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Push Me Pull You

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So, I keep coming back to children’s literature when I think of what makes “me” the person I am. And sometimes it scares me.

Why do all the classics I can think of have imperialist themes?

  • Doctor Doolittle is a “vegetarian” who really craves the flesh of his patients.
  • Babar would be nothing if he didn’t learn western ways. He certainly wouldn’t be king!
  • Is the conclusion that Ozma is a “fair and gentle” ruler enough justification to alter the way of life of the people in hidden countries of Oz?
  • How do those Narnia kids have *any* real claim to the throne of the country?!

And as a postscript… do you ever have nightmares about being held up against Mary Poppins’ tape measure? I do.

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She Emerges from the Mists of Antiquity… at last!

Kate BushSeveral people got this information to me today, knowing how she used to be my favorite musical artist, but the winner was Chris, who passed on this Billboard article to me this morning. After 12 years, Kate Bush returns with a new double album, entitled “Aerial” on November 8 in the States! What will it sound like? Will anyone care? Who could possibly imagine? I know that after her last album, “The Red Shoes,” a son, and a span of 12 years, Kate could have gone in any direction conceivable.

Now after three albums that I consider sheer genius, and incomparable in the world of modern rock (those albums being “Never Forever,” “The Dreaming,” and “Hounds of Love” – which bore the U.S. Top 40 hit, “Running Up That Hill”) Kate had difficulty maintaining that level of genius, and her last two album, “The Sensual World,” and “The Red Shoes,” while still amazing and pretty damn spectacular, could only be seen as disappointments. Regardless, 12 years is WAY too long to go without any new material from La Bush. At least it’s a double album… and I’ve heard that she is working on some video/movie project to go with it. I must say, I can’t wait!