Maybe it's just me . . .

[pegkerr]

But I'd much prefer to celebrate my 50th birthday by getting a black belt than by reveling in the opportunity to dine in public wearing a purple dress and red hat. And by buying a lot of other tacky purple and red merchandise.

I kinda liked the idea of the Red Hat Society when it first came out, but I think they've been overtaken by merchandising greed and now they seem rather more cringe-inducing than empowering. And sdn is right, their website is really rather scary. If not downright blinding.

(Oh, and my fiftieth birthday is still three years away. Well, almost two.)

Comments

[oursin.livejournal.com]

That all these other people are making money off it, but not her? That poem was specifically mentioned in Wendy Cope's rant (http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2223830,00.html) about internet dissemination of poems as ripping off the actual poets.