15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

Good to read that the back is behaving, Cash.

Looked at links. Very attractive chair. Lovely family photo. Sucks that the family was gathered for a sad event, but the family portrait really came out well.

My PCP stalks me on the hospital's computer system.

Case in point...I had a nutritionist appointment on Tuesday where I found out I'd lost 3.5 pounds in the last month. Today I get a note from my PCP congratulating me on my weight loss. Freaky. In a goodish way.

My mother desperately hoped my sisters and I would watch Mr. Rogers, but he creeped out all of us and we'd start to cry when he came on. Thank god for Captain Kangaroo.

Tom, thanks for that link. I loved Mr. Rogers.

Cashmere, I'm very glad to hear your back is doing better. It's such a tricky thing, the back!

I loved Captain Kangaroo as a child. My mother still gets reminded that she took away my Captain when she put me in morning school. Um, no VCR in the 50s.

From Tom's Mr. Rogers link, see me melt in awwww

15. The sweaters. Every one of the cardigans he wore on the show had been hand-knit by his mother.

I just got my household porn catalog. I NEED the Recharge Station/Whiteboard: [link]

I can't even think about Mr. Rogers for too long or I get all teary at how thoroughly, down to the bone decent he was, and how that decency was a kind of genius.

JZ speaks my heart.

One of my marathon training team members brought up the Rogers haters last Saturday. Totally random and upsetting.

As I've probably said a hundred times here, an ex-BF and his da both worked at WQED in Pittsburgh and introduced me to Fred in passing. He exuded grace (in the spiritual sense) and the down to the bone decency of which JZ spoke. Just an amazingly real fellow. Did he snap at the staff sometimes, why yes he did. Was he a person with his own issues (his kids troubles, as mentioned), why yes he was. BUT, he was a man who lived his convictions more fully than anyone I've ever even heard of.

I get the schmarm affect, but I also chalk that up to the era and production values.

Some idiotic bloviator, possibly for the Washington Post but I'm too lazy and too irritated by the bloviating to double-check

WSJ -- and true to form for their opinions page, it was basically using the Mr. Rogers rant as the hook for yet another round of the same old bloviating about how everything that's wrong with our society is the fault of the damn liberals and their damn feel-good 1970s. Little to no actual Rogers content, and I wouldn't even give them the excuse to pump up their hit count.

I NEED the Recharge Station/Whiteboard:

That's pretty cool.