You don't know much about me. In fact, I've never even commented on your journal before. (But I think we met at a party.)
What you don't know about me... Hmm..
I'm 29 and still have my first teddy bear sitting on the dresser next to my bed. His name is "Radar", though I have no recollection of how he got that name. That *is* the name of Big Bird's teddy bear on Sesame Street and so that seems most likely. Possibly, I thought that all teddy bears were named that.
This was around the same time that I had two bunnies. I knew in my little five-year-old head that a good name for a bunny would be an action verb, but I was pretty short on them at the time. As a result, I named my bunnies "Stop" and "Go".
Look, now you have *two* things about me. Oops. Please provide one about you in change and we'll call it even.
My dad read bedtime stories to me and my brother until I was in high school. He read us the Narnia books and Lord of the Rings and Sherlock Holmes and Asimov. He read us the Prydain books (The Book of Three, the Black Cauldron, etc) when I was about nine -- I remember this because I had a stuffed cat named Spikey, and the character Fflewddur Fflam is always described as having "spiky yellow hair."
I especially loved Prydan when I was a kid. In fact, I refused to read "The High King" until I was in high school because I was so traumatized by the series ending that I couldn't open the book.
I can't tell you my unfathomable levels of disappointment with the Disney movie. I bet they have the rights locked up for eternity too, so we'll never see one done right.
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Date: 2007-12-31 09:53 pm (UTC)What you don't know about me... Hmm..
I'm 29 and still have my first teddy bear sitting on the dresser next to my bed. His name is "Radar", though I have no recollection of how he got that name. That *is* the name of Big Bird's teddy bear on Sesame Street and so that seems most likely. Possibly, I thought that all teddy bears were named that.
This was around the same time that I had two bunnies. I knew in my little five-year-old head that a good name for a bunny would be an action verb, but I was pretty short on them at the time. As a result, I named my bunnies "Stop" and "Go".
Look, now you have *two* things about me. Oops. Please provide one about you in change and we'll call it even.
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:19 pm (UTC)My dad read bedtime stories to me and my brother until I was in high school. He read us the Narnia books and Lord of the Rings and Sherlock Holmes and Asimov. He read us the Prydain books (The Book of Three, the Black Cauldron, etc) when I was about nine -- I remember this because I had a stuffed cat named Spikey, and the character Fflewddur Fflam is always described as having "spiky yellow hair."
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:33 am (UTC)I can't tell you my unfathomable levels of disappointment with the Disney movie. I bet they have the rights locked up for eternity too, so we'll never see one done right.
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Date: 2008-01-01 11:47 pm (UTC)My first teddy bear has the same name, and totally for the same reason.
Maybe all teddy bears really *are* named Radar.
(and I think that counts as something people don't know about me as well)