My first trip to Build-A-Bear four years ago:
today i went to build a bear workshop for the first time and made myself a lion. i stuffed her with eleven brave hearts cause eleven is my lucky number and i wanted to make sure she’d survive through all the mending every time she got her heart broken. i wanted to make sure she still had enough hearts to love the folks who deserved it, even while a few of her hearts could be recuperating. i dressed her up in a blue cheerleader outfit cause blue’s my favorite color and i needed a tangible cheerleader i could take around everywhere i went. and i gave her some shell toes to keep it old school.
This dude, who isn’t even from LA but knows it better than I do, took me to see this statue in Culver City this afternoon. It stands behind the hotel next to Culver Studios, where the munchkins apparently stayed during the filming of The Wizard of Oz. It has instantly become my favorite statue in the history of the universe.
