Miscellany

[pantryslut]

1. I sure could use some leads on a good anatomically correct doll for April. Affordable and un-creepy, and I am resigned to vinyl. She currently is undressing every single doll she sees and checking out its parts. She's also checking out visitors, so mind your boundaries. It may also be time to break out Where Do Babies Come From and its terribly tasteful watercolors.

2. Barbara Payton's life story makes Frances Farmer's look like a cake walk.

3. I know you guys probably think I'm a little too obsessively politically correct on the subject of the skin hues of dolls. Nonetheless, I am disappointed in Planet Pixies.

4. An unrelated toddler disappointment: it's surprisingly hard to find dresses with either frogs or elephants on them. I finally succeeded with the frogs. Makes me wish I could sew. I wonder if Mom wants to take it up again...

5. Anyone have any recs for treating mild but very itchy eczema? This stuff just isn't going away this time for some reason.

Comments

[aquenigmatic.livejournal.com]

Noxzema? Or Calamine Lotion?

[aquenigmatic.livejournal.com]

Also, I don't think you're "too obsessively politically correct" on that subject. It matters. A lot. (As you know.) And I would have to arch an eyebrow (before mentally crossing them off a number of lists) at anyone saying otherwise.

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was kinda wondering which "you guys" you were talking about there.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

OK, I cop to feeling self-conscious, and that's my shit to own.

But I know the solution! I am going to broaden my horizons and start complaining about other toys and children's media, too. Dora and Magicical Hipster DJs a la Yo Gabba Gabba notwithstanding.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Yo Gabba Gabba

Hush, mention not That Which Should Not Be Named!

Io! Io! Gabbagabba fhtagn!

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Typo preserved b/c I kinda like it.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I was going to say the same thing about not being too obsessively politically correct. You have good personal as well as political reasons to stem an almost uncontrollable tide. That way lies appropriate obsessiveness.