“This story contains adult language, situations, puppet violence, and scenes that may disturb your inner child. Listener discretion is advised.”
Paul Elard Cooley’s stories of ‘The Street’ are a riot.
Paul Cooley podcasts his dystopian Sesame Street stories (stuffing, deep fried and chicken feet), which can be found at his website (http://shadowpublications.com/) or through iTunes.
What’s the premise you might ask? Essentially its dystopian Sesame Street noir fiction, so for starters there’s a drug war between Snuff (Snuffleupagus) and Monster (Cookie Monster), puppet violence and a bunch of definitely non-kiddie friendly shenanigans.
Why dystopian Sesame Street? Well, remember back in 2012 when Big Bird got a mention in the US Presidential Debates?
As an Australian I’d say more than 95% of any US election passes me by with little or no impact. Obviously there are the ‘Oh god, they really elected Bush again’ sort of moments, but for the most part I don’t really pay close attention to US elections. However, when Mitt Romney advocated cutting funding for the public broadcaster PBS (which makes Sesame Street) it was one of those stories made for sound bytes and Big Bird jokes.
The Street stories are set in what the Sesame Street becomes when the show is cancelled, and all the muppets are left to fend for themselves.
I highly recommend you take a listen.
Why are you still reading? Go listen. Now.
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