People came and used my laptop. It likes it.

Last night we had friends over and it was nerd nirvana for me with the laptop being fondled by many people, all at once.

We were checking out Modern Seed because in June our friends John and Asa are expecting a little girl who I am certain will be cute enough to plop in your pocket. She'll also have one very stylish room if her parents outfit the nursery with Modern Seed merchandise.

I'm sorry to keep harping on this New York Times article, but I just can't help it. I of course bought the paper version today (can you believe how cute Miss Leta is? Don't even get me started on the beautiful white goodness of the iBook in Heather's lap), and as Logan and I read the paper version together we yelled out at least one time per paragraph something like, "What?" "Are you kidding me?" or "Who the hell is Alice Brady?"

I want to explain for any new readers who come here because they read how I'm anxious and uncertain because my son 'might be gay'. Perhaps you read that article with your own family and rolled your eyes up into your skull and thought, "What kind of a narcissistic and self absorbed parent actually worries her two year old might be gay?"

There are two things I say to that: I have often speculated about my son's future sexuality. He might be gay and he might be straight and really he could dress up like Liza Minelli every single day and sing a rousing version of 'New York, New York' and still grow up to be as straight as his totally hot but also metrosexual father. I really don't care about it either way. I simply find it amusing to speculate about it because it strikes me as funny. I obviously don't care about scarring my son, because I'm 'self absorbed'.

But what really bothers me the most is how Mr Hochman didn't mention even once that Max is not gay because he loves trucks and tutus. He's gay because he loves petite quiche.

Comments

[Katherine]

It's like a nerd orgey on your couch. Please invite me next time! ;)

[Tiffany]

I liked the picture of Leta, but I felt like it was a little manipulative of the New York Times to include a picture of her looking away with an expression like, "God, my mother is BLOGGING about me again. I'm so screwed up because she is ruining my privacy." Just like Hochman knows she is going to be when she is sixteen.

[Psycho Kitty]

Frankly, we always worried more about our son turning out to be a cowboy than turning out to be gay. Except then we realized, "What if he turns out to be gay and ends up *dating* a cowboy?" *That* would be a bummer.

[Psycho Kitty]

Oh, and by the way, the future cowboy's comment re: the logo: "It's a pacie? In water?" My response: "Uh-huh, honey. Yep."

[Anita]

That picture has me LOL at my desk! Too funny.

And I can't stop harping about that article, either. I'm interested to see the corrections in next week's NYTimes.

[blackbird]

we had friends over on saturday night, the *new smell* was still on my iBook--they brought their Dell laptop and we had races. I won of course, but then they clicked on their photos --of THEIR HOUSE IN THE BAHAMAS...they won that one.
great mailing with you this weekend...

[Lisa]

Yes I don't know why I spend so much mental energy on this article. Hell I'm not in it. I found someone who interviewed but not included, (I think via Laura at 11D) that while he was interviewing her he said something like "don't you think these people are narsicisstic and self absorbed?" So he already had his "slant" while writing the story. He just used all of the bloggers quotes to fit his idea.
Please don't mind the misspellings and bad grammar, etc. I am sick and going to bed.
I hope the article brings you good traffic. And makes Hochman look like a moron.

[Lisa]

Yes I don't know why I spend so much mental energy on this article. Hell I'm not in it. I found someone who interviewed but not included, (I think via Laura at 11D) that while he was interviewing her he said something like "don't you think these people are narsicisstic and self absorbed?" So he already had his "slant" while writing the story. He just used all of the bloggers quotes to fit his idea.
Please don't mind the misspellings and bad grammar, etc. I am sick and going to bed.
I hope the article brings you good traffic. And makes Hochman look like a moron.

[anon]

Our society is schizophrenic. We are innundated with images of Motherhood as marginalized and demanding, and then, when we (flippantly, jokingly) treat it as such, we as mothers are criticized for it. I wish they'd make up their minds already. Geesh.

[Lori]

Hey! Wanted to let you know that you are ruining my life! I am aquiring your shopping and spending money "thing"....I know you no longer are afflicted with it, (oh how I hate you for this!) but I think is it contagious. Every time you post a catalog link (Like Boden or Modern Seed) I go check it out and I LOVE everything in the stupid F**king things! ;) I had never even heard of them before and now I have them send me catalogs....You do have have taste...even if you are a narcissistic and self absorbed parent...why oh why have you corrupted me? My husband also hates you....he has had to take away all my credit cards but ONE....how is a woman supposed to live on ONE credit card I ask you? And try to stay away from your son...if he's gay and gets this affliction, he'll put you in the poor house before his 12th birthday...he will absolutely have to be the most fabulous dresser with the best toys and most expensive gadets in school....

:) LORI the narcissistic and self absorbed non parent who can't stop spending money...

[Mrs. Brady]

This post isn't about me so I don't want to read it. Although you did mention me. And that made me happy.

p.s. I'm special!

[Kelly]

That is one of the cutest pictures I've seen! (Of max, not you guys fondling the new laptop).

[Mrs. Kennedy]

No, I'm SPECIAL. Alice is "special."

[Caracao]

“Who the hell is Alice Brady?” Alice Brady is the name of an old movie actress who has been dead since 1939. Or was that a rhetorical question?

[MelissaS]

Did you see the new Boden? I think there are just five items I would never wear in the entire catalog. It's perfect and I'm sorry but I'm glad to see someone else using credit cards. I remember credit cards. It was just one short year ago when we were friends.

[anon]

Caracao, note that her name was misspelled. Therefore, she's wondering who the reporter is talking about when indeed he's quoting her. Silly willy.

Off to figure out what is this Boden of which you speak.

[anon]

OHMYGOD I'm back. Sorry to hog your whole comments section, but the Boden site is just...wow. I hadn't heard of them before, but now browse and fill a shopping cart I must.

Oh and the best part is that when ordering a catalog you get to choose your title. I chose Field Marshal Lord, but I could have just as easily been Wing Commander or The Viscontess.

[Lori]

YES!!! I have seen the new Boden. I cursed you with each page! Have you seen Frontgate? Read it and weep, baby! My dad got me hooked on that one. Hey dad, guess where I want my birthday present from? ;)

[emily]

Your credit cards wrote to mine,they miss you.Mine wrote back saying they were overworked and underpaid.
They are never happy.

[MollieBee]

Look at that butt! What a cutie.

[LargeMarge]

Ooops, I thought you said "Modern STEED" -- thought it was some weird porno site that your friends were in to. Hey, I'm okay with that -- to each their own. However, I was a little relieved when I realized that it was Seed, not sTeed.

[Dana]

I think you're the coolest mom.

[beerzie boy]

In the fashion and style section? WTF?

[Wayne]

Just wanted to say that I started reading this blog before the Times mentioned it. And that I found the article sort of condescending and symptomatic of the catch-22 that parents, and especially mothers, find themselves in. Oh, and I also wanted to say that I personally enjoy just about everything you write. Can pure narcissism alone entertain so many other people, or could it possibly be that what you have to say is worth reading?

Anyway, once again, I enjoy this site.

[y]

I once wrote a post about the time I asked my son what he wanted to do when he grew up and he said "make girls pretty" and how I let him put make up on me (and of course, I posted the pictures of the make up he had applied to MY face) Me and my best friend Melly laughed for days about the fact people would probably whisper behind my back that "Doesn't she know she's encouraging her son to be G-A-Y?!" And how if he wasn't gay, how pissed he'd be at me for posting that.

How totally self absorbed of me, huh?

And... Did I have a point with this comment and does it have ANYTHING to do with your post?

Sorry. I tend to make everything about me.

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