Re: (TV) rhino's "no thanks!"

[Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com>]

Sorry, Robin, couldn't wait for Xmas, sprung it on my two girls last 
weekend. But they're still young enough to think dad has a modicum of 
cred. All other descriptors ("coffee-swigging" "hover" "reminiscing") 
are accurate, so it's only a matter of time.

For the record, the six-year-old totally flipped for the Wire tracks.

Ty

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 08:02 PM, robin dunn wrote:

> a review of the new rhino set in today's paper, along
> the lines of "punk is older now than rock and roll was
> when punk began"..."we are dinosaurs."  i liked this
> part:
>
> "what's alarming is that this set bears all the
> earmarks of something that you wouldn't buy for
> yourself (since you've already heard a lot of this
> stuff), but that you'd eventually manage to convince
> yourself that someone in your house -- your teenage
> step-daughter, say -- would really enjoy.
>
> "christmas morning in america:  scores of resentful,
> disappointed girls stare uncomprehendingly at their
> new copies of 'no thanks!' as their unshaven,
> coffee-swigging stepfathers hover enthusiastically
> nearby, pointing out favorite tracks and reminiscing
> about shows they attended..."
>
> i thought it sounded like a good strategy, if someone
> was looking for ideas...
>
> r
>
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