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Cookie Monster on NPR

PuppetVision Blog pointed out that Cookie Monster was on NPR yesterday. There’s a long tradition of puppet characters appearing on radio, but we are lucky that the wise folk at NPR also made a short video of Cookie answering the famous Proust Questionnaire. You can listen to the whole interview at the same link. “C”

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Repetative Dialogue

((Spotted at Genevieve Valentine’s)) You know you’ve read scenes exactly like this which were written in earnest. Cut the repetition and don’t say the obvious. Unless you are Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, in which case you are fintastically fintastic.

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Twelve Days of Christmas

I sometimes tell people that I had a Norman Rockwell upbringing. Our Christmas tradition explains it. For over fifty years, my extended family gathers at Woodthrush Woods, the house that my dad’s parents built, for Christmas dinner. The number of guests ranges from 20-35 people, and we hoot and carry on. First Robby (my namesake

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Chattanooga Spaceship

In Chattanooga, when we go to visit my cousins on Signal Mountain, we always pass this spaceship. Seriously. Well, okay, it’s a house shaped like a space ship, but still. There’s an article online about it, which includes this handy video showing the inside of the Spaceship House. I’d always wondered about it. Clearly, I’m

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