John Holbo talks about a movie experience with his daughter, and he mentions that his daughter proposed a geode-based economy for her fantasy kingdom. I'm sufficiently ignorant of geological terminology to wonder what a geode is, so I looked it up on Google and eventually found, well, a geode-based economy. Or at least someone selling break-at-home geodes. Yes, people actually pay for rocks to be delivered to their home so that they can break them. Sounds fun.
(NOTE: I am IN NO WAY associated with the sellers of this product. Really. No, I mean really, I'm not.)
Nonono, it wasn't Zoë's idea. The actual plot of the Barbie movie is that the kingdom will be saved from bankruptcy by selling geodes that Barbie finds in the exhausted gold-mine. Would I kid about a thing like that?
Posted by: jholbo | May 03, 2005 at 11:40 PM
Oh, oops. Sorry. I think I wasn't willing to let myself believe that it was an actual plot of a movie. But I grew up with brothers and mostly male cousins, so I had no exposure to anything like Barbie movies or what they could possibly be like. Thank you for broadening my horizons. I'll never look at Barbie the same again.
Posted by: Mandos | May 04, 2005 at 01:17 AM