[Dot waving]

It started strong, where the narrator said the kid's stuffed animals were the subjects of bizarre experiments.

It's so shiny and chrome!

It's a wonderful book.

My mother collected Japanese prints. (There was a time they were used to wrap dishes, which were actually seen as more valuable.) Most of them are beautifully composed, but they don't illuminate me as Hokusai does. He does occasionally cover "the Floating World," but I like his studies of everyday life at the margins…

(Well, I can't remember the exact phrasing . . .)

I plugged in several quotes from older movies, and it could find none of them.

Sings:
Take my hand,
I'm no stranger to stereotypes . . .

"The Adventures of Robin Hood"? "Bringing up Baby"? "The Young in Heart"? Why not!

Buster Brown? Meta from the beginning (he justifies his pranks through the "Resolved" conclusion), and he _never_ says that he's sorry.

But Tom Petty is so Lucky.

I liked "The Downer" because it really had the feel of depression, without being really depressing — isolation and hopelessness. I disliked it because it seemed to be saying "Snap out of it."

Puppets gravitate to this article.

"I'm different from most people! Pain hurts me!" — I'm not the Snowman.

It's fallen in the water!

They didn't know then that Wilson was a warmonger, remember. "He kept us out of war."

"Tamzarian" sounds Armenian.

Like _Taran Wanderer_?

His secret was that he kept on working. (The secret to keeping on working is . . .) He's on "Mama" in the late '40's and early '50's; on children's records and in countless small roles in the '60's; "Eight is Enough" in the '70's . . .

Try _Taran Wanderer_. Much better than the first book; though not right for a movie.