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Peter Llewellyn Davies
The man above was the inspiration for the character Peter Pan, written by JM Barrie.
JM Barrie was a writer, and a colorful character, which you can learn all about here. According to sources, J. M. Barrie latched on to the Davies boys, and his relationship was borderline creepy. He became obsessed with them, Peter in particular. The Davies family became Barrie's surrogate family. The film Finding Neverland is based on this story.
Little back story: Barrie lost a brother in a skating accident. To help his mother cope, he used to mimic his dead brother's voice and dress in his clothes. EEk.
On April 1960, little Peter Pan had had enough. "While the balance of his mind was disturbed," Peter stumbled from his home at the Royal Court Hotel in Sloane Square (now called the Sloane Square Hotel), ambled past the future birthplace of The Rocky Horror Show (The Royal Court Theater), bought a ticket for the Underground at the Sloane Square tube station.
This little video is one I took in London a few weeks back, when I met my very bestest British Death Hag friends for a tiny tour. I keep hoping more pictures from that day will surface, so if any of you are reading this, please send them. Especially the photo with me as a pregnant Sharon Tate. (It sounds worse than it was.)
Anyway, this is the path that Davies would have walked. It was probably not under construction at the time. Wait. It probably was. London ALWAYS is.
He waited on the platform for just the right moment, and leapt. This is what a train looks like, leaving Sloane Square tube, without Peter Pan under its wheels.
Peter Pan was rushed to St. George's Hospital in Westminster where he died on 30 April, 1960. He was 63 years old.
Pan is apparently buried in the Hampstead Cemetery in North London
When JM Barrie died, he left the royalties to Peter Pan to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. There is a statue of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell located on the Hospital grounds. I'll bet it makes Disney nuts, that they don't own it outright. Nuts.
There is another statue
of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, where Barrie used to play with the
Davies boys.
Sounds like there really is a Peter
Pan curse. I am glad that Johnny
Depp's little girl is doing well.
Get a loada this one.
Peanut butter recall widens over
salmonella outbreak
Monday, March 19, 2007
The recent recall of Peter Pan and Great
Value peanut butter products is being extended. The recall was initiated
due to the products connection to an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning in
the US.
ConAgra, the manufacturer of both brands, and
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are now extending the recall to
include all jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter beginning with the
product code 2111, and peanut butter toppings purchased since October 2004.
The earlier recall included peanut butter
purchased since May 2006; the current recall includes jars purchased as far back
as October 2004 (and which were all coded 2111). Residents are instructed
to discard and not consume peanut butter from these specific jars.
Salmonella is a bacterium that causes serious
illness. Symptoms of infection can include diarrhea, fever, dehydration,
abdominal pain and vomiting.
But this is not why we are here.
Another reason we are not here, is that Disney
has (yet again) released Peter Pan on DVD recently, making every other disc or video you
alREADY purchased, irrelevant and substandard. (ooh, just realized that keeping
that Disney link/window open, it makes for great background music whilst you
read this).
Plus the fact that Peter Pan simply could not
fly, could not fly, could not fly.
Thanks Harry. x
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