http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VH_vqyAP0
Anyways.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss9WD5vZyh4&t=4m12s
If you don’t want to watch SJ working on her alphabet, skip ahead to 4:12 for the meat of this thing.
I really like this exchange.
SJ: “She has tissue around her like a ghost.”
M: “Why does she have tissue around her.”
SJ: “Because she’s a ghost.”
But the real heart-melter is this bit.
M: “Will you say hi to Uncle Joe?”
SJ: “I can’t see him.”
M: “Just say, ‘Hi, Uncle Joe!'”
SJ: “I want to see his face.”
I am a big fan of her gibberish song, too.
I recently sent SJ a postcard that looked like this:
It said something like:
Dear SJ, how are you? I saw this postcard and I thought of you. Isn’t it funny AND pretty? Roosters aren’t supposed to be pink! Ha ha ha ha ha! Anyway, that’s all for now! Is this your first postcard? Love, Uncle Joe.
Sure, it’s not the most gripping postcard ever written, but she’s 3. Play to your audience. I thought it was fun.
I hadn’t heard about it from my brother, so I asked him. This was his response.
YES. And then he sent me this.
Some days you just miss the shit out of your family, you know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7LJbez9ZmA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBdBu1Da-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCIiGeVStUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZvs1KsSnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUFRIlJrw5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9fUKiivFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4Gtrq29N0
I am not even touching the depth of these videos. They feel like some David Lynch surreal shit when you sit and watch them over and over and over like I have been doing. I am so fascinated by this guy’s obsession with video taping his regular fast food meals on the dingy carpet of his dorm (?) room. I can’t stop watching. He’s some sort of insane genius gonzo outside-art filmmaker. But he doesn’t know it.
“Anyways, I’m pretty hungry, so I’m gonna eat and that’s the end of the video.”
I know. We all are. It happens. Try to relax a little with this soothing Dalek relaxation tape. Let your worries be EXTERMINATED.
Really. I laughed aloud at work.
This gem comes from illustrator, artist, and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. You might remember her from the illustrated review of War Horse that’s been floating around. I absolutely love this drawing. I e-mailed Lisa promises of my undying love if she’d sell me a print. I suppose we’ll see what happens. I want to hang it in my office. Some interweb snooping reveals that she grew up in Palo Alto, a town neighboring where I grew up. Funny.