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And if you want the lyrics, again, you can go to the Schoolhouse Rock unofficial website. We love you, Schoolhouse Rock. We love that we grew up knowing you.

Another personal favorite (because I cannot stop singing that catchy tune). Plus with my political science major, I remember and am required to love the controversy that surrounded this particular interpretation of British rule.

I just cannot resist. Knowing that it makes my dear friend Pier’s day, I am posting her favorite Schoolhouse Rock (and having long played piano, I love this one too for the fantastic score).

Since I am down for the count today, I have decided that it is going to be movie time. I have so many movies.

So many movies! Most of them Christmas movies.

I do not think I will post them all at once, but I will probably do them in dribbles, just to tease. Or not. It depends on how scratchy my throat gets and how much entertainment I need.

But for good old fashioned entertainment, what sounds better than a little green eggs and ham?

I adore Dr Seuss.

If we ever have a child, it is my goal to decorate a nursery in such a manner that would make the good Doctor proud.

Of course, seeing that we have *all* the Dr Seuss books and videos and such to model such a nursery against, I am thinking the first thing such a child would need would be a good pair of sunglasses and a bottle of headache powders. But nonetheless. It would make for a otherworldly room, would it not?

I have been blogging about matters of seriousness lately as I worked through my reactions to inappropriate associations. I decided that I wanted to find something lighthearted, so looked to my childhood for something that brought me joy.

I found it.

Schoolhouse Rock.

If you are of a certain age (as I am) you did not make it through Saturday morning cartoons without committing a dozen of the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons to memory.

But more than that, if you are of a certain age (as I am), you did not make it though an American civics class test without looking up and watching 20+ students simultaneously sing a few words of this song, then scribble down the words to answer the test question “What, exactly, does the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America say?”

Schoolhouse Rock men and women, wherever you are now, I salute you.

via the Schoolhouse Rock website, where I found a full transcript on the wild off-chance that enough time might have passed for you to forget the words. As if.

I also found out that wikipedia, another of my other loves, gives us all the lyrics too.

Kattitudes is located in the heart of the South, where people actually live the oddest dichotomy regarding Halloween. Decorations and Halloween festivities down this way are second to none. On the other hand, others really do go out of their way to provide alternatives to what they consider the devil centric holiday.

I love Halloween, and fall on the side of the spectrum that appreciates and understands the roots of the Halloween celebration. I thought that the History Channel had an interesting albeit broad spectrum painting of America’s Halloween history. So, as a result, I have decided to share it here, considering that Halloween is quickly approaching.