{"id":10006,"date":"2015-04-12T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10006"},"modified":"2015-04-12T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:19:36","slug":"the-pip-future-comic-book-movie-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/04\/12\/the-pip-future-comic-book-movie-screenwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pip: Future Comic-Book Movie Screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pip is in a big superhero phase at the moment, and all of his games revolve around being a superhero of some sort. He has also basically memorized a couple of 30-page Justice League books, after demanding them over and over at bedtime. As I did with SteelyKid, I make a game out of reading the wrong words from time to time, and as a result, he can now &#8220;read&#8221; at least two books all the way through, as you can see from this cell-phone video shot at bedtime:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_GvF7InvZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His superhero pretend games have the bizarre inventiveness you expect from a pre-schooler, mixing and matching from all the various media continuities he knows. On the playground one day last week, he was Superman, I was Batman, and SteelyKid was Wonder Woman, and we first had to capture all the characters from Jake and the Never Land Pirates (including the puny pirate heros; asked why, he said &#8220;Well, Jake and Izzy and Cubby were going after the bad guys, but we&#8217;re the superheros, so we&#8217;re the ones who have the get the bad guys.&#8221;). Then we had to rescue Elmo from Cookie Monster, followed by rescuing Big Bird from &#8220;the cookies that sprang into action&#8221; after the capture of Cookie Monster. Then we smashed Zach Bots from Wild Kratts.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, he was either &#8220;Blaster&#8221; or &#8220;Blast Man&#8221; (he couldn&#8217;t quite keep it straight), with the power to blast bad guys by striking the pose seen in the &#8220;featured image&#8221; up top and making a blasting noise. There was a lot of blasting of me in my role as the notorious villain, the Tickler, then I suddenly switched sides, as he asked for advice on who to blast next. I suggested he go to Sesame Street, hoping it would prove to be located in another room of the house. He liked the general plan, but did mention that it was a long way to Sesame Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How are you going to get there?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Can Blast Man fly?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Blast Man doesn&#8217;t have flying power. I have BLAST POWER! I blast bad guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, but how do you get to where the bad guys are? Do you have a plane?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well&#8230;&#8221; (he starts most of his exposition with &#8220;Well&#8230;&#8221;) &#8220;I make a loud noise, and then birds come, and they pick me up in their beaks, and fly me where I need to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked for a demonstration, of course, so he stood up, squawked like an angry blue jay, then spread his arms, and said &#8220;Look! They&#8217;re carrying me! I&#8217;m flying!&#8221; and ran in happy circles around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you might be thinking &#8220;That sounds like a wildly impractical means of travel&#8221; or possibly &#8220;Are those African swallows?&#8221; but really, is it any dumber than Ant-Man? I rest my case. <\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios, hire this kid.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10007\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/04\/blastman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/04\/blastman.jpg\" alt=\"The Pip, striking the poses necessary for using his blasting power to blast bad guys.\" width=\"540\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10007\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blastman.jpg 540w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blastman-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pip, striking the poses necessary for using his blasting power to blast bad guys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pip is in a big superhero phase at the moment, and all of his games revolve around being a superhero of some sort. He has also basically memorized a couple of 30-page Justice League books, after demanding them over and over at bedtime. As I did with SteelyKid, I make a game out of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/04\/12\/the-pip-future-comic-book-movie-screenwriter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pip: Future Comic-Book Movie Screenwriter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35,2,37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-personal","category-pop_culture","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}