Conversation this morning w/ my 2 year old daughter… [from an old ILX thread]
E5: What this?
E3: Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky.
E5: What Dusty-dusty about?
E3: A man who’s sad because he can’t make any friends.
E5: Him sad in his room?
E3: Yeah, pretty much.
E5: Where him friends?
E3: They went away because he was mean to them.
E5: Him get mad?
E3: Yes, sometimes he gets mad.
E5: (thinks for a moment) Read to me?
E3: …
I like how the story was just genuinely appealing to the little girl. Like, kids stories often deal with circumstances and character psychologies that just have nothing to do with real life, whereas this deals with something real that, as a two year old, she probably hasn’t confronted before.
Ok see yall again in three weeks or something.
3 months ago
“Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone’s neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?!” -Jack Handey
4 months ago
Hey Tumblr readers- If you can endure a 30 second U2 video that preceeds it, check out Blowjob Roadshow, now on Atom.com’s weekly showdown thing. If you vote for it (which requires registration, apologies), then Atom’ll give the other filmmakers and myself some money and maybe put it on Comedy Central. Link is www.atom.com/showdown.
4 months ago