Build It
Posted: June 15th, 2010 | Author: Brian | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: blocks, building, childhood, collecting, Kevin Costner, music, nostalgia, small black, Waterworld | 1 Comment »
{ “Despicable Dogs” by Small Black}
Planned Destruction
There was a time, I’m not exactly sure when, somewhere between 2nd and 7th grade, when I spent a lot of time in the basement. Between watching TV and “learning” the computer, I spent hours and hours building stuff. We had a vintage Erector Set and Tinker Toys from my Dad’s boyhood, and I had Legos, and hammers and nails, and all of that stuff that you would expect a young boy to have. But my favorite thing by far was a dark blue plastic milk crate full of wooden blocks. I loved building all kinds of structures, always stretching the finite number of blocks with Jenga-like precision to see how tall, or how large, or how impenetrable I could make it. These were forts, castles, office buildings, cities. Anything was possible.
