkification

Any of you out there with children, nieces and nephews, or friends with children who can confirm this? It's an impression I've been having myself, but it's difficult to tell if it's really worse than when I was a child (late 70s/early to mid-80s) because there are no children at all in my circle of acquaintances.

I notice I don't have a tag for gender stuff yet... hmm.

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Speaking of gender, I feel I should explain my recent Phideaux post a bit more. What I found odd/amusing/fascinating about that youtube vid is not so much the fact that he's wearing a dress (and a wig) there, per se. Or rather, there *is* something odd about it, namely, the way it seems a joke yet not. He's kind of wearing that dress (and the wig)... completely deadpan. As a (gender) performance it's interesting to me because it's neither properly parody nor imitation, it just kind of... is. And I am amused - in a respectful, even admiring way, not in a "OMG how funny, a guy in a dress!" way - that that is one of the *very* few video documents he's made available of himself (it's from his website, originally).

I don't know if I'm explaining myself very well here. I'm not sure I *can* explain what I feel about Phideaux, quite. I love his music, *intensely* (the older stuff more than the newer stuff, though - I've been listening to Ghost Story nearly non-stop since Christmas), and I'm... intrigued by the extremely scarce information I've found about him online. Like a) he chose that video to put on his website, and b) his day job is directing tv shows, mainly soap operas. I keep wanting to put the pieces together to get some kind of coherent picture, but of course there isn't enough information. And, wow, am I sounding like a stalker or what, now.

Oh well.