Guys. Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and you can go here and vote for your favorite video from the 1980s. Obviously, there’s only one way to vote, and that is for the video above. Other highlights that are great (but should not be voted for cause they’re not as great as Smokey) are:
The girls doing the handclapping chants that I did ALL THE TIME when I was four.
Ernie’s I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon ballad—it’s almost too adorable.
Kermit and the Three Pigs in which one of the pigs keeps referring to Kermit as Walter Cronkite.
And, no, you guys, I am not sitting at my computer overcome with Sesame Street nostalgia and near tears, but thanks for your concern … Ok, ok, I totally am sitting by my computer overcome with Sesame Street nostalgia and near tears, but this stuff is so good. I will make no apologies for my Sesame Street nostalgia and near-tears-ness and neither should you. Enjoy!
Oh this so unfair it seemed so normal at the store how do we even know when the apples are good or bad COME ON, APPLE don’t make me look like a fool I BELIEVED IN YOU, APPLE, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GO PLACES TOGETHER, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEBODY, SOMETHING, IT, I DUNNO, YOU SEEMED FUNNY AND SELF-AWARE IN A WAY FEW PEOPLE ARE THESE DAYS OKAY I MEAN EVERYBODY IS THESE DAYS THAT’S PRETTY MUCH A THING NOW ISN’T IT, “THIS IS ME, HERE IS MY BULLSHIT, ENJOY,” IS THAT NOT HOW EVERYONE OPERATES LATELY- IDEALIZING NEUROTICISM TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT WE FALL IN LOVE WITH OUR VERY INABILITY TO LET EACH OTHER IN, BECOMING COMPASSIONATE TO A FAULT, FAMILIARIZING TO A FAULT, WRITING LATE-NIGHT MISSIVES TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR BUT EVERYONE IN GENERAL, WINDING THROUGH CLEVER TURNS OF PHRASE TO OBFUSCATE THE VERY THING THAT WILL SAVE US, THE VERY THING WE REFUSE TO SEE, REFUSE TO WRITE ABOUT, TO SAY TO EACH OTHER, TO BLOG: THAT WE WERE WRONG, THAT WE WERE BAD FOR EACH OTHER, THAT WE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN UP A REALLY LONG TIME AGO.
More from the Daytrotter Sessions … I couldn’t choose a favorite, so please listen to this one, too, if you’re so inclined. Don’t worry, I won’t post the other two, but y’all know where to download them, right? Right.
You guys: Carly Simon on Daytrotter, with Ben Taylor (that’s right—Ben Taylor, as in her son with James). I’m sorry if you did not grow up in my household (and I realize that many of you did not), and if this is therefore a not big deal, but I am super psyched and I’m sure my mom is, too. Free tracks here.
There are many things I love about this photo of Marc Jacobs styled by François Nars, but none as much as the tattooed portrait of Jacobs as a “Simpsons” character.
I saw this photo when she blogged it and from that point forward have hardly been able to stop thinking about it. He is without flaw.
Several years ago, when I was much younger and way more foolish, I stole a glowing lavender pumpkin from Max Fish and took it to Katz’s Deli for soup and then home to my apartment. It is the only thing that I have ever stolen and, of course, being the amateur thief that I was (am), I told my mom about my new acquisition, and she was motherly and shocked and disappointed and now at Halloween sends me that lavender pumpkin in the mail and I call to thank her and she gives me a lecture about stealing and we laugh and I just got the pumpkin in the mail today and here it is. But, guys, don’t steal—the yamas and commandments and everything else say not to—and definitely don’t steal and then tell your mom cause she’ll never let it go.
Side note: My mom is the best and therefore send these rocking goblets which, as you can see, totally blend right in with my decor. When I thanked her for them, she noted that Chris and Will’s goblets have nothing on mine. I think that she is right, especially since they are bigger and can thusly accommodate more beverage. Game on, boys.
I’d like to think that when Garrett posted this he thought, ‘What will bring Lindsay back to the blogosphere? Ah, yes, a Lady Gaga cover.’ Good move, my dear, good move.