New Punk Shoes.
I picked up a new pair of Nike sneakers for the UK trip.
My daughter saw the Nike symbol, and immediately called them, Punk Shoes. The reference comes from a autobiographical graphic novel called Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. I love these books, and so I bought them–my daughter read them in a span of two days.
The term ‘punk shoes’ comes from Marji’s unfortunate run-in with some of the crones from the women’s leg of the ‘Guardians of the Revolution’. They were the Iranian governments watchdog against women who were out in public–dressed inappropriately, or behaving badly. [Thank G*d I live in America.]
If you haven’t read Persepolis
I concur! Persepolis was amazing. Have you seen the movie? They did a really great job with it. The animation is very true to her style and I seem to recall we got to see stuff that wasn’t in the books.
Heh. ‘Punk shoes’. XD
I haven’t seen it yet! ^_^ I see them pointing and I can’t help but hear the voice of this old hall monitor we used have, Mr. Hill [we called him Mr. Heil]; it was a private school so we had uniforms–and school rules dictated that you weren’t allowed to have day-glo headbands or wristbands [it was the late 80's] nor were you allowed to sport special shoes or any trendy gear on your uniform–and he was always stopping girls in the hall and bitching at them. He spoke with a shepardic accent– we thought he was from Israel…but I found out later he was just from Brooklyn Heights. :/ Anyway, he’d come right up to you and point out the problems–and get real belligerent about it. He caught me with out a hall pass once and demanded to know where I was going–and I made something up, and then he said, Ms Kolesnik, you’re always a liar. Why are you like this? What will you do when you’re out in the world, tell lies? Is this how you will support your family? I wonder if I should send him some of my work?