He was enclosing a "Flat T," and asked that I take him around lots of places, photograph him, put the pictures in the booklet, and return it all by the end of the month.
Flat T is a 10", hand-made, hand-drawn, paper-cut-out figure, carefully colored, with a cutout t-shirt and blue shorts pasted on. His head was folded over at the neck, face down on his chest, so he would fit in the envelope. The booklet is a stapled set of blank quarter-pages with a yellow paper cover.
My housemate is going to take Flat T to work with him to Half-Price Books. Flat T will buy books from customers... work the cash register... shelve books... read a comic. (Jeff's sections right now are Comics, Travel, and Children.) I'll bring Flat T to sit in at a meeting at Microsoft, look at the drawings for a game, and play an Xbox. At home, he will get in the fridge and help take out an apple. If you happen to be related to T -- you know who you are :) -- don't tell him this, as we may come up with better ideas.
If you have other ideas, let me know. I'd like Flat T to have a rich adventure before he returns home.
Here is a website I found, of Flat Children having adventures.
This isn't so different from GoPets, where my red dog Hamlet runs off to Taiwan and Malaysia every night, returning with green tea buns and messages in exotic languages. Flat T is slower, what with mail travel and all, and somehow more intimate.
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Where does he live? Would Flat T**** treks to the Space Needle or a ferry be soemthing novel for him? Ivar's, Vita's, Westlake or the Convention Center? Can he get flat photos of himself at various places as souvenirs?
The trip to Microsoft will bring him joy. Slip flat T into an idea for new games brainstorming session (if/when such things are done) and he will be immensely grateful. Show him interesting and cool things.
T will be extremely happy!
-niece
Well, you could post Flat T to Amsterdam but your nephew wouldn't get him back by the end of the month! I could take him on a boat ride, let him trail is toes in the Amstel River, introduce him to the smell of weed and give him an eye-opening tour of the old city that we wouldn't be able to record on camera.
Hmm, mabye Flat T had better stay on your side of the Big Pond.
JJ -- Amsterdam is a great idea. I just called T's mom to see if it would be okay if he got the Seattle pix back by the end of the month, but Flat T himself went winging it over to Amsterdam. She was pretty excited. She's going to ask T, then let me know.
Scott -- T lives outside Anchorage, Alaska. Anything non-Alaskan is novel. Yeah, flat photos is the idea -- I take him around, prop him up, and snap the pic. Space Needle and ferry are a good idea. Or, duh -- the Intiman.
Then I could take him to visit a Montmartre-like shack in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where we would play him string quartets and sing Strauss lieder to him, then discuss literature all night and get him drunk on cheap red wine...
-then he'd come on the bike-ride through the inflated snow-night over the carcass-city, and on hung-over Saturday morning peace-marches among Arabic mumbling and gossiping, Maa es-salaama...
After which I would post him back in an envelope as blue as a genius' eyes.
How are you Rachel, just found your blog!! - Anna
JJ & Anna -- Great news! T says yes, please send Flat T to Europe. Email your postal addresses to me at: realrachel@aol.com. JJ, I've got your email. Anna, send me yours. I'll work out the details with you offline.
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