Brilliant puppeteer Jerry Nelson, best known to most of us as Count von Count, but remembered by me as Snuffleupagus, Big Bird's best friend who, during Nelson's run, couldn't be seen by grownups, died yesterday. He also performed many of the characters on The Muppet Show

Thank you for making me laugh so hard, Mr. Nelson, and teaching me how to

Thanks to ICFA, golf, ICFA, more golf, and recovering from ICFA and golf, I've been pretty much out of it (and mostly offline) for the last week or so, but not so out of it that I have not been kept abreast of the latest developments in modern culture:

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Thanks - I think thanks, anyway - are due to the BBC for recording this in the first place and ( Read more... )

The internet reminds me that today would have been the birthday of the late, lamented Jim Henson, the man who brought us pigs singing the Banana Boat song:

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Not to mention John Cleese with puppets:

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And, of course, the best performance Kenny Rogers ever gave of this particular song:

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The marvel isn't just that he made people laugh, but that he' ( Read more... )

In all the terror of the "disclosure" that Bert and Ernie have been not so secretly living in sin all of these years, and will now not be allowed to make honest Muppets of each other, have we all forgotten that Oscar is STILL LIVING IN A GARBAGE CAN? Oh, Sesame Street. Whatever happened to your message of sharing ( Read more... )

Spider Monster!

Thanks to Tor.com for the link.

....ANOTHER oil rig explosion in the Gulf?

Also, in case you weren't feeling depressed enough, Hurricane Earl is continuing to barrel along with sustained winds of 140 mph.

Clearly, we are all in severe need of Muppets:

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To help celebrate, here are some Muppets, which apparently I can't embed without knowing my YouTube password, which I have determined is not the password that I thought it was, but which I am otherwise blanking on. In looking for that one, I came across this one, which I actually like more, and is, as you shall see, equally appropriate in an ( Read more... )

For some reason YouTube is claiming I haven't signed in, so I can't grab the embed code for this, but Click.

I think we can all relate to this:

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From technomensch and matociquala:

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