When I was a kid, I wanted to marry Princess Leia. Of course, I didn't know her very well, but I sensed that our lifestyles would be compatible, interested as we both were in the struggle for galactic justice.
I'm about halfway through Carrie Fisher's latest book The Best Awful, right at the part where Suzanne Vale cracks foxy about the mammary-inspired shape of the nuke plant between LA and San Diego as she heads for the Tijuana border with a head full of opiates and I'm just thinking, do our heroes always have to follow us through life?
I mean, I wanted to be Ozzy Osbourne when I was 12, running around on stage, biting the heads off of rodents and screaming about alienation. Now I *am* Ozzy Osbourne, stumbling around the house, tripping over cats and mumbling to myself about the fecking remote control.
Posted by Jason at March 22, 2004 03:21 PM