Part Mop. Part Puppet. All Crazy.
Some happiness and some sadness today. Just the kind of melange of melancholy and joy that makes The Muppets such a unique form of entertainment.
First, new Muppet YouTube goodness:
I’m a sucker for skateboarding bulldogs, Statler & Waldorf.
[Via The Muppet News Flash]
Next, Big Bird singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green” at Jim Henson’s funeral. You can really hear Carol Spinney struggling to fight back tears a couple of times during the performance:
[Via BoingBoing]
Have a Muppet-y Thursday
You're reading Mostly Muppet the personal blog of Seth Miller [About].
I don't really blog that much about Muppets, despite the URL, and focus mainly on Lost, etymology and whatever else strikes my fancy
The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Enjoy!
Joseph DeCarlo
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Seth,
You have the same video posted twice, instead of the Big Bird vid.
- Joe.
Seth
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
D’oh!
Fixed. Thanks for the catch, Joe.
Holly G
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
How did I not know you have a muppet blog? I am the biggest muppet dork there is. Working with “Del” in Vegas last year was the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
“Thank you Kermit”…
Did you heart that? It was the sound of my heart breaking.
Jonathan
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
n00b. go back to embedding school.
Seth
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
QQ
Seth
October 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Hey, Holly!
It’s not so much a Muppet blog as a blog that occasionally mentions them and has “Muppet” in the name.
It was actually a bet that landed me this domain name. A drunken college bet.
I need to buy SlightlyFraggle.com as well, if that’s any indicator of how inebriated I was at the time.
Mostly Muppet
October 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’m a Muppet Liar…
I said I wouldn’t post about Muppets that much, but I have. Recently.
I said “Mostly Muppet” is actually more like “Slightly Fraggle” (though I don’t own the domain.
I said a lot of things I didn’t mean because…