Today marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street’s debut on PBS. If you grew up in America, chances are you have watched hundreds if not thousands of hours of Sesame Street. Both as a child and with your own children.

What are some of your favorite Sesame Street memories? Who are your favorite characters? Do any celebrity appearances stick out in your mind?

Thanks for the memories Sesame Street. Here’s to another 40 years!

Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if you took some quotes from two of the most brilliant minds ever to grace the face of the Earth (Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking), set it some trippy synth loops and had Jack White autotune the hell out of it?

Me neither. But this is oddly fantabulous.

I hate to admit it but I’m the absolute worst when it comes to making healthy food choices. In almost every conceivable scenario, when given a choice about what to consume my default selection is always the least healthy option.

For example … Often when I find myself on the road for work, I will order two double cheeseburgers from the McDonald’s dollar menu for lunch. I know it’s awful, but one usually isn’t enough to satisfy my hunger. Besides, they’re easy to eat while driving and dirt cheap. Cost of a full belly – $2.

Today I found myself falling into old habits during my lunch break. I was hungry and wanted a cheap sollution. I was just about to pull up and place my usual order when I called an audible. Instead of the two fist-fulls of greasy death I normally order, I decided to try to eat the healthiest thing I could find on the dollar menu .

After a quick scan I settled on a McChicken sandwich and side salad. It wasn’t ideal because the McChicken is fried, but it was a step in the right direction. When I got back to my office, I decided to see how the two choices stacked up nutritionally.

Option A: Two double cheeseburgers

Calories – 880
Total Fat – 46g
Sodium – 2,300 mg
Carbohydrates – 68 g

Option B: McChicken and side salad (w/ 1/2 packet Newman’s Own Italian Dressing)

Calories – 410
Total Fat – 17g
Sodium – 1,205 mg
Carbohydrates – 52g

Motherless Child – Over the Rhine

The World Series kicks off tonight in New York. By most accounts I’ve read this Series looks to be a toss up when you look at the teams position by position. We should see a great pitching matchup tonight as CC Sabathia takes the mound for the Yankees against Cliff Lee for Philadelphia.

So it’s time to make your predictions. Who will win? How many games will it take? Who will be the World Series MVP?

When two filmmakers approached Donald Miller about making a film adaptation of his best-selling memoir Blue Like Jazz he was given the opportunity to do something most of us never get to do; He edited his life.

That experience caused the always introspective Miller to consider the story his life was telling. If his experiences needed to be edited to make for a more compelling film, why not simply apply those same story telling principles and live a story worth telling? Examining his life from the vantage point of a storyteller causes Miller to go on an inward journey. A journey which leads him to (among other things) reconnect with his estranged father, hike the Inca Trail in Peru, and ride his bike across the United States. In the process he learns that by embracing the role of a mere character in a much larger story, he allows “the Writer” to write a far better story than he could have ever written for himself.

Like all of Miller’s previous memoirs A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is intelligent, funny and though provoking. But where this latest effort stood out fo rme is that it is also very inspirational. I frequently found myself applying Miller’s story telling principles to my own life and asking myself if I was living the best story I possibly could. Often times the answer to that question was “no,” but the Writer isn’t done writing my character’s story quite yet. There’s still hope for us all.