My Favorite Duck

One of the business units I'm affiliated with at work is Walt Disney* Television Animation. It's a tenuous connection at best, but they recently celebrated their 20th anniversary by giving current employees a piece of original artwork from their files.

It was apparently a random draw as to what showed up in the large padded envelope. Some folks' artwork featured well-known movie characters like Simba and Ariel, but I ended up with a fairly obscure minor star from the Disney galaxy. That said, I was thrilled when I opened the envelope. How could they know that I love Ludwig von Drake?

See, when I was a kid we had a Ludwig von Drake record that we played the hell out of, sometimes listening to it back-to-back-to-back. I still remember most of the songs. ("Red-yellow-green-red-blue-blue-blue-red-purple-green-yellow-orange-red") It drove my mom absolutely nuts. To this day if you say "Ludwig von Drake" in her presence I swear she starts to twitch.

* yeah, okay, the cat's out of the bag. I know that I haven't mentioned it in this space, but if you hadn't already figured it out, I work for The Walt Disney Company.