Barbie of Suburbia
All morning, the bargain hunters have been walking up and down the sidewalk, going from house to house in search of patio furniture, jewelry boxes, framed artwork and 25-cent plastic toys.
How did they miss this? I think. She is three-feet tall, naked and leaning casually against the side of a house. A piece of yellow legal pad on which someone has scrawled "$2" is taped to the wall beside her.
"Are you sure you want to get rid of that?" I ask my neighbor. "She would make a good centerpiece."
In the end, my neighbor agrees, though neither of us has any hope for that kind of party around here.
Still, we are keeping her.
Perhaps we will mail her all around the country like Not-Flat Stanley. Probably we should take her shopping first. She looks cold.
What do you think Barbie? Would you like to get out of here?
You can send her here. I'll take a shot of her in the French Quarter, dressed like that, maybe Bourbon Street.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | May 11, 2008 at 04:48 PM
I think you should mail her around the country with a little set of instructions for the rest of us to donate her some clothes or set her up for a night on the town or something, and then send her on her way to the next person -- of course she'd have to send you digital postcards from her travels to document them. It would be excellent to see where she ends up!
Posted by: MommyTime | May 11, 2008 at 05:39 PM
Ha. Not-flat Stanley. hehe. (giggle giggle)
Posted by: Cathy | May 11, 2008 at 06:26 PM
First stop Michigan Avenue. Then the Big Easy, where she is certain to set a record for bead haul...
Posted by: suburban kamikaze | May 13, 2008 at 01:28 PM
I think you're going to have to do it. You're going to have to stick her in an envelope and mail her around. I don't like the clothes idea though--I think she should keep it real.
Posted by: Ok, Where Was I? | May 16, 2008 at 08:58 AM
Maybe she could be allowed clothes at her various locations, but must be mailed on in the raw (a phrase I loathe and so seems perfect here).
Sounds like the next big coast-to-coast bloggaganza to me!
Posted by: foolery | May 17, 2008 at 10:50 PM
you can send her here, to DC. i am quite sure we can do something awful with her, like dip her in the Tidal Basin or pose her in front of the Capitol. she won't be the first barbie to do either of these things, though.
Posted by: wrekehavoc | May 21, 2008 at 04:11 AM
Is there a reason Barbie didn't get in the Saturn with Bossy? She always wanted to star in her own pictorials.
Posted by: BOSSY | May 22, 2008 at 03:39 PM