{"id":186,"date":"2007-10-02T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2007-10-02T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:27:23","slug":"hey-hey-my-friend-where-are-you-going-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/hey-hey-my-friend-where-are-you-going-today\/","title":{"rendered":"hey hey my friend where are you going today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings programs! Lately Gus has been repeatedly watching (and Jonathan and I repeatedly mocking) Tron<\/i><\/a>. How did we get here?<\/p>\n

It all started with the pirates. Gus has been big into pirates for a few months now, and I’m not at all sure why. It’s not those stupid Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i> movies, he has not even seen them, honest! (Though we do loves us some Johnny Depp in this house.) I guess it’s probably that every other kid loves pirates too, so the iconography is all around us.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I spent ONE SOLID HOUR putting the lego pirate ship<\/a> together while Gus asked if it was finished yet approximately once every 2.5 minutes. This lego ship was mine when I was little*. We gave it to Gus as a recycled gift last xmas. Yay for recycled gifts! Esp. legos, since the new ones are so much lamer than the old ones.<\/p>\n

* In this case “little” = “in college” and if you are so fusty to think that college students shouldn’t be playing with toys then I guess I will never show you my rad yo-yo collection, either.<\/p>\n

Recently Jonathan has informed me that actually, this lego ship is NOT a pirate ship, but rather they are the “good guys” in the navy. To which I reply: don’t ask me, I’m just a girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back to the legos. After the (non-)pirate ship was finished Gus wanted to make me build more elaborate lego sets. So I tackled the lego Boba Fett’s ship (Slave 1) that Jonathan bought for himself a few years ago. This has far fewer parts and was much much easier to build. Gus even successfully begged to be given the little lego Boba Fett that’s been keeping watch on one of Jonathan’s bookshelves lo these many years.<\/p>\n

Of course Gus started asking questions about Boba Fett, the ship, the little carbon-frozen Han Solo lego, etc. Jonathan gave him the basic plot outline of Star Wars<\/i> in about 20 minutes. Of course we love the original 3 movies, but the story sounds SO cheesy when you relate it verbally.<\/p>\n

Yes, we are the only people in the world who have not yet let their almost-6 yr old watch Star Wars<\/i>. Gus is very into swords and guns right now and it just seems wiser to wait until his fascination has died down. But I’m sure this makes me a horrible square and he’ll be the last kid in the world to see it and everyone will laugh at him.<\/p>\n

So we scrabbled around the house for “something in space” for Gus to watch. Tron<\/i> was the substitute we settled on. Why do we even own Tron<\/i>? I think a couple of you know the answer to that question, but I’ll share it with the class. Last millennium I worked at Disney Online, and I used my employee discount to buy 3 videos: Freaky Friday<\/i>**, Bedknobs & Broomsticks<\/i>***, and Tron<\/i>. Lisa bought Tron<\/i> too, and we joked that we probably cleaned out the stock.<\/p>\n

** Which I cannot even watch anymore, even though I love it, because it reminds me of the remake, which I also love, which makes me want to shake some sense into Lindsay Lohan.<\/p>\n

*** A classic! Also used to fan the flames of Gus’s swords-n-guns mania by fast forwarding to the end where the mysteriously un-aging Angela Lansbury uses her mad magic skillz to chase off the Germans with ghost soldiers.<\/p>\n

Tron<\/i> is not in space, but close enough, apparently, because Gus is hooked. And it is hilariously useful for illustrating some of the weird things from our youth that Gus can’t believe, e.g. that you used to have to leave the house to play video games on a big giant machine and after you died you had to put another quarter in to keep playing! This blows his little mind.<\/p>\n

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