Comments on: Cloak of invisibility http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/11/cloak-of-invisibility/ The tween site for adults Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:39:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Joel Jacobs http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/11/cloak-of-invisibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 Joel Jacobs Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:44:48 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=952#comment-1643 I once saw the Car-parazzi in LA taking a picture of a car. Seriously. I take the bus in LA. Sometimes I'm the only white person on board. You haven't spent enough time in LA yet. There are 42-year-old women who turn lots of heads. Some, well many, women in LA spent huge amounts of time and money on looking younger, often with impressive results. But I'm sure NY is like that too. I think your penultimate paragraph is too short. It teases at a whole bunch of stuff without elaborating. And it's confusing. It seems like one of the main thrusts of your blog is the wonder of gaining perspective on life, getting older and worrying less about many things that used to consume you? I hate the fact that so many people in LA judge others by the cars they drive and I try not to associate with people who invest so much meaning into such status symbols. (Kinda like what you tell your kids.) To whom exactly are you invisible as a 42-year-old woman? Hard to believe you're invisible to people you care about. Referring to your own invisibility in such an offhanded way makes it sound inexorable, something you have to buy into. You don't have to, and mostly you don't in your blog. Has LA really taken you over that quickly? I once saw the Car-parazzi in LA taking a picture of a car. Seriously.

I take the bus in LA. Sometimes I’m the only white person on board.

You haven’t spent enough time in LA yet. There are 42-year-old women who turn lots of heads. Some, well many, women in LA spent huge amounts of time and money on looking younger, often with impressive results. But I’m sure NY is like that too.

I think your penultimate paragraph is too short. It teases at a whole bunch of stuff without elaborating. And it’s confusing. It seems like one of the main thrusts of your blog is the wonder of gaining perspective on life, getting older and worrying less about many things that used to consume you? I hate the fact that so many people in LA judge others by the cars they drive and I try not to associate with people who invest so much meaning into such status symbols. (Kinda like what you tell your kids.)

To whom exactly are you invisible as a 42-year-old woman? Hard to believe you’re invisible to people you care about. Referring to your own invisibility in such an offhanded way makes it sound inexorable, something you have to buy into. You don’t have to, and mostly you don’t in your blog.

Has LA really taken you over that quickly?

]]> By: Aimee http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/11/cloak-of-invisibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Aimee Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:15:03 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=952#comment-1642 Great post. As a car-free girl, I was recently in Long Beach for the Women's Conference and took the bus from the airport to the hotel (something the Women's Conference logistics section failed to include - I mean seriously, who would pay $1.10 to ride a bus that drops off in front of the hotel when you can spend $30 to take a cab?!). I didn't feel like a freak, but remembered why I love my hometown a little more every day. Great post. As a car-free girl, I was recently in Long Beach for the Women’s Conference and took the bus from the airport to the hotel (something the Women’s Conference logistics section failed to include - I mean seriously, who would pay $1.10 to ride a bus that drops off in front of the hotel when you can spend $30 to take a cab?!). I didn’t feel like a freak, but remembered why I love my hometown a little more every day.

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