Old Ken

I haven’t seen Barbie yet, have you? I heard it’s good. My sister (everybody’s sister) played with Barbie growing up. I saw recently where the original Barbie was supposed to be about 19 years old. That sounded about how I remember her. So yeah, I was a little surprised to see that, in the movie, Ken is played by 43 year old Ryan Gosling. Don’t get me wrong, I like Gosling as an actor. And again, I’ve not seen the movie. Maybe Ken is Barbie’s dad in the movie…

Of course the boy’s version of the Barbie doll was G.I. Joe. I never had a GI Joe. But I bet some parents just bought G.I. Joe clothes and put them on big sister’s Ken and gave them to their sons. People didn’t have a lot of money back then…