The final season of Sesame Street

 

There was apparently some concern about the future of Sesame Street. I didn't follow the news, though I'm pretty sure I also heard something about Netflix picking it up for the future. But that's not what we're talking about here. Or, not exactly. We are talking about my Sesame Street. Because I work on Sesame Street, at my library. And this is my final season.

This is an analogy I have made in the past, where I likened the library to Sesame Street.  Indeed it has been decades since I first looked up and noticed how much all my co-workers were like muppets. From that it was an obvious leap to how the very environment and focus of my large library was a bit of a ringer for the world of the legendary children's television show. As soon as AI generation was remotely up to it, I did my best to come up with some rudimentary 'muppet at the library' photographs from those earlier days of photo generation, because, on its best days, and even just its pretty good ones, my library is so much a Sesame Street kind of place. It is full of its regular denizens, stock characters that are still unique, and a kind of sheltered community removed a little from a world that's a little harsher than it usually is here at a library.

My library is also keen on numbers and letters, sometimes obsessively so!

And so today, feeling a little peaceful about everything at my job I once again thought it was time to try to make everyone into a muppet, that is, into a sesame street character, if I could.

And I can.

Some of these pictures are downright uncanny in portraying the person they are of. If you are a reader with no familiarity with these people, perhaps it will be missing some of the magic in these strangely perceptive renditions, but maybe not. There's still a lot of personality here to enjoy. After all, wouldn't anyone want to visit a library staffed by all these muppets?