J’s teddy bear

[OriginalPosterLost]

Was it just my imagination or was J touring with a teddy bear back in 02?

[rage:man]

? i’d love to hear more about this.

[sonicdeathmonkey]

Very possible. I know that J has an extensive plush animal collection. He used to have them all over his bed when he was a kid and he has them featured in the Little Fury Thing video. Also his cow tshirt is based off of one of his toys I beleive. Kinda weird for a full grown heterosexual man to own young children’s toys.

[fata morgana]

"sonicdeathmonkey " wrote:

Very possible. I know that J has an extensive plush animal collection. He used to have them all over his bed when he was a kid and he has them featured in the Little Fury Thing video. Also his cow tshirt is based off of one of his toys I beleive. Kinda weird for a full grown heterosexual man to own young children’s toys.

I don’t know… I’ve taken my teddy bear out of the closet and he/she is now sitting at my kitchen table drinking tea

[AGAP]

"fata morgana " wrote:

don’t know… I’ve taken my teddy bear out of the closet and he/she is now sitting at my kitchen table drinking tea

[rambleon]

i don’t know about a teddy bear, but mike watt mentioned him having an amma doll back in 2001 … does that help?

[ammaringnyc]

He used to have a bunch on stage sometimes, I have one of them somewhere in storage that got thrown in the crowd. And I have seen people give him stuffed cows.

[my name is lisa]

That’s weird… my mom gave me a little monkey when I was in the hospital and he has a hole in his leg that leaks little white pellets so I can’t play with him too much.

[my name is lisa]

are you saying you never play with your monkey?

[sonicdeathmonkey]

J sure does love his stuffed animals. It confounds me to the point of insanity, but hey, a grown man can do whatever he pleases as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. It just seems strange for a 42 year old man to have a lot of stuffed little kids toys.

[sonicdeathmonkey]

Yes it does.

[squeapler]

"sonicdeathmonkey " wrote:

J sure does love his stuffed animals. It confounds me to insanity, but hey, a grown man can do whatever he pleases as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. It just seems strange for a 42 year old man to have a lot of stuffed little kids toys.

i know a lot of people over 40 who love plush toys and/or dolls. many of them are artists and get really inspired by looking at them. a lot of them also make the toys and dolls. i’m also not real sure what being a hetero man has to do with it, i know hetero men who are married with kids and sit in studios making or working with toys and puppets all day, and who like teddy bears just fine.

speaking as somebody who’s over 40, once you get to be that age you stop giving two cow flops what anybody else thinks of what you do. you spend your whole 20s worrying about that stuff…but once you get older you’re just like "aw f*** it i’m gonna be who i am and if that means i carry a teddy bear around then i’m gonna do it." i mean, maybe you use some discretion and don’t take it to the office, but around your house or shows or anyplace that’s not corporate mind suck is fine. stuff like that is what i love about j.

[sonicdeathmonkey]

Nah, but seriously, it’s cool. You just don’t see it very often. I actually think it’s rather endearing. J is able to hold onto something that makes him young at heart, he can keep something from childhood to keep him grounded. I wish I had kept some of my stuffed animals, especially my favorite stuffed Bunny which I just could not go to sleep without. I wonder if I still have it……..

[kathleen]

don’t know what’s come over me.more posts today than in the past couple of years. i gave j a stuffed gorilla a few years back. think it was at north six in brooklyn.
a friend of mine gave him a stuffed bird or something more recently at a gig in the city. wasn’t there.
silly girls.

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