I am 38 years old.

So why do I still have zits?

Poop jokes, part deux

So a couple days ago to amuse myself while also entertaining my kids I started singing, "Give me lots of poop to eat, woah-o-o! Lots and lots of poop to eat, woah-o-o," to the tune of the Sesame Street song, "Give Me Something Good to Eat" (a song I hated when I was a kid but that still gets stuck in my head to this day). It was met with lots of laughs and giggles and requests to sing it again.

Today, Éiden and I were shopping at Target and Éiden, while looking at clocks on a shelf, started singing the song at the top of his lungs.

"Oh, Éiden," I said. "That rally is a gross song, isn't it?"

Éiden stopped singing and looked up at me, a huge poop-eating grin on his face.

"No," he said. "That's a GREAT song!"

And then he went back to singing it.

Courageous Nostalgia Minute

the_slow_train  just posted a Stevie Washington (angry youth) video over on his journal which always reminded me of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.  When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I lived on top of a hill which gave us better TV reception than most, and on good days I could get Channel 11 out of New York.  Channel 11 had all the good kids' shows -- the Adam West Batman, the George Reeves Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Deputy Dog, the Banana Splits, Tom and Jerry and Popeye (among others -- on Saturday nights it also showed a creature feature that seemed to invariably be a Hammer Film film Peter Cushing). 

Between shows, if there was time, they used to show episodes of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse and I used to feel a rush of excitement each time as the cool hepcat bass line would flow out from the television speaker into my living room and I'd watch another installment of the two heroes in their quest to the Frog or Harry Ape or any one of countless other villains.  Part of why I loved it was that it seemed so like Batman and Robin (and, being the über-geek even at the age of seven, anything that remotely resembled one of the DC heroes was the best thing I'd ever seen).  It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned Bob Kane (creator of Batman) was also behind Courageous Cat.

You never knew when Channel 11 would show another episode so I'd sit glued to the TV all afternoon, as soon as I got home from school, enjoying all the shows that were normally on, but also hoping that maybe this was the day I'd see another adventure of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.  Whenever it came on, I felt this wonderful sense of delight , the same sense of delight I feel years later when I've finally found the collectible toy I've been looking for or the LP that I just had to have but couldn't find anywhere.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show or for those who are but haven't seen it in awhile, I present to you . . . Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse!

From the mouth of Sarah Palin:

“Are you ready to break the highest glass ceiling in America?” she asked. “It’s about time we shattered that glass ceiling for once and for all,” she added, as the crowd chanted her name.

So the highest glass ceiling for women is becoming second fiddle to the president? Really?