purple does not look good with red hats. sorry.

Ok, so this is unrelated to performance or clown or anything, but it is something that has been annoying me for some time.

My mother is getting older. It happens. And often she'll tell me about experiences where she goes into a store that has younger folks working there and no one pays any attention to her. Like she, a potential paying customer, is completely invisible. It's one of those things that, unfortunately, I wouldn't have noticed if she hadn't pointed it out. But now that she has I see it EVERYWHERE.

Have you been watching Top Chef? All these young chefs treat Robin, a woman in her early 40s, like she's senile. This episode of Chopped gets down to two chefs, an older woman and a young male sous chef and the sous chef continues to call the woman Grandma. It's ridiculous and I can't freakin stand it. Not just because it affects my mother, though that does drive the point home, but because it totally dismisses the experience and knowledge that these women possess.

I shouldn't even have to say that.

Bah.

So now, to celebrate older women and all their greatness, here's a picture of carol burnett dressed as asparagus.