It is the birthday of Sid "Cookie" Monster, who debuted in the premiere episode of Sesame Street on November 10, 1969, having already appeared as The Wheel Stealer in an unaired General Foods advertising spot and in an IBM training film titled "Coffee Break Machine. — Read the rest

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Greetings, all. I'll be your psychopomp this evening, the keeper of the crypt, the mistress of the dank, the lightning rod of this sterling dungeon, if you will. I ask you now to picture something horrid, something ghastly, but all too real…

Imagine: sometime in the future, October in the city of New Orleans. — Read the rest

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