Open Sesame

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My daughter is going to be making a brief appearance on Sesame Street, in an episode being filmed Thursday. I'm bringing her to the shoot, and you know I'll just have to walk around asking everyone, "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?"

Man, this will be so much fun! Maybe even more fun than the day when I was walking through Phoenix Park and someone asked me the time! (Which was an unintentional reference to...?)

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  1. Anonymous3:48 PM

    Oh boy,

    Do they know daddy has a blog?

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  2. gcallah7:26 PM

    And Daddy has a brand new bag!

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  3. Bob Murphy10:23 AM

    Can you capture this and put it on YouTube or something? That's awesome.

    Do you know which character(s) she interacts with? I think I would rather meet Oscar the Grouch than Hayek.

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  4. gcallah1:08 PM

    I think she just interacts with other kids. But we saw the orange guy who looks like Elmo.

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