Is there a eunuch in the house?
13:01 on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 • 4 responses
Yikes, what a week. I’ve gotten a lot of work done, which feels good, but I work, I work, and I work and my to-do pile doesn’t seem to get any shorter.
I’ve recently taken on a design project. I had reservations about doing so, since I have a bunch of work to catch up on by May, not to mention my upcoming qualifying exams, but doing this project is good for me politically. It’s an interesting theater project with a decent budget and I’ll be working for someone who relishes the opportunity to provoke.
Not having read the scripts (there are two plays), I asked for themes which might be relevant to both productions. I focused on a few: masquerading, gender, and captivity.
On Sunday I went shopping to get props for the initial photography. I don’t think I’ve ever been past the video game section at Toys-R-Us. The video games are located up at the front of the store, probably because hardcore videogamers would probably die from the physical exertion required to walk oneself to the back of the store.
No video games for me this time, though. No sir, I was going straight for the Barbie section.
To be fair, I was actually going for the Ken section, which I understand has a few Barbies in it.
Let me be totally clear without breaking out the soapbox: I despise everything that Barbie stands for.
That I gave money towards the Barbie cause was only to subvert it. I bought three things at Toys-R-Us: A Rio Ken and a Rio Barbie, and a very strange G.I. Joe U.S. Marshal action figure set. Looks like G.I. Joe has moved out of being a strictly military endeavor. Perhaps its was subsumed by the Department of Homeland Defense. Anyway, I bought the G.I. Joe set because it had a certain accessory which I needed for the photo shoot.
Forgive the existential rumination, but I have to say…there’s something surreal about starting your day at 5:30am setting up a playset for your dolls. It’s no less surreal if you’re doing it for a photo shoot. It is, however, three times as surreal if your photo shoot involves making Barbie Ken’s slave.
Psychologize away. The pics are on this entry’s individual page. They may disappear if my server logs suggest they’re being downloaded more than they should be.
