13 posts tagged “kids”
Although, I have to say that this comment left on the video is going in to my "all time favesies" category
Seeing that a little boy named Will took the time to include the message "Meowhead" on his charity Christmas orniment at Coffee Bean. All the other kids just wrote their names. If "Meowhead" is something the kids are saying, I don't want to know. I'd like to think that Will came up with this on his own and that it has its own special meaning.
Will's parents should read my blog and know that other people appreciate the awesomeness that they created.
"Meowhead"! It fucking kills me!
This is sad, but what personalizes it to me more than just having a mother or having dealt with significant loss is that it was found in Arlington, MA, a town that I grew up about a mile from. I wonder if I knew the kid, not that it really matters... but still. I'm thinking of every kid with a dead mom I ever met and wondering if I hung out with them enough.
When I see things like this it bums me out that I was never a child actor, 'cause they'd never call me into the audition for something like this now, and so I've probably missed my chance to do anything super cool by like, at least 14 years.
So here's something fun and creepy:
OK, that wasn't totally not dark, but this is still kind of fun.
I heard about Kid Nation through pageants. I didn't hear about the ghost town at first — I just heard about going away for 40 days with 40 kids without your parents. But I was surprised that everybody ended up making so much controversy that we were by ourselves, because that's not true! There were more camera crew and producers than there were kids. There was only one time I was upset with the producers — when we were fixing to kill the chickens and they were telling me to say ''Ugly chickens deserve to die'' and all that kind of stuff. I didn't realize they'd actually make it out on TV to sound that bad. But when I did see it, I was like, ''Whoa! That's not how that went.'' I wasn't okay with how they made me look. I didn't act like that the whole time. Sometimes I did, but I was 10! When the show was on TV, my parents were like, ''Taylor, did you really do that?'' And I would actually tell them how it went, if the producers told me to say that. Sometimes my friends would help me when people would come up to me and make fun of me and say ''Deal with it'' or ''Ugly chickens deserve to die.'' It's like my friends kind of knew that some of it wasn't real. Even though I was the bad person, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so I'd love to go back. It was fun.
- Taylor from Kid Nation
I miss that bitch.
