This is a short followup to my Sesame Street post.

In June of '08 Stephen Colbert confronted Cookie Monster and took him to task for abandoning his pro-cookie agenda. He's not the Fruit Monster, so where's his cookie lapel pin?

Video here and followup involving the missing Peabody here.

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The "Sesame Street" I watched as a child is a different one from today's. As this article points out, it's been cleaned up in more ways than one. Sesame Street today isn't completely suburbanized. It still looks like it's in the middle of a city, but it's not quite the same ( Read more... )

As I simmered the beef bones I'd discovered at a local market -- a place I'd passed by multiple time but only recently ventured into and discovered, to my delight, all manner of ethnic foods and unusual cuts of meat -- I was discussing with a friend the foods we eat that others may consider unusual. Chicken feet, for example. While I don't fancy ( Read more... )

My mom liked silly oldies, so I'm familiar with a few circa the 1950's. She used to sing this one a lot -- not featuring World of Warcraft of course -- although I never knew who the singer was until recently.

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She was also fond of "Polka Dot Bikini".

Halloween means a sudden increase in the number of horror films on television, most of them pretty bad. I mean Sci Fi channel exclusive bad, although even the more acclaimed hits like The Ring* -- original and remake -- are pretty ridiculous when you pause to consider the plot. But to those who think only America likes to do remakes of foreign ( Read more... )

Today I was reminded of something my family used to do ( Read more... )

succubuschan was a fan of Eddie Izzard, and I only wish I'd watched more of his comedy back then, so we could have giggled together just a little bit more.

"I've wiped the file? I've wiped all the files? I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!" YouTube

Got a toaster there, but it’s got a turny dial thing on the side. And it lies to us. It does ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember the old school text adventure games, the ones where you got really frustrated by the limited vocabulary of the program and resorted to simple commands like "stab doctor" or "kill kitten" only to have said kitten kill you instead? I believe I mentioned before the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy version and a java adaptation ( Read more... )

Halloween candy and decorations started to appear in stores in early September, and Thanksgiving paraphernalia is already popping up. Soon i expect to see Christmas doo-dads. So, speaking of the holidays, perhaps you've heard of a 1978 television special called The Star Wars Holiday Special? No? I would be surprised if you had, and even more ( Read more... )

These old arcade games have a place in my heart. This was in the day of the Atari and later the NES64, but we couldn't afford either. Both the consoles and the games were too much, and used game stores weren't as common as they are today, so the only games we played were on the big old arcade machines ( Read more... )