I’ve lived enough and read enough self-help books to see the inspired wisdom in the song “You’ve Got to Put Down the Duckie (if you want to play the saxophone)”  That’s so much easier to grasp than being told to let go of the past, stop stopping yourself etc.  Which would you rather hear?

My all-time favorite life lesson in song is below – the doo wop tragic saga with the inarguable truth “stoplights and love can be cruel.” Don’t I know it.  This stuff is wasted on four-year olds! Part of Sesame Street’s concept is to include bits that adults find interesting to get the parents interacting with their kids, but what about those of us without kids? Thank God for Youtube. Now adults can get their Sesame Street fix without having to wade through the letter of the day and other extraneous material meant for the target preschool audience.

This video reminds me of the old Irish Rovers’ song, Biplane Evermore
, particularly when the snooty fighter jets taxi by.  Although I admit I crane my head when the Blue Angels come to town every summer; still they don’t make me grin like the Red Baron Pizza biplane  squadron. (Could there be a better corporate sponsorship?)