Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Flat Daddies for the inner city!


I was listening to an NPR story about the cardboard cutouts of soldiers in Iraq. I used to have a cutout of Captain Kirk in my cubicle and people would perform indignities upon his person. Someone gave him a 911 cape and a dot in the middle of his forehead. There is a lot of Bill Shatner hatred out there in the universe, I can tell you.

Anyway, the kids in the farm belt have their daddies in cardboard form and it is supposed to be helpful to have the daddy around, real or not. I was thinking, perhaps, that kids in the inner city could have cardboard cutouts of "Prison Daddy" It's like your dad is in Iraq, only cooler, cuz he's a bad ass prison gangsta! They could just have a "Flat Tookie" for all the kids, as most of them don't even know who their real daddies are, anyway.

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