I heard a disquieting rumor a couple of months ago. For some reason it didn't come back to mind until today. First, some background: Since the beginning of Sesame Street, the Jim Henson Company has owned the rights to all Muppets that appear on the show. This has
I just received one of the nicest compliments I've had lately. One of the departing employees, whom I may not see again in an office setting, told me: "You know, out of all the people in this department, if I had to pick the one that was
They say that into every sunny day must come a few clouds. Last Tuesday, a week ago today, a few huge thunderheads descended on One Lincoln Plaza. I escaped sudden death in the storm in a couple of senses, but I still caught a fatal dose of pneumonia. █████ and I
I mentioned a couple of celebrity sightings a few posts ago. We used to have a whiteboard here at the office that listed the nearby celebrity sightings for everyone in our group. We also had an elaborate set of rules about what counted as a celebrity sighting. Public appearances didn&
By the way, for all you closet Sesame Street fans out there, I thought I'd point out that we have at long last made your favorite old songs from the show available on our Web site. Just try Sesame Street Radio if you really want to annoy everyone
Halloween didn't seem quite like Halloween yesterday—not to me, anyway. First of all, █████ and I got the costume thing out of our systems on Saturday. We went to a terrific party at our friends Andrew and Stephanie's house in Astoria. █████ dressed in an Indian sari—
Boy, if anyone's reading this on someone else's "friends" page, it's going to look like I'm hogging all the space! I was just barely two years old when Sesame Street debuted in 1969. My mother and I watched the very
I'm not sure why I'm thinking about this today. Maybe because she was the first friend I ever took with me to Sesame Street. (You've heard about the latest trip if you read Eleanor's journal, though I may eventually have more to
I'd been smelling the smoke for a while and wondered vaguely what was burning. So had everyone else. We even talked about it, but no one knew what it was. This was yesterday afternoon at the office. I'd been trying to catch up on some overdue
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