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And Yet ANOTHER Story Box: The Little Mermaid: the Sad and F*&^d up original version- Plus: A Good Day to Be a Texan.

6/26/2013

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Here's a new story box (all maple)- "The Little Mermaid." A mermaid swims on the woodburned and painted lid. But it didn't work out so well for the little mermaid in the original pre-Disneyfied story- the prince is a bad bargain who doesn't love her, she's given up her tongue, and her feet always feel like she's walking on knives. So  on the inside of the box she is crying on the beach as the human girl she wanted so much to be, before she dies. And oh, yeah, she then turns into a nice spirit and that's supposed to make everything OK. Right. Jerkoff prince. Fairy tales are some effed up stories. If you've never read Grimms' The Juniper Tree, give it a look. It's just too bleak and awful to make a box of- although the little boy's head rolling in the apples would be fun to woodburn.

And a note on being a Texan: I am not used to being proud of being a Texan when it comes to politics, but today I am proud of my people, and proud of Texas senators like Wendy Davis, who filibustered a godawful anti-choice, anti-woman bill for 13 hours yesterday. With the help of Texans who showed up to do a "people's filibuster" in the Capitol gallery, the bill was killed. Tom and I were there yesterday morning to support Senator Davis, and I feel pretty warm and fuzzy right now about what people can achieve in the face of tremendous odds when their government is riding roughshod over their rights. Thank you, Wendy Davis. And thank you, fellow Texans who stayed up and stayed active when we went to bed.

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