Rafi Kam was right when he said that the Internets Celebrities owe a debt of respect to Sesame Street (Saturday Night Live as well, but that’s another drop for another day). Without the production of the Children’s Television Workshop this world would be too mean and scary for children. The monsters on Sesame Street were our friends and they looked out for us. They held our hands and they sung to us.
You can’t imagine the transformative power of this programming even today when kids can navigate gaming consoles well before they can speak in complete sentences. Everyone is failing the children from the parents, caregivers, and up to the educators but never Sesame Street. This is still the single place that children can be adults without the burden of paying bills. Children are spoken to with eye contact and love in the center of the message. Thank you Sesame Street, without you this world would be even more fucked the fuck up.
This weekend, my favorite library in the Brooklyn, the central branch at Grand Army Plaza is hosting a 40th anniversary celebration for Children Television Workshop’s Sesame Street. They have so many activities and events scheduled I almost want to rent myself a child. If you are lucky enough to have someone in your life that you would like to introduce to the perfect world of Sesame Street please don’t hesitate to find yourself at the Brooklyn Central Library this Saturday.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard would definitely be there.
But then again, Wu-Tang is for the children.
Sidenote: I’ve been doing a lot of work on microfilm the last six months or so and there has to be a word for the SMELL of a more-than-crowded 1st floor microfilm, computer, cd/dvd/vhs, reference desk at BPL. Pu~ ain’t it, I don’t think but mane… things can get ripe.
REQUEST TO BPL: please please PLEASE fix more of the microfilm readers, when the genealogy crowd goes (ll) things get heated because only two of the damn things ever work right at one time.
Thanks in advance,
Willis Still Sunsweet
Real talk, I’m a PBS/CTW baby. Mr. Rogers, Electric Company (which is revamped for the 00’s & maaaaad hip hop), 321 Contact, Sesame Street & all things in between. I grew up around a bunch of other latch-keys who’s parents didn’t expose them to that….guess what they’re doing these days.
My son’s continuing the legacy, by choice. He’ll watch PBS before fuxing with The Simpsons.
I did a drop in Feb dedicated to how Mr. Rogers helped me deal with life as a young kid [||].
Good drop….
Grand$ since you are a friend to the page feel free to post a link to that drop.
Each one teach one family
PBS was everything.
I’m pretty sure Bernadette Yao (Zoom) was my first crush. I swear I wrote her letters. She never read them though. I got over it. I bugged out at going thru the Elec Co.’s boxed set w/ my niece…many a star came thru there. Morgan Freeman’s always been the man. T-Grands, Mr. Rogers gave me the creeps…but I followed that wacky little train anyway.
Dallas, the Sesame Street theme on the outgoing message is another Corona (Shack) classic.
I might smilz out and do this Saturday. But Elmo will be there. And Elmo and I are NOT peops. What, Grover was busy?
Shouts to Quick (aka Big Bird) and the rest of dem Sesame St. dudes…had to got there: Hail Meg!
Shiiit….Oscar the grouch is my role model……
and yeah MR Rogers is made creepy…he’s on par with catholic preists!!!
I need to peep some PBS…Saturday morning cartoons are the sux these days.
U can rent one’a mines.
DP!
Of course, sir…
http://tonygrands.blogspot.com/2009/01/rip-mr-rogers.html
man they moved Sesame Street to the burbs last time i checked it out with my little nephew.