tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29788763.post116015007518407167..comments2023-06-08T02:20:52.350-07:00Comments on Dunbar, Nebraska: the bastardization of holly hobbieemdunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467828180071772429noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29788763.post-1160413620382687102006-10-09T10:07:00.000-07:002006-10-09T10:07:00.000-07:00thanks for reading & commenting, carey. the worst...thanks for reading & commenting, carey. the worst part of commercialization is the way I still, as an educated, thinking, deliberate person still see myself getting sucked in. I just bought new stylish yoga pants because I somehow feel I'll do yoga better and enjoy it more or maybe get fit faster if I'm not wearing my finely functioning regular-old sweats. a purchase is necessary to an experience or feeling. it's so stupid. let's start a commune and live out in the woods.emdunbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467828180071772429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29788763.post-1160233430728194012006-10-07T08:03:00.000-07:002006-10-07T08:03:00.000-07:00Very interesting. I am also thirty-two and way in...Very interesting. I am also thirty-two and way into Little House on the Prairie. And Holly freakin' Hobbie. In fact, I didn't know about this until a scant seven years ago, but I grew up about ten miles from the place where Ma and Pa got married. But mostly, I think, I loved those stories because they are somewhat real -- at least they felt more real than a lot of the books out there. But there's this other side to it, too. And it's the whole commercialization aspect -- they point out how our lives are messed up, convince us that our lives are without even if they aren't, and then provide something that can fill the hole. Thirty years ago, maybe they convinced little girls that if only we lived like the Ingalls family (No thank you! Remember how Mary went blind? Child mortality?), or bought stuff to fill that void, life would be perfect. Today, it's just something different. Kind of... I'm sort of playing devil's advocate (dangerous analogy, but take it in the vernacular way), but I'm sort of just saying what I think, too. They worked too darn hard to sell Holly Hobbie as the former rather than the latter (of Emily's post). Pageboy hat Holly will never fly. Strawberry Shortcake? They haven't changed her much. She's selling like hotcakes. Children have always looked to their parents (not to put any pressure on y'all) more than anything. I like reading your blog, Emily. Keep keepin' it real.<BR/><BR/>Carey M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29788763.post-1160231811062222762006-10-07T07:36:00.000-07:002006-10-07T07:36:00.000-07:00mindboggling, no? my only hope is that it just ca...mindboggling, no? my only hope is that it just can't sell, right? no one is going to buy into that, are they? hh's target audience is children of people are age--how could a woman born in the seventies believe THAT is holly hobbie?emdunbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467828180071772429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29788763.post-1160172989013250642006-10-06T15:16:00.000-07:002006-10-06T15:16:00.000-07:00That is really stunning. I don't have words.That is really stunning. I don't have words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com