Update on the boy’s future…
January 18, 2009So, after the chicken incident, I’ve been bugging Gdayboy about his future. His initial answer as to what he wants to be when he grows up is alwasy “A big boy!”, but no longer to we have fowl references.
The last two actually betray the potential for supervillainy… at first, he wanted to be Spider-Man.
Then, apparently, a Robot.
Clearly, I need to be on guard against any future acquaintances of a Sinister nature, especially if they have a Syndicate.
Why, I dread for the future of our world should my son grow up to be a Spider-Man Robot.
Mind you, he could be awfully handy at family gatherings – instal a karaoke system, a carving knif to help with the turkey, and I imagine he’d be able to trim a Christmas tree in a matter of minutes…
JAN 19 EDIT: We may be safe…. this morning, apparently he wants to grow up to be Mickey Mouse.
Do kids today even know who Mickey Mouse is? I mean, the rodent was already pretty irrelevant two decades ago when I was his age… has he seen some kind of resurgence?
Playhouse Disney is one of the better kids channels on TV nowadays (along with Treehouse and TVO during the daytime hours).
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse plays twice a day, and is quite a hit with Gdayboy.
Mickey never really leaves public awareness, regardless of whether he’s in movies or TV shows. That’s the power of the Disney branding machine – he’s on everything from watches to baby diapers, so kids are pretty much surrounded by the character from the get-go even if they don’t watch stuff like MMC (Which I guess is pretty good? Obviously, I had no idea).
It’s kind of insidious in its way…I say this, of course, as someone who has a soft spot for the character.