Swimmin Frog

Saturday, August 26, 2006
Skinny Jeans and Demoted Planets
What I believed to be true was questioned this week

Let me tell you my story...I ran to the store - - ok, you caught me, I actually drove. I don't run unless there is a bobcat chasing me even then I would try to give it a Whiskerlickins with hairball remedy and hope to make friends before he tears into my patella. Anyway, I went to the store because I was out of some necessities. When it was my turn to put my stuff up on the counter, so that Doris the "smiling" cashier could earn her pay I spotted a must have for fall. You guessed it, the People Fall Fashion issue. BIG EYE ROLL HERE!!! In a moment of weakness I threw it on the counter (insert Doris's look of you got to be kidding me, I just pushed the total button). I rushed home so that I could start planning the rest of my fashion future. Plopping on the sofa with a bottle of agua and my new prize, I began to flip through the glossy pages. Lindsey says that her must have is a stylish bag (ok, stylish bag...check) Plaids are totally in see Jennifers beautiful skirt (ok, I can handle that) then... Horror of horrors...there they were SKINNY JEANS! What next? A scrunchie? Leg warmers? Pop in Footloose and Wake Me Up Before You Go Go cuz the skinny jean is back! I truly believed that cruel fashion was gone.

My Very Enthusiastic Mom Just Served Us Nine _____. What is missing? HELLO!!!!.... Pluto. Now the solar system I grew up with is lacking the "P" for my little pneumonic device. I read this the other day as I turned my computer on to begin what I thought was a normal day:

In what many scientists describe as a triumph of science over sentiment, Pluto was demoted to the status of a dwarf planet.

This whole thing reminds me of an after school special Here is the plot: Pluto was born a dwarf planet, but spent the majority of its life pretending to be something it wasnt something that society labeled it. Now, the world has grown more accepting of Pluto and realizes it needs its own label (cuz we are a culture of labels) And I even read in the NEW YORK TIMES that they are coming up with a new classification trans-Neptunian. Honestly!