I could live here!

Do you remember your first encounter with a giant? I do. He was “The Friendly Giant” and he would be there magically waiting for you every morning as soon as you turned on the television. All the crew was there Rusty, Jerome, and occasionally the jazz cats, who I think had some struggles because they always wore sunglasses. You just can never trust cats with sunglasses.

The Friendly Giant, who was played by Bob Homme for close to 30 years, always had a mystique and Bob kept that mystique alive until the end of his career. Never making public appearance because he didn’t want to reveal the reality to children that he wasn’t as tall as the television camera portrayed him. It was one of my crushing blows of adulthood, while attending Ryerson University in Toronto, that Bob Homme in person was really nice like Friendly, but I didn’t have to “look up, look way up” to have a conversation.

Now I find myself much older and somewhat wiser heading to a different sort of castle everyday. But it’s the first day of school and it’s even better than “The Friendly Giant” because they have a coffee barista set up that makes the space shuttle look like a Ford Pinto. And to make it even better the people in the castle encourage us to play with knives. And then they feed us a three course meal at lunch. While I enjoyed many a peanut butter sandwich in my childhood, no offense Mom, but this is way better. I was going to take pictures, but I ate the whole thing.