Making toys
Dec. 12th, 2002 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetLast night J. was dinnering with Silas and my Athenaeum (*) responsibilities ended early, so I went home to work a bit on my prospectus (I think I have a conceptual breakthrough on how to cut one overlong section while making it more meaningful, so hooray for that). I worked until 10, and then got out materials to work on Mage props. I turned on the television to watch "Whose Line," which I figured would be just diverting enough for the task at hand; also, it had been a month or so since I watched it, and so the prospects of seeing them do the damn Irish Drinking Song or Ho(e?)-Down again weren't so bleak as they might have been.
Instead of Drew Carey and co., however, I saw a Rankin-Bass stop-motion puppet thing, one of those "Secret Origins of Santa with Song" deals that we've probably all seen many of. This one was one I hadn't seen before, which confused me at first.
I have since realized that that is because it dated to 1985 -- although it looks much older -- and thus was a few years past my "watch new animated Christmas specials" phase (although such a phase can perhaps be said to have returned now that I am in my 30s).
Anyway, it was "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus", apparently based on a Baum story. Perhaps those of you somewhat younger than I will be entirely familiar with all of this.
Claus invented toymaking and kept getting mugged by invisible ogre-things when he tried to give his inventions to the children, and then there was a trippy battle between good and evil. And an antlered demigod asked his peers to make Santa immortal. There was a song about how spiffy it was to get a toy wooden cat.
Meanwhile, I made a belt holster for my phantasmatometer, and finished painting the small-sized Etch-a-Sketch silver.
Just another Wednesday night.
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(*) By the way, Sarcy et al., we definitely have the place for January, and I'm waiting to hear about permanency.
Instead of Drew Carey and co., however, I saw a Rankin-Bass stop-motion puppet thing, one of those "Secret Origins of Santa with Song" deals that we've probably all seen many of. This one was one I hadn't seen before, which confused me at first.
I have since realized that that is because it dated to 1985 -- although it looks much older -- and thus was a few years past my "watch new animated Christmas specials" phase (although such a phase can perhaps be said to have returned now that I am in my 30s).
Anyway, it was "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus", apparently based on a Baum story. Perhaps those of you somewhat younger than I will be entirely familiar with all of this.
Claus invented toymaking and kept getting mugged by invisible ogre-things when he tried to give his inventions to the children, and then there was a trippy battle between good and evil. And an antlered demigod asked his peers to make Santa immortal. There was a song about how spiffy it was to get a toy wooden cat.
Meanwhile, I made a belt holster for my phantasmatometer, and finished painting the small-sized Etch-a-Sketch silver.
Just another Wednesday night.
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(*) By the way, Sarcy et al., we definitely have the place for January, and I'm waiting to hear about permanency.
