3 posts tagged “childhood”
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.
I liked the Swedish Chef for his fearless attitude in the kitchen. He should be on Iron Chef. I think he'd flay a certain Bobby any day. But for pure pathos, one must look beyond the narrow confines of the "Muppet" label and examine the tragic life of Grover, the muppet who never was.
"Every night after wrapping on 'Street' Ernie and I would hit the local bar for Shirley Temples and ice cream. What Ernie did not realize was that my Shirley Temples were spiked with whiskey and I was chasing that ice cream with barbiturates. And when he went home, I stayed out- sometimes all night."
"Losing the Muppet Show gig was like some kind of affirmation for me of all of my worst insecurities at once. It was as if the whole world was telling me 'You are not good enough, Grover. You are only a children's show character, Grover. Go back to Queens and die a slow death, Grover."
What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?
That time in elementary school we went to see an opera - La Boheme - was pretty good, but the most memorable was probably the class trip on a fishing boat with the flirty fisherman. I wore my hair in two long braids in fifth grade and he kept pulling on them every time I walked by with the rest of our group. He winked at me a lot too.
Ms. Pac Man. Tetris. Not very original, I know. But true. And, yes, I did play Tetris in an arcade, as well as in front of the family room tv late at night after everyone had gone to bed.
The Wikipedia entry for Tetris is interesting. I like the section called "Is it possible to play forever?"
and the following material linked at the end:
1) "Tetris Dreams" (Scientific American article)
2) One of the biggest Tetris games (Dutch dudes at Delft U. did the biggest one.)
