Big Bird to speak at Commencement:

Over in my neck of the woods, the Villanova graduating class this year is none too happy that after all of the $ that they (or their parents) put into attaining their education & degree, that their commencement speaker is going to be none other than…(drum roll): Big Bird. Actually, it’s the actor (puppeteer) who plays Big Bird, Caroll Spinney. While watching this story on the local Philadelphia news last night, I learned that the already disappointed students, became even MORE disappointed when they found out that… (another drum roll please) unfortunately, no, Mr. Spinney is not going to be delivering his commencement address in costume.

And I was disappointed when my Alma matter could only scrub up one James Taylor (yes, that James Taylor) to be commencement speaker.