UPDATE: To explain the blogspot site address, yes I did sign up for it a long time ago, and I drew this comic up yesterday, posted it, and went to modify the site to something funny, but couldn’t sign in. It’s saying it’s sending the password reset to my gmail account, but I don’t think I signed up with a gmail account. So, out of luck on this. I might change the blogspot URL on the sign soon so come back!
Original Post:
I thought would take this opportunity to tell you about a recurring nightmare I had as a kid: Elmo from Sesame Street.
Here’s the setup: I’m cleaning a room overflowing with toys. One by one I take the toys off the messy pile and put them away. Soon I am at the last toy, at the bottom of the pile. It’s Elmo, face down on the floor. For some reason I feel anxious. I don’t want to pick him up. But I have to, because if i don’t, the room isn’t clean. So I grab him and slowly turn him around to face me… and his wide-open eyes stare right into mine. I can’t move, and I can’t scream. Then I wake up.
That’s it. I don’t know if that’s scarier, or the dream where the aliens who say “Yip yip yip.. uh huh, uh huh” appear in my room while I sleep. In any case, Sesame Street did a lot of damage to my psychosis. That is all.
My wife is still terrified about those aliens. When she was a little girl, she had to sleep with the light on because she was afraid they would fly into her window. What demented people came up with those?!
Seriously! Creepy, bug-eyed aliens with mouths big enough to swallow a child, who materialize into any room at any moment and float around babbling nonsense? Yeah, that won’t scare anyone…
Love it when you write something totally unrelated.
Wow there’s actually someone who set up a blog of that name.
yeah I bothered looking it up!
homeless people and the internet these days….
It was me! But I’m locked out of it so I couldn’t update it. I’m going to change this soon.
Thorough to the last point!
Awww, I loved those little alien guys. And Elmo. I did not however like the grouch. He was a d***head. Heck I think I may have called him that when I was little. . . Oh what an unpredictable child I was. . .
Hah, that would have been a funny sight to see, a kid cussing out the grouch. He was quite grouchy.
Heh, funny.
I assume the similarly coloured background at that blog means that you own it, too? If so, are you going to make some posts there as The Guy on the Street? Could be a fun off-shoot.
Yep, I might have to use a different URL though. The password recovery isn’t helping and the “help” form is laughably unhelpful.
Good comic and nice story that reminds me of an episode of the Muppet Show that always freaked me out, I don’t even know if it was real or not, but everyone in the episode died in some way or another and it terrified me for the longest time, even now I’m still trying to remember if it was an actual episode or I dreamed it
That sounds kind of vaguely familiar. Now I’m going to be thinking about that.
When I watched Sesame Street, there was no Elmo.
Interesting! He was always there in my youth. Learn something new every day.
The puppet existed, but not as a character with a name until 1985.
When I watched Sesame Street, there was a grouch in a garbage can, the cookie monster actually ate cookies, there was no elmo-thing to hurt my brain, and Mr. Hooper was still alive.
Of course, I can also still remember when Morgan Freeman was on Electric Company, you do the math.
Yeah what’s he now, the veggie monster or something? So ridiculous. That’s Captain Vegetable’s job anyway.
If the homeless people don’t go hightech they will be left behind. Sesame street was way after my time. My kids watched it and that might explain a lot of things.
Yep. Scared me as a kid but I think good things came from it.
I went to the blog. Guys name is Sam. He’s terrible at updating. And NOTHING about sandwiches, what the heck! *disappointed*
Just updated the blog to explain. Come back soon!
Cookie Monster wants more than just cookies…he wants your FLESH!
I would have loved it if Sesame Street had a Flesh Monster.
LOL!!
Sign of the times….. Even the homeless are goin ‘High Tech’
Why not….
You gotta stay on top of things, that’s for sure.
I had nightmares for years after an episode of Ken Dodd and the Diddymen involving a Diddyman who lost his mind and turned Diddy Savage. So I can understand your pain.
I think nightmares can serve a good purpose- to keep us on our toes. I know I still peek down alleyways for a stalking Elmo behind a dumpster. You can never be too prepared.
man… you were so easily damaged as a kid… Christmas Story freaked you out, Sesame Street traumatized you….good thing Teletubbies and Furbies weren’t around then!
Whats the status of Fraggle Rock in all this?!? LOL
Fraggle Rock was fine! It’s just things that can appear and eat me that I don’t like. Things like Elmo, or an Evil Santa with Leg Lamps for legs.
‘Fraggle Rock’ had the rare scary-ass monster, namely the huge scorpion-crab from one episode that my subconscious wont allow me to revisit.
Good ol’ Jim Henson; as much as he loved entertaining children, he also got a kick out of scaring the hell out of them!
I did the same thing. I signed up for blogger account and forgot my password. It said it was being sending to my gmail account. I couldn’t remember signing up for that either. In the end, I switched to wordpress.
Yeah what’s up with that? And blogger now forces you to open a Google account if you don’t already have one. Damn capitalism….
Homeless people used to have dogs, now they have a laptop with internet connection. No idea where the bills are sent to, though. They probably use unsecured wifi connections.
Oh yeah there is a surprising number of people (probably a majority of people) who don’t secure their wifi. Strange!
I had nightmares about Elmo too. Except mine involved underwater battles in what was a submarine that looked like a star ship from star trek. And all the soldiers were scared, so me and my badass self hopped on the underwater segway type thing, and I scootered around the corner, and encountered Elmo… He was red, and laughing, with red eyes. He laughed, and wanted me to tickle him, and then threw a little red fluff ball at me. Which exploded. And burned. All the while that maniacal giggling echoed in the underwater halls of the submarine. It was an epic battle. Terrifyingly epic battle.
Wow sounds horrible! I’d like to see a movie about such a battle. Make one, please.
Maybe we can twitter him some cash??!!
Or facebook?
Homeless guy with a website? I can beat that. A while back, mom and I came across a woman panhandling on a rather busy street here in L.A, she was talking on a cellphone. Mom hadn’t noticed, so she donated, I left some change and took my mom’s dollar back. It’s one thing to ask for bus change or something, but WHOA that lady had balls.
Hah, wow. That’s nuts.
And I was just about to check on that website until I read the blog.
Yeah I still need to fix that…
I’ve seen homeless with cell phones, so anything’s possible.
Libraries provide free internet, and homeless people go to them often
homeless blogs seem more likely than cell phones.
I had a dream like that.. only with Lala from the teletubbies and her head pulsated. The vision haunts me to this very day..
Horrifying!
i will always maintain that Elmo’s greatest crime was shove out Grover. Now, Cookie monster is Veggie monster, snuffleupagus is visible to everyone, and oscar has been seen outside his trashcan. Elmo’s was the beginning of the death of my childhood.
I had a similar issue with an old blog on blogspot, because they changed the login procedure when they merged with google. However I emailed them and they changed it to be connected to my gmail address. Hope it helps.
Awesome! I’ll try that, thanks for the info.
you still haven’t updated that BS. . . .(blogspot)
lol i forget my blogspot login quite often because i have to use a different password. i hate when sites have limits on passwords. i like my universal password. i can key it in in less than half a second.
Yep and I think it didn’t allow my “universal” password, and I forgot the one I had to make for that, and I can’t recover it. Looks like a dead site now.