Let’s get drunk!

Alright! Yeah! This weekend marks an event that happens each year, that America loves. The excitement! The comradery! The food and drink! The pure unadultered joy of watching a great set of human beings practice their art! Of course I'm talking about.... Sesame Street: Live! Apparently, this year Elmo makes music. What did you think I meant? That sporting event of which I am most certainly not allowed to use the name. That really great dish? (Grab a thesaurus...) Well, I did not. I mean don't get me wrong. That's a fun event too. But COME ON! Fucking Sesame Street! Rock on with your bad pre-school self. Now the reason I know this is happening this weekend, is that I am babysitting for my cousin. That may seem odd, babysitting for my cousins during a children-themed event? What, are my cousins special? Are they taking the short bus downtown to the show? Do they want to go see Sesame Street: Live! without being hindered by little children. Just my cousins and Cookie Monster doing lines of cookie crumbs on the Cass Corridor? No! They have a newborn who would most certainly be an anchor on their evening, and they want to take their other child for his two year anniversary of squeezing through a vaginal canal. So I will be watching this chubby bundle of joy, while they go to the Fox Theater -- and get drunk! What the Hell! In case you didn't know, the Fox Theater has a bar for adults during Sesame Street: Live! They do! I am totally serious! That is just amazing, remarkable, and all around UN... believable! Who is taking their kids to a larger than life PBS production and cannot even stop their drinking for 1 hour. I mean these shows couldn't be any longer than that. Children have very small attention spans, not to mention bladders. I think that if you have to have a drink in this type of situation then this show should be brought to you by the letter A -- twice! All I can say is that I feel immensely sorry for whoever is playing Oscar the Grouch. Get out of the garbage can NOW mister!