Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My mother took me and my sister to see the infamous Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit when I was in high school
We may have been there at the same time! (I saw it 3 times -- once with one of my college classes [I was, quite conveniently, taking a class on the 1st Amendment at the time], once with my college roommate, and once with a friend who couldn't get anyone else to go with her.)
At 16, I sat next to my mom in the theater and watched Body Heat.
I was still blushing three weeks later.
Not unless you went to Boston to see it, Steph! (It traveled; Cincinnati just gave it the most kerfuffle, natch.)
I am SO grateful for my dad's addiction to sci-fi, and my mother's addiction to romance. Censorship was never an issue.
I am starting to suspect that Erin and I have the same parents.
Not unless you went to Boston to see it, Steph! (It traveled; Cincinnati just gave it the most kerfuffle, natch.)
You know, I couldn't remember if you ever lived here pre-college, and I thought I would have remembered if you and Nutty had, but then I thought maybe you visited someone, and and and...
So went my thought process.
The first weekend my mother met Ethan, we all went out to see Boogie Nights together. She was totally unphased.
And yet, she stopped taking movie recommendations from me for almost a year after I suggested Heavenly Creatures.
Freak.
(In my defense, I was totally not thinking of that part of the plot when I gave her the DVD. But I can see how it might have stood out if my daughter had given it to me.)
I was born in Cincinnati and lived there until I was three (1972-1975). My father moved back (he grew up there) when I was in college (like, 1992?), and I (coincidentally) went to grad school there from 1995-2000.
And then I moved away and THEN you and I met!
I am positive I've told the story here: as a middle-schooler, I earned my lunch money every day by passing around Judith Krantz books in various classes with the good parts marked. A quarter per 5 minutes.
Ha ha, that's great.
Man, Tiger Woods is all over the magazine stands. My family shares sport more than fiction. Golf sex scandals we can talk about in detail.