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mrissa:
1. Was there a toy you always wanted as a kid but didn't get? Does it seem awesome now or kind of random?
My mother had a ban against barbies, mainly based on her dislike of the early ones from when she was a kid (which I agree are entirely hideous.) Sometime along when I got out of college I started collecting yardsale barbies and making them into caricatures ("thieving gypsy barbie" or "early christian martyr barbie" and the like) which are still in a box somewhere in the basement.
2. What is your favorite movie from before you were born?
I don't have a good answer for this one... maybe something from the Marx Brothers? I was very fond of "Bringing Up Baby" when I was a kid, but I remember being sort of disappointed in it the last time I saw it. If you'd said TV show, it would have been Disney's Zorro. I suspect there are many old movies I ought to see; I just don't quite have any way of working out what they are.
3. What non-offensive cultural phenomenon do you most wish you could get, but it just leaves you cold?
Hm... Buffy, maybe? There are large swaths of pop culture that I just don't get (most movies, TV, sports...) but some of the more iconic spec fic TV shows seem like I ought to enjoy them if only I had the patience to sit down and watch them without compulsively getting up and wandering away from the TV after five minutes or so.
4. What is/are your favorite picture book(s)?
I could fill up about three feet of shelf-space with favorite picture books, but to pick a couple at sort-of-random: Greek Myths for Young Children by Marcia Williams (with little cartoony violent death in the pictures!), the Maple Hill Farm books, Sendak's What do you Say, Dear?, van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick... now I need to go spend the rest of the morning reading picture books.
5. My godson is 10, and it is disappointingly another year of not being a prime number, so we have tried to tell him some good things about being 10. What was a good thing about when you were 10?
In my family getting to "double digits" was sort of a rite of passage thing, granting more allowance & an hour later bedtime, but I suspect it's a bit late to sell that to your godson (or his parents.) I don't really recall a lot else about being ten in particular, though that may have been the year I decided I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, and I'm fairly sure that was when I started playing violin (but that was a school calendar thing, not related to age in particular.)
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mrissa:1. Was there a toy you always wanted as a kid but didn't get? Does it seem awesome now or kind of random?
My mother had a ban against barbies, mainly based on her dislike of the early ones from when she was a kid (which I agree are entirely hideous.) Sometime along when I got out of college I started collecting yardsale barbies and making them into caricatures ("thieving gypsy barbie" or "early christian martyr barbie" and the like) which are still in a box somewhere in the basement.
2. What is your favorite movie from before you were born?
I don't have a good answer for this one... maybe something from the Marx Brothers? I was very fond of "Bringing Up Baby" when I was a kid, but I remember being sort of disappointed in it the last time I saw it. If you'd said TV show, it would have been Disney's Zorro. I suspect there are many old movies I ought to see; I just don't quite have any way of working out what they are.
3. What non-offensive cultural phenomenon do you most wish you could get, but it just leaves you cold?
Hm... Buffy, maybe? There are large swaths of pop culture that I just don't get (most movies, TV, sports...) but some of the more iconic spec fic TV shows seem like I ought to enjoy them if only I had the patience to sit down and watch them without compulsively getting up and wandering away from the TV after five minutes or so.
4. What is/are your favorite picture book(s)?
I could fill up about three feet of shelf-space with favorite picture books, but to pick a couple at sort-of-random: Greek Myths for Young Children by Marcia Williams (with little cartoony violent death in the pictures!), the Maple Hill Farm books, Sendak's What do you Say, Dear?, van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick... now I need to go spend the rest of the morning reading picture books.
5. My godson is 10, and it is disappointingly another year of not being a prime number, so we have tried to tell him some good things about being 10. What was a good thing about when you were 10?
In my family getting to "double digits" was sort of a rite of passage thing, granting more allowance & an hour later bedtime, but I suspect it's a bit late to sell that to your godson (or his parents.) I don't really recall a lot else about being ten in particular, though that may have been the year I decided I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, and I'm fairly sure that was when I started playing violin (but that was a school calendar thing, not related to age in particular.)
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