Two Obamas and Lincoln
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Three boys bounced outside the store with their newly purchased Halloween masks. These regular suburban boys would never dream of chatting with me a middle-aged adult, but wearing their new masks, they exuded a new confidence. They happily posed for me and said, "We're going to be famous!" Their enthusiasm was contagious and I thought why not? In ancient times, warriors wore the heads or masks of their vanquished enemies to give them atavistic power. Maybe by wearing a mask of a famous person like Obama, the whiff of his power will rub off on them. Good harmless fun or is it? Ten or twenty ago, we didn't hear children make blatant
statements like that. We live in a culture of fame, of surface glitz and instant everything. One moment you're on the street having fun with your friends and the next you're splashed on YouTube. Perhaps these boys will learn that best mask is wearing no mask at all.
A moody pumpkin de jour and flower de jour
Three boys bounced outside the store with their newly purchased Halloween masks. These regular suburban boys would never dream of chatting with me a middle-aged adult, but wearing their new masks, they exuded a new confidence. They happily posed for me and said, "We're going to be famous!" Their enthusiasm was contagious and I thought why not? In ancient times, warriors wore the heads or masks of their vanquished enemies to give them atavistic power. Maybe by wearing a mask of a famous person like Obama, the whiff of his power will rub off on them. Good harmless fun or is it? Ten or twenty ago, we didn't hear children make blatant
statements like that. We live in a culture of fame, of surface glitz and instant everything. One moment you're on the street having fun with your friends and the next you're splashed on YouTube. Perhaps these boys will learn that best mask is wearing no mask at all.
A moody pumpkin de jour and flower de jour
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 10/26/2010 10:15 AM 
Categories: Nature, Media, New York, Holiday, Humor, Photography
Tags: Hastings on hudson halloween obama halloween mask
Categories: Nature, Media, New York, Holiday, Humor, Photography
Tags: Hastings on hudson halloween obama halloween mask
yes! and for some of us a mask is makeup and a hair salon.
well just make up for me.
gotta love those dahlias.
so glad my family is back where they should be. so busy picking up people from the airport or takiing them. hubs just flew in from africa yesterday via paris; i forgot it takes an extra hour at customs, with 5 flights coming through at the same time. poor hubs, these 25 hour jaunts.
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Glad tout le monde are back safe and sound. Yes, make-up is the oldest mask.
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Great shot! Your camera captured a truly spontaneous moment. I prefer the no-mask philosophy myself, though many feel a mask helps bring out one's latent powers.
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I agree, thanks.
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