Soppho

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary this month, B sent me along this little number, with a note:
“Mediocre Sesame Street song featuring the Count, but it really shines at the 55-second mark, with the arrival of dancing bats.”
(I suggest you heed his advice and skip on in to :55)

I haven’t seen Sesame Street in [...]

I had a whole herd of My Little Ponies when I was little, including the special, fuzzy ponies, baby ponies, and sea ponies, and—in case you weren’t quite jealous enough—the My Little Pony barn. I’m not sure what my sisters and I actually did when we played with them, but beauty pageants mercifully never factored [...]

Every once in a while a song comes along that you absolutely adore beyond all reason. It’s not the world’s most perfectly arranged song; the lyrics aren’t particularly relevant to anything you’re experiencing in your life. But for some reason, you find yourself listening to it again and again, even months after the first time [...]

I took an amazing “Literature Goes to Hell” course in college, and the very first thing we read was The Book of Job. I’m all sorts of sad that this video didn’t exist back then. But back then I also lived in blissful ignorance of the existence of AA leggings, so maybe instead I should [...]

My parents divorced when I was four, and since I’m accustomed to seeing them as two separate entities rather than a pair, I also tend to think of myself as pieces of the two of them—haphazardly stapled together. Maybe sewn together, with awkward stitches that leave visible seams. In fact, I don’t think their genes [...]