I would be doing better if I had cookies. Which I do not. So I am only doing. Not doing better. Not doing best. Just doing. Yes, the store has more. I can go to the store. I can satisfy my need for cookies. I can do the best that I can. Cookies are needed.
Tag Archives: Sesame Street
Snow Squall!
I was in the kitchen, when I heard a howl of wind outside. “Well, that’s interesting!” I thought. I went to the door, opened it, looked outside… There was a frumious snow squall! It was over within five minutes and the skies cleared off. I guess this is the expected cold front coming through. There’sContinue reading “Snow Squall!”
Live from New York… it’s Cookie Monster!
Fifteen years ago, Cookie Monster made an audition tape to be a guest host on Saturday Night Live. It still hasn’t happened. Let’s make it happen, world! Cookie Monster, on Saturday Night Live. The world needs this.
12-Bar Job Search Blues
I saw a post on LinkedIn this morning that touched a nerve and sparked some thinking. “I have 35+ years experience and I can’t find a job that pays over $20 an hour.“ I don’t like LinkedIn. I’m not even sure it’s a necessary evil. The toxic positivity and “every moment is a life lesson”Continue reading “12-Bar Job Search Blues”
The Hero Sesame Street Needs
I believe I have found my Platonic ideal of a desktop wallpaper. Super Grover! How can one go wrong with Super Grover? The hero Sesame Street both needs and deserves! And whatever mishaps he gets into, whatever destruction head leaves in his wake, Commissioner Gordon will be right nearby to say, “Covered it.” I jest,Continue reading “The Hero Sesame Street Needs”
Meanwhile on Sesame Street…
We do not talk enough how Elmo brought in the Daleks to take care of his “Rocco Problem” permanently…
Scenes from the Senators’ Opening Night
The last time I was on Harrisburg’s City Island for a baseball game — the fourth and final game of the 2019 Eastern League Division Series between the Harrisburg Senators and the Bowie Baysox — no one had ever heard of COVID-19. And I wasn’t visually impaired. Tuesday night, after something like 612 days, professionalContinue reading “Scenes from the Senators’ Opening Night”
Talking Grover with a Little Girl
I sat in the Beetle and cried. It wasn’t an ugly cry or an evil cry. Emotion had bubbled to the surface and, like an unstirred pot on the stove, boiled over. “I like your Grover mask,” said a little girl to me when I was leaving the ballpark, and what followed was the perhapsContinue reading “Talking Grover with a Little Girl”
Stuck in the Middle with You
Sesame Street is coming to an envelope near you; the Postal Service has announced a series of Sesame Street stamps, featuring most of your favorite Muppets. I say “most”; Sherlock Hemlock is nowhere to be found. To promote the stamps, the Sesame Street Twitter account asked this important question yesterday: We’re re-enacting Cast Away, butContinue reading “Stuck in the Middle with You”
On the Year that Was
With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 about to begin, I decided to take a look back at 2016 and spotlight the best (or most significant) blog post of each month. Some months — July, quite notably — were more difficult that others; there were a few months, like March and August, where IContinue reading “On the Year that Was”