[stylist] Rub It In chapter

[Brad Dunsé]

Mister Potato Head. Now, there was a riveting 
toy, decisions, decisions, which mustache should 
I poke in his face this time. A toy that would 
keep a kid's buns riveted to the flor for a good 
3 seconds, just long enough to find out the 
missing piece to the incredible edible machine 
wasn't in there. When I was a kid we had these 
little hand crank movie projectors. They couldn't 
have cost much because my parents didn't have a 
lot, but I had one of them. Now there's a 
toy  where you could get tucked in by mom, and 
the minute she closed the door, you'd ravage your 
toy box, find the projector, jump in the closet 
and spin you up a nice Bugs Bunny silent cartoon 
projecting against the back wall of the closet 
between  the sleeves of your corduroy jacket and 
sweaters with those elbow patches  on them 
hanging there. Can't stelthfully do that with 
vibrating football, not that one would actually 
want to, past the first time of turning  that buzz machine on anyway.

Brad


On 12/19/2011  08:20 AM Chris Kuell said...
>Thanks to all who took the time to read and comment on my chapter.
>
>Brenda, I think you are right about that 
>transition--thanks for pointing it out. 
>Transitions are a weak spot for me. In my 
>critique group, several people have commented on 
>how I sometimes just seem to beam Dan from one place to another.
>
>Brad, I think you're probably a year or maybe 
>two older than me, but we were both kids in the 
>sixties, teens in the seventies, and wondered 
>what the hell was happening to music in the 80s 
>technopop era. At least there was Stevie Ray 
>Vaughn and the Black Crowes. A book you might 
>enjoy is Bill Bryson's, 'The Life and Times of 
>the Thunderbolt Kid'. It's a creative memoir of 
>Bryson's youth in Iowa during the 50s. There is 
>one chapter about how crappy the toys of that 
>time were--slinkies, electric football, silly 
>putty, Mr. Potato Head... I read it this past 
>summer, and while I was power washing my house 
>one day I started laughing out loud so hard my 
>neighbor came over to see if I was drunk. It was 
>at the point when he tells a story about Lincoln 
>logs, and anyone who has read the book will remember that part. Good stuff.
>
>chris
>
>
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