PHH: Sunny Days

PHH decree: there shall be no discussion about any recently released books.  Books are boring.  If you want your pop-culture fix go see that movie about the 2012 election that crashes into our planet, Earth, because damn, seeing famous stuff blow'd up has never been done before ever in the movies.  I think that Morgan Freeman plays a Mayan president and narrator, and Liv Tyler and Jeff Goldblum are there too.  Either that or stay at home and watch Oprah today, because it's all about lady pr0n.  Oprah's special guest is Jenna Jameson, who is the most intelligent guest of Oprah this week.  I wonder what wonderful gifts Oprah will give her audience!

Just don't turn on the news, because all I freaking heard about last week was Sesame Street turning 40.  Internet advertising company Googol runs a week-long logo thingy, and bam! Every single news program had to do some feature on Snuffleupagus and how Cookie Monster once held a "tobacco" pipe, so it became adult programming.  I know you're looking for light "fluff pieces" and to have a li'l fun as producers of your NPR show, but you should probably not all do the exact same thing after opening your spiderweb browsers.  Yeah, yeah...40 is a number that ends in zero, but maybe we should wait until 50, hmm?  This is the biggest fuss I've seen for a 40th birthday since Jack Benny.  (Yes!  Old radio references!  Never say your PHH writers are ageists!  Don't mock it, or I will break out a quality Fibber McGee & Molly joke!)  

That said, to be perfectly hypocritical,  HOW GREAT IS SESAME STREET??!  With Bob, Maria, Luis, Gordon, and all those weird fur-covered people teaching us how to be polite and tolerant to others, literate, environmentally responsible, and insulting to Fox News, it's obvious that many PHH'ers probably got our first Progressive inklings straight outta the Children's Television Workshop, which probably had an awesome union.  Why, I even learned my first Spanish words from The Street.  This is why Lou Dobbs quit his job.

Come keep the Sesame Spirit alive!  Can you tell me how to get...how to get to Progressive Happy Hour?   Red Rock Television Workshop, on Capitol Ave. in Hartford tonight beginning at 9:30 pm.  Brought to you by the letter P, the letter H, and the number 1.   Come from near or far, and call your friends, Donny the friendly Grouch and his crew will be serving up some pitchers and fries...AND WE WILL COUNT THEM.  ah-ah-ah-ah ahhhh.

--Mr. Hooper