I have dark curly hair and a sort of generic face. Pretty much everywhere I've gone as an adult, someone has said, "Hey, you look like Clark Kent." This happens in different places and comes from people who do not know each other. One co-worker back in my IHOP days started calling me Clark as a nickname. It's not all that flattering to be associated with Clark Kent. He's a nice guy, but a total bungler. When I saw _Kill Bill 2_, I thought the lecture on Superman/Clark Kent was brilliant, and it also made me even less fond of being compared to Clark Kent.
Little while back, I was wearing jeans, a white T-shirt with a plaid, wool coat over it, unbuttoned, and a baseball cap. Jae looked at me, smiled fondly, and said, "You look so Pa Kent." We watched Smallville for awhile, and she definately meant the John Schneider, younger, handsome version of Jonathan Kent, vs. the elder Pa Kent we've seen in other media. Still, marks a differnt era in my life, I think, the switch from Clark to Pa. More flattering, too.
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So you want to catalogue life stages that are things we all experience, but aren't the traditionally acknowledged stages. Instead of "married with kids," you'd note the stage where "grandmothers can be hot." And the stage where new music is no longer as good as the music of your youth. The stage where you first refer to college students as "kids." And, of course, the stage where you start to be compared to Pa instead of Clark. I like it.
I see it now. You have a website, people contribute their own little moments of revelation that they are in a new life stage, you share some on the website and eventually release the collection, perhaps as a PDF download.
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