![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Twenty years ago, I woke up, turned on the radio, and heard “Berliners continue to celebrate in their no-longer-divided city.” That was a pleasant surprise, in an odd way a fine and memorable birthday present.
Google has gone to some trouble to make sure I know that [Bad username or unknown identity: ”bcholmes”] and I also share our birthday with Sesame Street. I’m just old enough that I didn’t learn much from Sesame Street: but I have a younger brother, and I did watch, and I’m still fond of Grover and Kermit, and remember Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus and the Cookie Monster and Miss Piggy and Oscar. Quite a bit later, I watched The Muppet Show. I also have fond memories of The Electric Company, and still give 02134 when a store asks my zip code for demographic purposes.
There are gorgeous purple flowers, mostly roses, on my desk here. *grin*
Google has gone to some trouble to make sure I know that [Bad username or unknown identity: ”bcholmes”] and I also share our birthday with Sesame Street. I’m just old enough that I didn’t learn much from Sesame Street: but I have a younger brother, and I did watch, and I’m still fond of Grover and Kermit, and remember Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus and the Cookie Monster and Miss Piggy and Oscar. Quite a bit later, I watched The Muppet Show. I also have fond memories of The Electric Company, and still give 02134 when a store asks my zip code for demographic purposes.
There are gorgeous purple flowers, mostly roses, on my desk here. *grin*
Tags:
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
P.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
I was just under three when Sesame Street began, so I was really the first generation to grow up on it, I think. Though I imprinted on an Oscar who was orange, not green, and a Snuffalopagus who was invisible. (As I heard it, someone realized that having no one believe Big Bird about Snuffy could send the wrong message to little kids who needed to be believed about things that were happening to them, like abuse.)
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
It doesn't feel like 20 years ago to me -- it feels like five minutes or 100 years, depending on what else is going on.
From:
no subject