If you’re reading this post, chances are, you’ve just visited my website for the first time.  And chances are (well, okay, to be certain)–I’d love to hear from you.

Crack a smile!  Stay a while!  Leave a comment.  Enjoy the ramblings up to this point, and try to get “What’s the Name of that Song?” out of your head. (Scroll down.  When you see Sesame Street, you’re one click away.)

I hope you’ll come back!  There may be contest announcements, book recommendations, writing ruminations, and perhaps even some interviews with writers.  I will also try to make good on the motto I created, “Occasional love songs to pickles or cake.”

If you would like to nominate a cake or pickle worthy of a love song, you can do so in the comments.  Or you can just say Hi.

Hi!  Thanks for stopping by!

The article was about how the content of Sesame Street has always been driven by research, but I clicked on the “What’s the Name of that Song?” video and fell so in love that I stopped reading article mid-stream to write this post. 

The adults on Sesame were so cute!  I had never realized it before.  David and Bob actually kind of wish they were doing musical theatre, but Gordan and Susan really seem happy there on Sesame Street.  And while people make a lot out of the fact that the Sesame cast is multi-racial (as well as, of course, multi-species), I think it’s also appealing that some of the adults are single, some are married, and they all hang out together.  (When I was a Sesame viewer, adults came in two kinds: married parents and single teachers.  Even if they were ‘Mrs,’ everybody knew they slept in the classroom.)

Another random Sesame factoid: since I seem to have a compulsion for admitting random ignorance (for example, the whole ‘wait–bees have feet?’ business, which appears on my website), I didn’t realize until a recent article about tv vampires that Count von Count was, yes, a vampire.  What?  He had a Transylvanian accent and pointy fangs, and yeah, maybe he was groovin’ on his cape, but what was Herry Monster?  Or Bert or Ernie, for that matter?  Was there a species of yellow oval-shaped creatures somewhere, and I just didn’t know about it?  I didn’t think so.  Similarly, I thought Count von Count was just…a Count. 

I guess it just goes to show that at young ages, kids will accept all sorts of images of normalcy.  Maybe that’s actually the point of the article about research in Sesame Street.  Guess I’ll go read it now and find out. 

Oh yeah.  And what’s the name of that song?

Hey, kids!  So…I have this new blog!  Yahoo!

It’s in WordPress.  Everybody say it with me: worrrd presss.  I have always secretly admired those folks with WordPress blogs.  They seemed to know something I didn’t.  And, in fact, they did: how to use a WordPress blog.  So far, it doesn’t seem that hard.  I wonder what held me back. 

Yeah.  This first post isn’t brilliant so far, but there will be brilliance–brilliance, I tell you–in the future.  Really I’m just trying to generate some posts so that it doesn’t have a sad little empty little nothingness of a nothing when you come here.  But even as I wrote this, I came across a thought–a fabulous thought–that could be the subject of the next real entry.  That will blow you, away, I guarantee.

Up, up and away!