Video: The reason for the season ...

[nebroadwe]

I mean, who doesn't think winter is for snow? Not me!

ETA: On a related note, the best children's book about playing in the snow EVER is still in print. Given proper encouragement, I will recite swathes of it from memory ... ("The hill is long. The hill is steep ... [pause to take in the full effect of the illustration of the dog lying on the sled the trudging children are pulling up said hill] We think our dog has gone to sleep.")

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

...I was unaware Ralph Bakshi drew for Sesame Street....

But I may have to get that Snow book for my nieces. They need books.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

...I was unaware Ralph Bakshi drew for Sesame Street....

Everyone worked on Sesame Street. That's why it's filled with win.

But I may have to get that Snow book for my nieces. They need books.

I can also recommend, for the same age group, Stan and Jan Berenstain's Bike Lesson, which contains much sage advice for operators of any sort of vehicle. ("You come to a puddle. What should you do? Should you go around ... or ride right through?" [illustration of bicycle-riding bear up to his handlebars in said puddle] "It's not so good to ride right through.")

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Mm, I'm not too keen on the Berenstein Bears. Dr. Suess and Suess-inspired books are good, though. :D Though I didn't like Suess myself until...college. My sense of whimsy in words didn't develop until around then.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

This is the only Berenstain book I ever got into -- the later ones in particular strike me as over-cutesy. And I'm with you on Seuss! I don't think children can really appreciate his genius. I used to despise "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," but now it's one of my favorite Christmas pieces (both written and filmed -- Chuck Jones, Soooper-Genius! Must get his autobiography out of the library one of these days ...)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I always liked the animated version of Grinch but I never, ever read the Seuss books until college.

Mmmmm, Chuck Jones....

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I wasn't all that into silliness in stories as a child -- I wanted PLOT with a side of FENCING, FIGHTING, TORTURE, REVENGE, GIANTS, MONSTERS, CHASES, ESCAPES, TRUE LOVE (as long as it didn't get mushy) AND MIRACLES. Humor was optional. (Except in Bugs Bunny cartoons, where it was required.)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...it sounds very much as if you're quoting from The Princess Bride.

I think you and I would've gotten on rather well as children. :D How were you at playing Star Trek with your mother's birth control pill packet (to my childhood eyes, they looked just like Trek communicators...just...you know...pink)?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...it sounds very much as if you're quoting from The Princess Bride.

What? No, no -- I totally made that up. Totally.

I think you and I would've gotten on rather well as children. :D

That's entirely possible. I probably would have gotten into much more trouble hanging out with you than I ever managed on my own, I suspect. :-D

How were you at playing Star Trek with your mother's birth control pill packet (to my childhood eyes, they looked just like Trek communicators...just...you know...pink)?

Uhhh ... see above about relative amounts of trouble, the getting into of.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Trouble? I'll have you know I was an exemplary 'young adult' as a child. Quiet, well-read, intent on taking over the world....

I told New Boss about playing communicator with Mom's b.c. pills and thought he was going to burst a liver, laughing.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Trouble? I'll have you know I was an exemplary 'young adult' as a child. Quiet, well-read, intent on taking over the world....

One advantage of a rich interior life: you can plot the downfall of your enemies all you want and still maintain your straight-arrow reputation. ("Brain, brain, brain, brain ...")

I told New Boss about playing communicator with Mom's b.c. pills and thought he was going to burst a liver, laughing.

Careful. You don't want to lose him to liver failure now you've found him. :-)