I have a Google Alert set up for Abby Cadabby to make sure I don’t miss any news. My own recent post about watching Sesame Street from this blog showed up this week in an alert. Only listed under someone else’s name and on a different blog! Clicked the link and it took me to a splash page with hot ticket items listed like an iPhone and an eBay search box. Just not the actual text. Totally weird. And annoying.
Just parsing some of the traffic to some of my lenses. Why do people come to a lens about throwing an Abby Cadabby party and then just click through to look at pictures of cakes? What can I do about it? Are they planning to do the cake themselves? Should I include cake decorating supplies to help them? Aargh! Just wanting to improve conversion rates, but considering the traffic here is pretty much looky-loo except for the flickr pics, I’m not sure how. OK. Through venting.
I’ve been watching Sesame Street lately in the hopes of seeing Miss Abby Cadabby so I can write a little more about her for my lens or come up with some other ideas for party games, etc. The more I see her, the more adorable she becomes, which is good. She’s just not on there all that often. How’d she get so popular if she’s not actually on the show much? Ya know who is on the show a lot? Elmo. Uggh. Almost half the show is “Elmo’s World” which gets fast-forwarded through at light speed. I had kind of hoped in watching the show that I would find some other lens ideas of characters I like. But ya know - I end up fast forwarding through almost everything, stopping to watch Grover when he shows up because he’s still just the best. But my husband is getting tired of watching Sesame Street. 
Kermit and Fozzie (who admits to never having been to Sesame Street) are out on a press tour promoting the release of Season 3 of the The Muppet Show on DVD. It came out May 20. I’ve just added several clips of their interviews on TV shows and radio programs to Kermit’s lens. Funny stuff, although I’m not entirely sure who’s doing the voice of Kermit these days. It’s definitely not right. Sigh.
Found some Abby Cadabby fairy wings and have added them to the party lens. Also made up some games to include. Thinking of starting a whole lens just on how to do a costume because there are none to be found right now.
Pondering tonight - Kermit is a popular guy. You wouldn’t believe how many people are trying to find the lyrics to “It’s not easy being green.” Abby is also pretty popular, most because people are trying to find costumes and birthday cake supplies. Even the Count is well-liked by people looking for his cycling jersey. So what’s up with Grover and Big Bird? Are they just not cool, new or weird enough? Hmmm.
Blog post: Rarest thing on the planet. Talking about Abby Cadabby costumes. Includes RSS feed to subscribe to for eBay auctions.
Cool!! Thanks to the way the SquidTop page is set up, blogs from here already have a ton of authority, as they link to each other a lot.
Games added to Abby’s birthday party lens.
Kermit and Fozzie will be on The View May 21. They’ll be talking about the third season of the Muppet Show, which comes out on DVD May 20. (Not technically a Sesame Street thing, but Kermit is an SS alum.) I hope Fozzie bites someone.
