CMJ New Music Monthly
In My Room
October 2003 (Issue Number 117)
Page 11
By: Tom Mallon

  

The Blue's Clues guy's alternate uses for the Thinking Chair

Who: Steve Burns
Where: His apartment in Brooklyn
Why: Steve Burns skidooed from Blue's Clues to take up residence with the Flaming Lips on his debut, Songs For Dustmites ([PIAS] America).  Why he chose to sing to dustmites instead of the "dust rhinos" he lives with is anybody's guess.
 

SMELLY PLACES OF QUIET REFLECTION

One of the most notable objects in my apartment is the original Blue's Clues Thinking Chair.  It's an enormous piece of furniture, it looks like a cartoon, and it's extremely useful in times of thought.  It is also extremely useful in times of overflowing dirty laundry.  It is equally useful as a drum, a place for thought, and a receptacle for dirty laundry ... [Blue's Clues] gave it to me for my 25th birthday.

DUST DEVILS

I have a giant blue shag rug, and there are dust rhinos, big blue tumbleweeds, all over my apartment.  Giant blue dustballs.  I have to remove them with a chair and a whip.  I have to drive them back under the Thinking Chair, from whence they came.

RAGING BULL

My family has a "Tackiest Christmas Gift" contest, and I'm the hands-down champion.  Sometimes the gifts are so bad that I have to take them with me.  The best one has been a disturbingly large bullfighting bull.  It's as big as a good size cat.  And it sits there, as a totem of virility in my bedroom, because it's extremely well-hung -- it is terrible to behold.  As a former Kid's show host, I find it necessary to keep virility totems around.  As many as possible.