It's been a while. I've been busy.
Stephen Metcalf speaks of Where The Wild Things Are on Slate's Culture Gabfest:
Especially awful in this instance, because Sendak is a genius when it comes to the nature of childhood-its neurosis, its fears and furthermore, he gets into the mental and imaginative world of children brilliantly and... this strikes me as exactly the opposite of the movement of Gen-Y creative people which is this avalanche of forced whimsy under which they bury everything, which utterly sentimentalizing childhood -and for them to now try to score points by reaching out to Maurice Sendac for "cred" on the issue of the dark nature of childhood is utterly repulsive.