Simple Childhood Saturday Morning Pleasures

Its Saturday morning!  Even though I am supposed to be all grown up, I always reserve Saturday for two of my very favorite things, a bowl of kid's cereal and cartoons.  I am a byproduct of an X generation influence - MONSTERS.

When I was little there were two things that every kid knew and loved.  Monsters and rock music.  KISS was the hottest band in the land with blood spitting Gene Simmons and their kabuki like makeup.  Children's television ruled Saturday mornings on three networks.  Cable was never a thought and you had to actually get up and change channels so kids had a tendency to sit right in front of the TV on the floor.  Because of that fact, the networks produced lavish, hyper colored cartoons and puppet shows.  I adored every monster and monster rock star they made.  Sigmond the Sea Monster, the Groovie Goolies, Scooby Doo, H.R. Pufnstuf, animated Sabrina The Teenage Witch and The Addams Family.  Of course to accompany this cavalcade, one had to have the appropriate breakfast, always a monster cereal with tiny little marshmallows.

No wonder I turned out to run a Gothic webzine, read tarot cards professionally and manage an amazing rock band!  A sugar induced, strawberry and chocolate flavored super show imagination made it so I never could leave the rockin' monster life behind on the big hand knitted rug in front of the old Curtis Mathes console TV.