My husband always has a song in his head.  Always.  His feet are always taping out a beat to whatever mystery song is in his head at that moment.  It would drive me crazy, but I guess he’s used to it.

And sometimes his internal ipod gets stuck  – in other decades.  And he’ll sing a verse from a song that I haven’t heard in ages.  Which will prompt me to ask “where the heck did THAT come from?”  And he has no idea.  It just comes.  From some dusty corner of his music filled mind.  Like this weekend, for instance.  When out of nowhere he sang the chorus from the TV show Blues Clues (“We can DO any THING . . . that we wanna DO!”).  Although we used to be big fans, no one in our house has watched that show in well over 5 years.  So where the heck did that come from?  What could possibly have prompted that tune?

Which got me thinking about good old Blue’s Clues.  Because I actually didn’t mind that show.  Well, at least when Steve was on it.  I really liked Steve.  He had charisma.  With his little notebook and his green striped rugby shirt.  Sitting in his Thinking Chair or singing his little rhyming songs.  His friends Mailbox, Periwinkle,  Sidetable Drawer and all the others.  He even starting looking cute to me.  Which is probably because I was stuck in the house with two little kids day in and day out watching Blue’s Clues over and over and over . . . because really, he wasn’t much of a looker.  And he had a really bad haircut.

But then Steve left.  To go “to College” they told us.  Which was a big fat lie.  Apparently he was growing tired of the role and wanted to pursue a music career.  Which I feel was a bad move on his part because really, no one has heard from him since (and no, he’s not dead.  That was just a rumour).

So his “brother” Joe took over the show.  And he pretty much bombed from the get-go.  He single-handedly killed the entire show.  I think because he tried too hard.  He wasn’t genuine.  He was a phony and a Steve wanna-be.  And he could never replace our Steve.

Not cool Joe, not cool.  You stunk.  And two thumbs up won’t ever change that.