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Maurice Sendak, RIP

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
― Maurice Sendak

When my girls were young, I would read “Where the Wild Things Are” to them every night. It never got old. It never got tired. There is an openness to it that makes it timeless and ageless. Mr. Sendak didn’t believe in childhood. He believed in human beings.

I said anything I wanted because I don’t believe in children I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe that there’s a demarcation. ‘Oh you mustn’t tell them that. You mustn’t tell them that.’ You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true you tell them.
― Maurice Sendak

I am overcome with nostalgia and sweet melancholy. I remember being a young mother with babes. It was the most profound time of my life. That is, until this year. Both of my babes have or are having their own little ones. And I will most definitely read “Where the Wild Things Are” to my beautiful grandsons.

Rest in Peace and Thank You, Mr. Sendak.

Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Here is a video from Bill Moyers interviewing Maurice Sendak:

Dave Boyer of the Washington Unification End-Times Church Newsletter read this thing on Bill Kristol’s dumb son-in-law’s internet hobby blog about how Barack Obama was personally transvaginal wanding lady visitors at the White Hizzouse to see if they were pregnant, possibly by Republican semen firehose Bill Johnson. Dave Boyer, who works for a Kimchee Jesus, could have called the White House to confirm this story – but … boring and also work -, so he ran with that baby, and by ‘baby’ I don’t mean the end result of Bill Johnson’s baby batter:

Pregnant women are not required to count their fetuses as full human beings when registering for White House tours, contrary to some reports suggesting otherwise, the Secret Service said.

The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday posted a copy of an email from White House Visitors Office director Ellie Schafer to a Capitol Hill staffer explaining the process for registering for a tour of the White House. The email indicates that pregnant women must include a baby in the count of guests if the child is expected to be born by the time of the tour, a line that some conservative news outlets say is akin to a pro-choice White House treating fetuses as people.

For Dave Boyer, this is like that time when Congressman John Fleming thought an Onion story about an $8 billion Planned Parenthood Abortionplex was real and twitter-twatted it out to his constituents who are presumably stupider then himself. The big difference is that, unlike The Free Beacon, The Onion has some standards and credibility, not that Dave Boyer cares because, pffft, he works for the Moonie Times and it’s not like he has room to talk…