I Wanna Be A Material Girl, Too
By Glinda
Pictured above are Madonna and her daughter, leaving a restaurant. They were celebrating Lourdes’ birthday, and had already pampered themselves during a rumored six hour session at One the Spa located within the ultra-pricey Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, CA.
I think the biggest thing my parents ever did for my birthday was throw me a skate party. You know, rollerskating. To answer your question, yes, I am old. Back in the day, skating parties were a fairly big deal. You got to invite 10 of your closest friends to skate with you and share a lunch of cold hot dogs, warm coke, and stale popcorn. And I’ll never forget that I invited one boy. Why? Because it was my birthday and I wanted that one boy to skate with me. I pictured us, skating hand in hand while “Against All Odds” crackled through the speakers, and the disco ball bathed us in its glow. But no, he had to go and have a crush on one of the other girls I had stupidly invited, so I spent the entire party fuming and plotting my revenge, including but not limited to possibly bashing said girl over the head with my skates.
Why, why could my mother not have been a world-famous singer/questionable actress/entertainer? I mean, screw the rollerskating, I’d have taken a “revitalizing treatment of Swedish Massage and Seaweed Scrub & Buff treatment, concluding in a Tropical Rain Rinse” over Gary Ferguson any day.
October 18th, 2007 at 7:06 am
I want Madge’s shoes and coat, but not the huge, tacky bag. I know it cost more than my annual salary, but it’s gaudy and ugly. She could put both kids in there and still have room for Gwyneth Paltrow.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Glinda, you little Tanya Harding of the roller rink!
When I was Lourdes’ age, I would have rather died than go sit naked in a spa getting treatments with my mom for six hours. (And I love my mom.) Now, if she had sent me with my friends, that would have been cool.
Incidentally, I think Madonna looks ridiculous in this get-up. Too… costumey. (Where’s clyde, Bonnie?) The individual pieces are nice but the combo isn’t working for me.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I think the girl belonging to the pants in the middle wants to be a material girl, too.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Sometimes Maya and I will go get a mani/pedi combo together (like, maybe once a year) and it ROCKS.
I love Lourdes cute little toes here, too.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I think the years I turned 9, 10, & 11 I had skate parties. It was THE thing to do!
October 18th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
God, how I pine for the days of skate parties. Those were the shiznit. Little kids’ over-the-top birthday parties these days make me want to put a bullet through my head — and these are only “regular people’s” kids that I’m talking about. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t live in LA.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I remember skating parties. I never had one of those myself, but oh, the memories! “Beautiful Girl” by Van Halen will forever evoke the skating rink for me.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I had skating parties when I was a kid… I loved when they played “Walk Like an Egyptian”. Ahhh memories…
October 18th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
If it’s too cold not to wear a coat, it’s too cold to wear flip-flops. That is the rule for people who don’t know enough not to wear flip-flops in public.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Skate parties aren’t that old-fashioned. I had rollerskating and ice-skating parties when I was young, like 12 years ago.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I wanted that one boy to skate with me. I pictured us, skating hand in hand while “Against All Odds” crackled through the speakers, and the disco ball bathed us in its glow. But no, he had to go and have a crush on one of the other girls I had stupidly invited
Sexual intrigue at the roller rink! I hate it when that happens. You just have to swallow your pride and wait for the “All Skate”.
I went to loads of rollerskating parties in elementary school, usually on Sat. afternoon - in our small town, the roller rink was *the* place for older elementary kids to see and be seen on Friday and Saturday nights, especially once MTV came in, because the rink would broadcast loads of videos. I’ll never forget the night Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video premiered - the rink showed it and everyone (several hundred kids!) was standing or sitting on the floor of the rink itself, watching agape. “Jump” by Van Halen is the song that always takes me back there . . .
You had to go all the way into Dallas for an ice-skating party but my parents gave me one when I was 12 (all girls) - that was a lot of fun!
I sure hope Lourdes gets to go roller skating sometime - good times . . .