So Winona Ryder is playing the Mom on Stranger Things, which made me feel pretty old because I was like, “Winona Ryder as a mom!?!?”  because she is cute girl from my generation.  But you know, I was like, well, yeah, that checks out.  I’m old.  She’s even older.  We’re old people now.  It just feels weird to see someone who in a lot of ways was a symbol of disaffected youth playing a distraught mother.  And really this post is a lot about Stranger Things because I watched the first episode and wow I love it so far.  I have never posted Winona Ryder before because it has never felt right, she isn’t really mine.  She belongs to my generation but she is one of those people some people feel so intensely for and I did not.  I like her.  I just think I was always a little put off by how many people I knew who seemed to lust after her because she felt less obvious to lust after.  Like, it was an intellectual lust.  Which is stupid for lots of reasons, because if you’re just doing something to seem a certain way you’re still just following a crowd.  And if I am reacting to it I am still just basing my reactions on the reactions of others.  And finally, who the fuck am I to criticizing over intellectualizing lust.  Look at me.  Look at what I do here.  But, since so many people intensely care about her she’s the sort of person I never though I’d post because it would make me feel like a poser.  Besides, this isn’t 1993, she doesn’t really come up that often in things I watch.  She is in this though and so far I have found her performance pretty affecting so far.  I find as I get older missing kids and grieving parents hit me a lot harder than they did once upon a time.  I guess I have always liked horror but our fears mutate as we get older.  The giant monster is less scary than the realization that you can’t protect the vulnerable people in your life.  It’s good though, I recommend it.  And I like Winona Ryder in it as well.  Today I want to fuck Winona Ryder.