I am tripping more than you are. Battling razzberries

[SadLuckDame]

Well, I like her too, because she wasn't pretty, but dang was she pretty.
It is that she wasn't afraid to be female and to be female is something to be afraid of, though we all gots to do it.

Makes me hungry for impala now.
It wasn't the crocs to worry about, it was the hippos in the tutu and the color pink.

Thanks, Jack.
Made me happy and that was a difficult thing to do. ha ha, it really was.
Not that you ever believe me when I say it. na na na

[SadLuckDame]

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”

"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”
― A.A. Milne

“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”
― A.A. Milne, The World of Pooh: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner

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I don't know why I never read Pooh as a child. I feel now that I had a deprived childhood.

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

[SadLuckDame]

Ha! I love that one, too.
He is one of the first precursors to the look at the world for a child.

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I have no memory of it as a child. I wish I had read it. I am going to do my best to make sure Isabella Rose gets to read it.

My favorite these days is:

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

[SadLuckDame]

Were there any memorable children's authors that you did have access to as a child? I preferred Winnie the Pooh, Mother Goose, Fairy tales, Dr, Seuss, Berenstain bears and little golden books.

I think I enjoyed short stories, because I had a short attention span, but then I'd let my mind wander with those characters long into the night.

My children liked Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket, Berenstain Bears and classics like Where the Red Fern grows, Shiloh, etc. My children would rather the longer stories and the most of details. We'd spend three nights reading longer books instead of quick story tales. It was like an expedition or sumpin'.

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I wish I had read the Pooh. Well I think I will read it now, cause it is better late than never.

[SadLuckDame]

It was genius that he made a map of the Hundred Acre Wood.
ppp

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he knew his audience.

I stumbled on a whole series of websites about the harry potter novels. a whole subculture out there among young readers devoted to those books. Or maybe the the satire is so deep I will never get it. but I liked their motto a lot
"I have a potion and I am not afraid to use it."

"In for a nickle in for a dime" that is how I found it on Google searching with the quotes.for a phrase I remember hearing at a poker game night in baltimore in a universe far from here.


radio head hail to the chief listening to and typing away

[SadLuckDame]

Alice.

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Watching it now about 1/2 hour into it, amazing graphics or what ever it is called

I got to get comfortable to finish watching, I been sitting here so long my donkey hurts. got to figure out how to sit here with my feet up. Finish it later, morning got away from me again.
this is the way we while away the time in the merry old land of oz

listening to Rythm Sophie

[still.trucking]

I can't believe I watched the whole thing. That was very strange and wonderful, got spooky at the end with the scissors. My favorite bit was when Alice says "this has gone far enough" after the rabbit drives two sticks in her head and starts a fire with her hair to cook his lunch.

[SadLuckDame]

It did get jiggy at the end, right about the time when the lizard creature needed stitched up and his saw dust guts were spilled, I felt for him and them fixing him, then Alice sneaking away. Funny, cause she came across to me as having this rooted knowledge that terrible things just happen. I didn't see her even consider turning back.

What a tough skin this Alice character brought with her to set.

Thinking about the scissors, too. I was entertaining about all of the knobs on the drawers and that magically there is always a tool around sharp or straight enough to pry a drawer open. Then I thought about a lot of kids today would ask for help if a knob fell off, but that is because the times have changed greatly.

Children in the past would solve a lot of their own problems like stuck drawers.
Kids today solve a lot of their own problems with boredom and communication by diving onto technology.

Kids then were lonely, but resourceful. Kids now are entertained, but haven't discovered true problem solving on ownsome, there is no google in a basement.

I was fascinated with the Rabbit licking the watch and getting his guts back to being inside at all times that they spilled and then Alice licking her blood, making it the same thing to me.

[stilltrucking]

It was a good film. So hypnotic and magic but real too, she was a brave and curious little girl, thanks for the link to it. All those scientific laboratory jars skulls on exhibit, that coach with the skuls, yeah the lizard too, the latin name for rabitts I think, Lepus ? seems as she was in a university or college or maybe museum. she put her finger in one jar but did not lick it, yet she tasted the ink

Watching something trippy today too.

[SadLuckDame]

When the skulls of the animals came out with the coach, I first thought Day of the Dead and the holiday, but it did turn more lab experiment. I thought, well at least she was smelling the stuff before she drank it. It was weird though, like octopus ink.