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autographedcatGreat column by Mark Morford in the San Francisco Gate:
"So it has come to this. It has come to an orphan HIV-positive female Muppet on "Sesame Street" in Africa. Let there be quiet and tragic applause.
It has come to the point where we can no longer avoid intermingling the worlds of sunny happy sing-songin' innocent Cookie-Monster days and brutal ravaging epidemic disease and deathly nights, and man is Big Bird ever confused and sad and lost.
But this is a good thing, this new character. Everyone says so, everyone with any sort of conscience or even mild awareness of the horrors of the AIDS epidemic senses this is probably the right kind of thing to do, even if it feels like it's not. "
Read the whole article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2002/07/17/notes071702.DTL&type=printable
"So it has come to this. It has come to an orphan HIV-positive female Muppet on "Sesame Street" in Africa. Let there be quiet and tragic applause.
It has come to the point where we can no longer avoid intermingling the worlds of sunny happy sing-songin' innocent Cookie-Monster days and brutal ravaging epidemic disease and deathly nights, and man is Big Bird ever confused and sad and lost.
But this is a good thing, this new character. Everyone says so, everyone with any sort of conscience or even mild awareness of the horrors of the AIDS epidemic senses this is probably the right kind of thing to do, even if it feels like it's not. "
Read the whole article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2002/07/17/notes071702.DTL&type=printable
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Oooh, interesting ...
Date: 2002-07-18 04:32 am (UTC)The email newsletter one said: (and I quote at length, but I include the copyright notice, so I feel karmically balanced! Particularly since I put the free email subscription link here.) :-)
THE MEDIA STEW
From the fringes of SF Gate, and then some...
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**Snuffleupagus Meets Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia**
The first HIV-positive Muppet will soon join the cast of "Sesame Street"
in South Africa to educate children about the deadly virus that infects
more than 10 percent of the country. The female character, whose color,
name and personality traits are still on the drawing board, will be
introduced on "Takalani Sesame" in September, as the last exhausted
glimmer of pure untainted childhood innocence whimpers and sighs and
finally collapses under the weight of nasty politically charged complex
human disease and deeply tragic issues of mortality and neverending
suffering and death. In somewhat loosely related news, the creators of
the Teletubbies are planning on introducing a new character to the
wildly popular toddler program next season, tentatively named Zonk, who
will allegedly be a mullato lesbian dwarf quadriplegic encephalitic
autistic scoliotic genius waterskiing dentally challenged philatelist
with multiple STDs and a wandering eye.
article here
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All contents, except the swearing and the random blasphemy, (tm) (c)
2002 Hearst Communications Inc.
http://sfgate.com/chronicle/info/copyright/
And the BBC coverage ...
Date: 2002-07-18 04:43 am (UTC)US politicians attack HIV Muppet
HIV Muppet 'not for US'