Aside from stealing my idea... ahem. This might be the coolest/cutest/awesomest thing that has made me smile in, like, the last few months:

And it makes me think about the Sesame Street kids of 2008. I mean, dang. I was a kid of Sesame Street circa 1988. And to this day I can still, on cue, recite to you the millions of classic songs from what I grew up on.

Like this:

Or this(which STILL makes me tear up...):

Or this(UM. Do you even know that I just recited the entire song while watching this...):

I keep thinking about Caleb, the little guy I get to babysit for. How, in a few years he might just be getting his groove on to musicians and music that is still not written and Sesame Street skits that aren't around yet and in twenty years watching old clips that he will remember every single word too and knowing that his then forty-year-old uncle got to watch the same show he got to watch and that, really, really no matter HOW different we all are from each other and no matter what person you want for president or what religion you believe or differences we all have with each other...

we all will always have Sesame Street.