look, cookies are part of life.

[alamoa]

people really need to relax about food. it's just food. eating is just eating. it's not a 'war' on weight gain, and obesity is not an epidemic, and the holiday season is not a 'minefield' of calories. you know what is war? war. fatness is not a widespread outbreak of infectious disease. and minefields don't typically just make your jeans

Comments

[sunhawk]

Oh wow, that article is just a piss-off! I'm with you all the way!

I'm reminded of how Cookie Monster isn't allowed to like cookies anymore, no he has to like healthy things because god forbid we have a single fictional monster who likes something unhealthy, fuck no he's a diet role model!

[alamoa]

right, the whole *point* of cookie monster is that he's ridiculous, he does ridiculous things like only eat cookies. kids wouldn't like cookie monster if they didn't find him funny, and the fact that kids find cookie monster funny proves that they realise his behaviour is absurd. nobody needs to tell them that.

this is also symptomatic of the trend in children's entertainment now where absolutely everything has to be curriculum-justified and have an obvious, school-type educational message. a lot of thing sesame street featured when i was little were just weird little soothing songs combined with animated shapes or images of nature. that kind of stuff is educational in a way you can't explain; it doesn't have to intoduce a new concept, or explain rules, or teach a fucking 'lesson about friendship' that makes kids think any time they don't get their way in a social situation they're being 'bullied'. argh.

[sunhawk]

YES EXACTLY HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE UNREALISTIC, HE DOESN'T EVEN REALLY EAT THE COOKIES HE JUST MASHES THEM INTO CRUMBS WITH HIS MOUTH

Old school Sesame Street was and still is some of my favourite kid programming, it was intesting and low pressure and yet strangely educations (as you say).

[kira_lynn]

you are such a hero of mine
i love these posts from you

also, holy hell i got great mail from you today!!!!

[alamoa]

yay! i hope there weren't customs charges on it either.

[kira_lynn]

there were not!