Mostly Muppet

I’m a hairy dude. Always have been, always will be.

Manscaping, short hair for Summer and facial trimming aside, I’m always just a follicle or two away from being mistaken for Sasquatch (a nickname I was gifted in high school) or Grizzly Adams.

To be fair, I’ve cultivated some of it myself. Hard not to if you’ve got a nigh-unibrow. But still, I like to think I’m creative and fun-loving in my executions.

Enter The Expanded Beard Type Chart. It’s pure genius, you’ll want to click.

For old-schoolers who prefer photography to illustration, there’s also a handy Beard Trimming chart from 1884 out there on the interwebs. Worth your time as well.

We all know what happens when I decide to stray from my standard Van Dyke, don’t we? If not, feast on these:

Maybe this is the year I tackle Whiskerino. I like the idea of doing nothing and getting a bird’s nest in return.

We’ll see what the wife says. Stay tuned.

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 I’m back at the well this afternoon.

First, a video response to Fozzie’s video from last week, by Rizzo the Rat & Rowlf:

Second, a very enterprising German driver who is flouting the authority of traffic cameras by:

1. Driving an English car
2. Posting a life-sized “Animal” doll in the passenger’s (left side) seat

Well met, herr driver! [Via BoingBoing]

iPhone camera dumped after roughly a month of neglect.

Coming soon/next, the point-and-shoot Canon (video included).

Coming later/when Jenn has time, the Nikon D80.

Here are some of my faves:

Happy Monday

The economy sucks.
The bailout will take a while to work (if ever).
The weather is rainy and dreary.

But at least we’ll always have music to lift our spirits, calm our fears and reassure us.

Unless, of course, it’s The Dears’ single Money Babies, which Jenn can’t stop singing on account of its inclusion on the new Paste Magazine sampler.

Music video and lyrics follow:

Video via Perfect Porridge.

Our money is elastic. Our money is elastic. Gotta get milk for the baby and our money is elastic. Decapitative laughter is keeping us alive. Cavalcades of losers, losing their minds. Hoping for disaster. Settin’ off alarms. Amid all of the deranged. Amid all the charmed. Do you remember that time when we thought we were gonna die? Well, baby nothing much has changed. And yet they haven’t been the same since at all. Our money is elastic. Our money is elastic. Gotta get milk for the baby. Gotta get milk for the baby.

It’s more than a little depressing and sobering, but it’s catchy and informative, nonetheless. When’s the last time you kept humming a chorus built around the Economic concept that “Our money is elastic”?

That’s right. Never.

Enjoy the rest of your Friday.

More from The Dears at The Hype Machine.

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