meme convergence
Wednesday, January 1st, 2003
Two jokes we’ve had running. The first, from Ayun Halliday’s book The Big Rumpus, was an obstetrician describing the best possible patient – a woman with very little English, who just labored and gave birth – and the worst – “a white girl, with a birth plan and a CD of Pachelbel’s Canon.” The second was me watching the sun rise after Claire was born, feeling like the white wizard in The Two Towers: “Gandalf. Yes. That’s what they used to call me.”
Today memes converged.
R: I was Rachel the Grey. Now I’m Rachel the White.
J: Rachel the White Girl With Birth Plan and Pachelbel’s Canon.
