Walker Who?

I'm sitting in the TV room, feeding the baby while I flip through channels. I stop at AMC, which features a cleaned-up version of Top Gun. I am immediately whisked back to ninth grade, when everything I knew about this movie was based on a Top Gun movie poster my neighbor had. Like I would ever be allowed to watch such a thing. But I didn't need to see the movie to know Tom Cruise Is Awesome. The End.

I am jerked back into the present by Charlie and Augie, who walk into the room and stop dead in their tracks. Maverick and Goose have begun their Jester-chase across the sky and my sons are instantly smitten.

"Boys," I say after a minute, "You need to go back to your homework."

There is no answer. They are in a trance.

"Boys," I say a bit louder, "Go do your homework."

"But Mom," Augie pleads, his eyes fixed on the tube, "it's just too awesome."