it's a beautiful thing when your kids finally get the whole charlie brown holiday special thing. rylee was cracking up when snoopy takes on the lawn chair & preparing the thanksgiving feast of popcorn and toast. then of course it is immediately followed by some cheesy, watered-down winnie the pooh disney crap. i'd give thanks if someone stuck a hot poker in my eye so i didn't have to suffer through it. sometime i'll explain my apocalyptic theory behind today's children's programming and the fall of western civilization as we know it. while watching the former, there was yet another commercial for yet another elmo toy of the xmas season... elmo is my point in a nutshell. jason and i were having an in depth discussion yesterday about the sudden passing of grover on the sesame street scene, and the coincidental emergence of elmo. i suspect foul play... that high pitched voice, the evil red color- he's too cute not to be the devil. he's wooed our children, and he must be stopped. down with elmo, and disney for that matter... i suspect the fbi will be pounding on my door any minute. say you don't like disney in this country, and people look at you in horror, like they're about to report your communist activities to mccarthy himself. enough of my banter. i'm opinionated, yes, but i'm only human. i have the right to make mistakes and laugh at myself. grover taught me that. i miss you grover wherever you are... the fly in the soup, the black market sale of a letter "m" from a pusher on the street, and let's not forget the irrepressible super grover. the world hasn't been the same without him...