the ewok incident.

She was speaking in that important tone of hers which gave me the impression that what she was saying would likely be pivotal to my future success in the class…but I wasn’t listening. For some reason my mind had decided to conjure up a memory I had forgotten I had made. It was of the time I was at Disney World and I asked Wicket the Ewok for his signature. He quickly pulled a leaf off of a tree and stuck it between the pages of my little autograph book. I assume he thought he was being a clever little tree-dweller, but I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I felt quite snubbed. Needless to say my I have never loved the Ewoks quite the same since…

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May 26, 2003

Once I stood in line to get Minnie Mouse’s autograph for what felt like half the day when I was 5. It was the happiest moment of my young life when I got to hug her. The second happiest was getting a life-size doll of me. Didn’t look a thing like me though, so I nemed her Cynthia. Hey – you said random thoughts…

I think the idea was that Ewoks have never invented writing. 🙂 They certainly seemed in the movie to have a purely oral culture… Still, while artistic and clever, it wasn’t too politic, was it?

April 11, 2018

This memory still stings, by the way.