Kately Days

Would you believe - all three of you readers - that some things change with time?

Take, for instance, the beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ... they aren't quite the same any more and I know this because in a moment of sheer boredom today ... Matt and I opted to watch THEE movie.

And I lasted all the way until the climactic, intense training scene where I bowed out gracefully even after Matt assured me that it is always all down hill, and that the movie is almost over after any climactic, intense training scene in any movie.

And he was right because thirty minutes later he met me in the study and dumbfounded, said, "It was Corey Feldman. Donatello WAS Corey Feldman's voice." Honestly, he was shocked. The whole time we were watching, I kept insisting that "he sounds like Corey Feldman." Matt was convinced that - at the time - it would have cost WAY too much money to hire Corey to do the voiceovers. But at the end of the movie, when the credits rolled, Matt was clearly proved wrong. And I love it when that happens. Especially when I'm not there to see it. And he's SO wrong that he has to, in utter disbelief, come tell me.

But this is all beside the point.

I realized today that the TMNTs are all humans inside really fancy TMNT suits. And that's sad, folks. I realized that while my mother is infinitely cool for having purchased tickets to their live show, toted her three children to see it, and listened for days to my exclamations that "they dance waaaaaaaay better than Janet Jackson" ... turtles don't stand upright - even if (as babies) they rolled around in radio-active waste and were saved by a really old talking ninja rat who harnessed his art by mimicking his "master," nor do they have those funky toes or fingers - and how could I have ever taken them seriously? I realized that I'm still shocked when Rafael says "damn" and I shouldn't be. I realized that for some unknown reason I still can't stand April O'Neal.

And with all of these startling realizations ... I can't help but wonder if someday kool-aid and fruit roll-ups won't taste good anymore, if Fraggle Rock was ever rockin', if that teen soap opera Swan's Crossing was totally lame, and if He-Man every really had the power. But that's just me wondering - and until whenever "then" is ... I'll still be shocked that Rafael says "Damn!"