Prom Story
This is one of the most interesting things I’ve read lately on the web.
http://slate.msn.com//id/2102375/entry/2102511/
A mid-20’s journalist going to prom with an arbitrary 17-year-old date. I think that he captures the spectacle of prom really well, it’s interesting to compare his account with my prom experiences, and I think that he makes some interesting points about his feelings about being detached from adolescent youth culture.