Sydney got ahold of her daddy’s glasses, and suddenly she looks so smart.
Looking so sharp in specs is by no means the only sign that Sidney is swiftly becoming a pint-sized soi dissant cultural elite bleeding-heart intellectual sheeple - as regular “Alas” readers may recall, she’s also been spotted enjoying the New York Review of Books.
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May 10th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
Who is Sydney????
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May 10th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
That is precious!!! She looks like she’s lecturing in the first shot; authoritatively, might I add.
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May 11th, 2005 at 1:09 am
She’s my daughter :) (and Matt’s, who posts infrequently (last time was on the Colorado governor/EC discussion). Amp, Charles, Bean, Elkins & c0. are her upstairs aunt’s and uncles.
Thank you, though, she’s a wonderful kiddo.
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May 11th, 2005 at 3:57 am
I don’t want to come across as offended, here, because I’m not, but do you really feel that it’s acceptable to stereotype people who wear glasses as intellectuals and vice versa? I mean, it’s not entirely without justification: reading at close ranges does tend to cause nearsightedness (I think it did in me!), and I don’t think that people with (or without) glasses are really discriminated against (aside from occassional juvenile “four eyes” remarks at the kindergarten level), so I don’t think that you’re really harming anyone or anything. Still, you’re usually so conscientious about taking people seriously as individuals and not reducing them to members of whatever corporate groups they’re members of that it does seem surprising and out of character to see you making the glasses = intellectual assumption. I hope I’m not overanalysing a moment of levity, and I’m not morally objecting to the pictures: I was just surprised by them, like seeing a guy who usually wears a staid business suit decked out in a Hawai’ian shirt: kinda “whoah, that’s different” more than “that’s wrong.”
And Sidney is indeed cute. She does look very profound, too.
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May 11th, 2005 at 8:38 am
Julian, my daughter wears glasses, and has not yet heard any “four eyes” comments at either pre-K or daycare. In fact, kids have told her her specs are “cool”. I think things may have changed a little since I was growing up; the kids today seem to think of glasses as another fashion accessory, rather than a crutch.
The downside to that of course, is that even the grade schoolers are aware of brand names, and what the “fashionable” frames are.
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May 11th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Well I have to say I agree with Amp, his child does look like an intellectual with those glasses on…especially the one with her finger alongside of her nose, she looks like she’s just about to give a very thoughtful reply to a question…
I’ve seen William Buckle, Christopher Hitchens and numerous others make that same gesture with the fingers alongside the nose (even w/o the glasses on)…
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May 11th, 2005 at 11:03 am
Amp = Uncle, Matt = Dad :)
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May 11th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
I’ve got to have a brief-out of character moment here:
OHHH!!! SHE’S SO CUTE! Look at those chubby little cheeks, and those blue eyes!
We know return you to your child-hating, no-desire-for-kids-whatsoever Antigone that we all know (and possibly love).
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May 11th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Hehe it’s okay, Antigone. You don’t have to want ‘em, to love ‘em or appreciate ‘em. :)
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May 11th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Ahhhh, we’ll have to keep an eye on her. She’ll doubtless be working for the communists in no time. Then, after the communists have taken power, we’ll have to hide her so she can escape the purges.
Yes, I’ve been reading Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare.
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May 12th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
“Amp = Uncle, Matt = Dad :)”
Sorry Kim…
I read it quickly and didn’t notice that you had replied instead of Amp…
Nevertheless, I stand by my comment, lovely child, definitely going to be an intellectual…she already has the ‘moves’…
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