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11 October 2005

I still think of you, Jim Henson

post by: kenko at: 02:24 | 24 comments

That is so sad...

posted by arse_hat 11 October | 02:28

:-(

Stop making me use these frownee faces today!

posted by WolfDaddy 11 October | 03:55

Bert, you're yelling again.

posted by shmegegge 11 October | 04:03

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posted by Wedge 11 October | 04:09

sorry... had to brighten it up a little. :D

posted by Wedge 11 October | 04:30

don't be sorry, Wedge - it was gooood.

But, meanwhile... omg: weird, weird. everything is making me think of death today. I'm partially freaking.

posted by taz 11 October | 04:37

My greatest desire when I was little was to grow up and be on The Muppet Show. Someone should have told me that my life's goals needed to be more flexible...

taz—I just hung up streamers of skulls and have been outlining skeletons for mail art the past few days. It is the season, you know...

After moving to Japan, I started having dream visits of dead family in August, the local time of visitation from the dead... this year every night had a different person as the focus for a couple of weeks... it was very interesting, unusual, and positive overall...

posted by MightyNez 11 October | 05:56

My greatest desire when I was little was to grow up and be on The Muppet Show. Someone should have told me that my life's goals needed to be more flexible...

Holy crap, me too! And that's the first time I ever heard anyone else say that.

posted by Orange Swan 11 October | 08:38

I was a card carrying Muppets fanclub member and looked forward to that damn newsletter almost as much as I looked forward to the tv show. I too had big plans of being on the Muppet Show.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 11 October | 08:44

Very sad. : (

The Muppet Show was my favorite show back in the day.

posted by sisterhavana 11 October | 09:12

It's too early in the morning for a gut punch like that, kenko.

posted by nickdanger 11 October | 09:17

Y'know, I really don't like the "Bert and Ernie are gay" meme, but this made me cry.

posted by briank 11 October | 10:27

Oh sadness...

briank, I didn't see it as having anything to do with the gay meme.

posted by Specklet 11 October | 12:50

Most people think that life sucks, then you die.

I disagree. I think that life sucks. Then you get cancer. You go in for chemotherapy. You lose all your hair and feel bad about yourself. Then all of a sudden the cancer goes into remission. You feel and look better. Then you have a stroke and you cant move your right side. Then one day you step off the curb &, bang, you're hit by a bus. Then maybe you die.

Because I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got any aspirin, I think I've got a cold"

--
Denis Leary, No cure for cancer

posted by puke & cry 11 October | 12:52

Aw, crap.
:^(

posted by deborah 11 October | 13:53

posted by matteo 11 October | 14:13

*sniff*

This hit me particularly hard. I think I'll be linking to it in a couple of days, to explain why I'll just be useless on the anniversary of someone else's death.

Muppet Show: I too was a card carrying fan club member, and planned my appearance on the Muppets. :)

posted by PsychoKitty 11 October | 16:36

I'm wearing my Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker tee.

posted by jrossi4r 11 October | 17:41

I'm still amazed at how in touch he was with power of silliness. I remember that monster who did an enraptured call and response with a ringing telephone. Even now it makes me grin.

posted by Frisbee Girl 11 October | 17:55

Oh, and the Swedish Chef. The Swedish Chef never failed to reduce me to a useless pile of laughter.

posted by Frisbee Girl 11 October | 17:58

. indeed.

posted by mmahaffie 11 October | 19:27

When I was a pup, my siblings and I used to volunteer at a National Park facility outside of Washington DC. It was a former chautauqua venue, then an amusement park, and was turned into an Arts Park called Glen Echo Park in the 1960s or 70s.

One week-end, Henson and the muppets, still mostly a local phenomenon, turned up for a series of live shows, on a make-shift stage in one of the old pavillions.

My first experience with Kermit the Fog was from a distance of about 15 feet, live, at an age when I was just discovering the power of theatre and the power of silliness.

I've been a muppet fan ever since.

posted by mmahaffie 11 October | 19:31

I can't even watch the "making of" doco on my copy of labryinth without tearing up.

That, and he looks amazingly like my biological father, who I haven't seen in about fifteen years.

posted by kellydamnit 11 October | 21:30

Muppet Central

posted by arse_hat 11 October | 22:35

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