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Never a Barbie: November 2010
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. November 24, 2010. And Then I Didn't. I think I mentioned. That I bought a Barbie Dream House on eBay. The original 1962 model, just like the one I had as a kid. Not to. Hard to say, though I've kept every scrap. The more important question is: Did I love it? Writing Down the Bones. For example: write about a favorite toy. Ten minutes. Okay, go. No, stop. What. Whoa, wait. What was that about the Barbie Dream House? No, seriously, what. It took m...
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Never a Barbie: Happy Barbie Day
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. March 9, 2011. My friend Beth reminded me that today is Barbie's birthday. She told me that she hadn't known that Barbie owed her existence to Bild Lilli. A voluptuous German doll sold mostly in smoke shops and toy stores, a gag gift for adult males, whose inspiration, a comic-strip character named Lilli was, as your grandmother might have said, no better than she should have been. Beth went on to say, " Barbie. Again Take that, Bild Lilli!
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Symbolon: Our Contributors
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A newsletter of poetic recognition. Tuesday, January 5, 2010. Is the poetry editor of CounterPunch,. The producer/host of "Report from the Mountains: Poetry and Jazz from the Grizfork Studio" and the author of The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems. Several chapbooks, and the novel A Handful of Dust. His work has been published in. Currently resides in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he attends the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center of Writers’ doctoral prog...Is a writ...
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Never a Barbie: September 2010
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. September 26, 2010. My oldest (in terms of how long we've know each other) friend recently announced that she'll be a grandmother early next year, and all I could think was, how could she (and by extension, me) possibly be old enough to have grandchildren? I still remember the day we met, a sweat-sticky afternoon in early August. She was nine. I was almost-nine. What would our children have been like? Who would WE be, if we had had children?
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Never a Barbie: November 2009
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. November 24, 2009. She's Got Barbie Roberts Eyes. To the uninitiated, a Barbie is a Barbie. To see one is to see them all. Collectors know better, and can recite the subtle variations in features that distinguish Barbie #2. But in 1971, twelve years after her introduction, Mattel made a more dramatic change to Barbie’s face – her eyes would now face forward, a change from her original more demure sideways glance. The original Barbie’s eyes. If yo...
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Never a Barbie: May 2010
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. May 25, 2010. Never a Barbie will return to once-a-month posting for the summer. Look for a new entry at the beginning of each month. Have a groovy summer, dudes and dudettes! Posted by Barbara Simpson. Links to this post. May 18, 2010. By Maizie Lee Linkous. Then she'd send me off to watch NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. So then she'd go to work on the other side, trying to loosen those ones. She'd brush and brush and stretch. And there'd be D...
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Never a Barbie: And Then I Didn't
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. November 24, 2010. And Then I Didn't. I think I mentioned. That I bought a Barbie Dream House on eBay. The original 1962 model, just like the one I had as a kid. Not to. Hard to say, though I've kept every scrap. The more important question is: Did I love it? Writing Down the Bones. For example: write about a favorite toy. Ten minutes. Okay, go. No, stop. What. Whoa, wait. What was that about the Barbie Dream House? No, seriously, what. It took m...
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Never a Barbie: April 2010
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Growing up (and being) Barbara in a Barbie-obsessed world. April 27, 2010. A Room of One's Own (Redux). Perhaps this bears repeating. The Barbie Dream House was not my dream present. But after forgiving Santa for not bringing Color Magic Barbie instead, and after all the Slot As had been inserted into their Slot Bs, I came around. Mostly because- although I couldnt have articulated this as a child- Barbie. Had independence and autonomy and a place of her own. Posted by Barbara Simpson. Links to this post.
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