I'm a day closer to inexistence! [blows party whistle ]
If you wanna give me a birthday present, read and comment on my last two showcases I put a lot of effort into those. Especially the last one since that was for squidmanescape as opposed to the first one which was just a general thing about Channel Zero's pastas.
My birthday is the same as Dr. Seuss's birthday. Did you know Dr. Seuss was pretty racist against the japanese but took a trip to japan during world war 2 to write an article about life in schools for TIME magazine, and had a bit of an epiphany? Returning home after that was the inspiration to write "Horton Hears a Who" which, if you read under that lense instead of under a general tolerance and belief lense i think most people read it under, can be pretty fascinating. It's lines like:
~ I know there’s a person down there. And, what’s more,
Quite likely there’s two. Even three. Even four.
Quite likely a family, for all that we know!
A family with children just starting to grow.
So, please,” Horton said, “as a favour to me,
Try not to disturb them. Just let them be.”
That totally change meaning if you read it with that perspective.
His first published book was "A Pocket Book of Boners" which i think is hilarious to see people's reactions to. That was back when boner meant "embarrassing happenstance" and the book is just full of little cartoons of people messing up.
The classic rhyming scheme of da DA da da DA da da DA da da DA da da DA, (but you KNOW that that GRINCH was so SLY and so SLICK) was inspired by the engines of a ship as he was traveling home from getting engaged. He thought of the little rhyme " And that is a story that no one can beat. And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street." on the ship and expanded it into the book And to Think That I Saw it on Mullberry Street when he got home.
That's all my Dr Seuss trivia for the day. Happy birthday Dr Seuss and me.