John McCain is a Zombie; Cookie Monster
Saturday, 21. June 2008, 14:08:59
Cookie Monster was on The Colbert Report recently, courtesy of Sesame Street. It isn't new that Cookie Monster no longer eats cookies the way he once did. This started happening in April of 2005. His new anthem was titled "Cookies Are a Sometimes Food"; that is, a 'sometimes food' as opposed to an 'anytime food'. Apparently he was a bad role model or some such, and people were concerned about obesity levels in children. [Google News Search: cookie monster sometimes food]
I kind of forgot why I found that so annoying until seeing this episode of The Colbert Report reminded me. Clearly, changing what children watch on tv is the best way to affect their health. Right.
Actually, this really annoys me because I never thought of Cookie Monster as a role model. The whole point, I thought, was that of course cookies weren't an 'anytime food'. But if they were, to a child that would be cool. So we got to live vicariously through Cookie Monster, for whom cookies were always an 'anytime food', which mitigated the knowledge that for ourselves, this couldn't be the case. After all, we weren't like Cookie Monster - we were children. Cookie Monster was blue, fuzzy, and a monster. Very different. Or maybe not so different - if you want to get more specific, and more Freudian, Cookie Monster can be part of das Es. The cookie-id, as it were. Cookie Monster is representative of the insatiable drive for cookies within us all, which we know must be tempered.
This is the point of Cookie Monster:
Cookie Monster is for knowing that donuts aren't as good as cookies, and that you can't eat the Moon. This is the kind of important knowledge that we all need. C is for Cookie, mofos.
Maybe I'll make a new blog header all about that. By the way, John McCain is a zombie. That is all.
