I was looking for video of the Romney meet at the Allen County HQ when Fort Wayne Observed has noticed the sign we’ve put up! Great work Melissa and the Meet-Up crew!
I was looking for video of the Romney meet at the Allen County HQ when Fort Wayne Observed has noticed the sign we’ve put up! Great work Melissa and the Meet-Up crew!
We all heard that the old school episodes of Sesame Street is deemed unsuitable for today’s preschoolers. This is why I have utter contempt of what passes for education.
It was not the gentrified suburban life that SS glorified with Elmo at the center. It was the gritty, flashy city with clips of rural agriculture and children of all colors and shapes and sizes. It was funny and folksy and silly and it faces issues as we kids must face. Mr Hooper’s legacy was that we can talk about death without couching in terms like “gone to sleep” or “gone forever”. Miles’ adoption is a wonderful way to say that families happen in many ways. Disabled people found a spot in the Street along with the Twitterbugs, the Groucheteers, and talking animals. We all know that normal people do not live in garbage cans like Oscar. I always wonder what his can looked like inside. Oscar’s home has an elephant, and vast space like Dr Who’s TARDIS. In real life, it’s just 35 gallons of trash and maggots. Chaotic imagination reigned plenty in the old school episodes. Yet, we knew that when the day is over, we can go back to our families with directives to clean up our room and to play nice.
My sibs would complain that I was too old for Sesame Street. I would watch the episodes right up to the time I left to Concordia-Irvine. By that time, Elmo took away the last 15 minutes of air time and it was no longer the Sesame Street I remembered. I want my nieces and nephews to enjoy the old school episodes. They are not fragile snowflakes and they will realize that not everything will be sanitized and dumbed down for their protection.