Mummenschanz was on ZOOM
… a few times, which may be why the reader remembers them on Sesame Street. Same network, era, and time of day.

Chocolate gummis
are fantastic. And Moonstruck chocolate here in Portland has been offering ancho-infused chocolate bars for at least a decade.

I can name obscure bands, too!
How can you have a list of Canadian indie rockers without mentioning Morley Safer? I mean, he's not a musician per se but he sure is Canadian.

I knew better…
… than to see either of these Seuss adaptations, both clear attempts for the family to cash in after Theo. Geisel's death. I'm horrified to think what the Schulz family has in store for the Peanuts characters, although it's probably pretty tough to outdo Flashbeagle.

True metal
1998 was an excellent year for epic metal - solid and memorable sophomore releases from Nightwish (Oceanborn), Rhapsody (Symphony of the Enchanted Lands). And Iced Earth released Something Wicked This Way Comes. All three of these albums defined (or re-defined) the respective bands, and all three bands…