I'm Married To An Eighty-Year-Old Woman

"Why do they wear those tight jeans?" Ella asked as we were watching the Jonas Brothers portion of the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds Concert with the kids.

"I wore tight jeans when I was their age."

"Yeah, but you thought you were Jon Bon Jovi. It's a good thing you grew out of that stage before we met."

"…"

"So why are their jeans so tight? Is it because they think they're emus?"

Emus? I thought. What the hell is she talking about?


Not a Jonas Brother


And then I realized my pop culturally ignorant wife meant emo.

I'm going to have to get her a subscription to CosmoGirl if she has any chance of conversing with our daughter in the future.

Song of the day: Connection by Elastica

[Thanks to Kate for letting me know that preteen girls no longer read Tiger Beat.]