Monday
Apr182005
Soccer Moms Take Heart--
Monday, April 18, 2005 at 04:07PM
This is too good not to share--so if you are having a Bad Day, maybe this will at least give you a smile, if not an outright giggle.
In an essay from the book LIFE AS WE KNOW IT: A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM SALON.COM (Washington Square Press, 2003), Matthew DeBord shares a secret fantasy, in excerpt from "Saucy Soccer Moms":
"A soccer mom implies an inner life; she bristles with knowledge and heat and can-do sexuality. Her alluring humanity and softness--coupled with the expectation that she has a lot more on her plate every day than rolling out of bed and posing for dollars--brings to mind novelist Nicholson Baker's observation, made in his highbrow trash novel VOX, than an orgasm in the mind of an intelligent woman is far more exciting than one that occurs in an outwardly gorgeous void. Soccer moms are smart, not just brainy in that librarian-about-to-take-her-hair-down way, but charged with a brand of common sense that conveys sufficiency of a superior, and way-sexy, grade..."
Bless you, Matthew.
I don't know you, and we'll probably never meet, but you made my day--
For more on Matthew DeBord, check out his archive columns on Salon.com, and definitely check out Matthew DeBord, the wine critic, with his gorgeous new book:
Wine Country USA:
Touring, Tasting, and Buying at America's Regional Wineries
by Matthew DeBord
In an essay from the book LIFE AS WE KNOW IT: A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM SALON.COM (Washington Square Press, 2003), Matthew DeBord shares a secret fantasy, in excerpt from "Saucy Soccer Moms":
"A soccer mom implies an inner life; she bristles with knowledge and heat and can-do sexuality. Her alluring humanity and softness--coupled with the expectation that she has a lot more on her plate every day than rolling out of bed and posing for dollars--brings to mind novelist Nicholson Baker's observation, made in his highbrow trash novel VOX, than an orgasm in the mind of an intelligent woman is far more exciting than one that occurs in an outwardly gorgeous void. Soccer moms are smart, not just brainy in that librarian-about-to-take-her-hair-down way, but charged with a brand of common sense that conveys sufficiency of a superior, and way-sexy, grade..."
Bless you, Matthew.
I don't know you, and we'll probably never meet, but you made my day--
For more on Matthew DeBord, check out his archive columns on Salon.com, and definitely check out Matthew DeBord, the wine critic, with his gorgeous new book: