College Kids & Intellectual Eggheads Love This Stuff

I feel as patriotic as Sam The Eagle when I see things like this.

Whoever Made This, Thank You

Feliz Natal, every one!

If I Ask For What I REALLY Want For Xmas

and


What's the point of being an adult if you can't be happy in your own dang home?

Phil, Gil, Jill, & Bill

This is one of the things I am thankful for this year.

This Is How I Know I'm Home

Coffee, In my own house. Not having to dress and bathe for the hotel restaurant, not having to answer the door for room service. And, Miss Piggy. Wonderful.

OK of Course

I mean, who am I if I don't post this?

Not Green, Not in Swedish

And then this happened on the internet. Much better than the actual Green Lantern trailer.



Thank you, Internet.

Like Chocolate & Peanut Butter

OK, so last year when I drove to Maryland and back to see my nephew, I listened to Della Reese the entire way. This year? I played the new Kanye on loop back and forth.

Mashing up what might be the best song with the Muppets? An act of extreme disrespect or genius?



I mean, if you can make the Virgin Mary out of elephant poop and call it art, then this too deserves its spot in the Brooklyn Museum. And Miss Piggy oinking out the best rap in the piece? My life is complete. Right key, right hole baby.

I Call This Trick "Shaping the Next Generation"

Dustin. Dustin, The Wind

I mean, why not?

In The Family Way

And now, here is why I believe in Intelligent Design.

So I'm supposed to like my niece a whole lot, right? Well, I certainly do. She's a goofy looking little peach, and I got to thinking about the ingredients that make her up.

I had been staring at this picture here for about a half second before I figured out who she resembled:


Yup, that's right: my Nana, maybe my favorite person on earth (seen here with Baby):


Need more proof that she was intelligently designed for my love? See photo here:


That's right - she looks just like these little Loretta Lynn Muppet babies from my favorite program.



God Bless, family, and DNA, and the Lord above.

Because It's Sunday

Cuddle Party!

This was not on the agenda for this weekend, because, you know, Brooklyn.

Also, I was a little afraid it'd end up like this, except for the whole co-ed thing.

Hornes of Plenty

She was a good old wagon, Ms. Lena Horne.

It pretty much all started here:

She kept going though, like here:


(a much less scary way to learn the alphabet than with this guy)

Thanks for the memories, ma'am.

Fair Maid Redgrave

Heaven just got another Redgrave.

While I will perhaps always remember her for the made-for-TV remake of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane that she starred in with her sister, I will choose today to honor Lynn's memory with this lovely duet.

Shorty Got A New Shirt-y

This was meant for the nephew. But it's maybe too cute?

Friendship, Unlikely Style

Sometimes this week we think about what it would be like if had never met some of our BFFs.

Here's some other BFFs, out in the wild. This is on top of the tale Amber told yesterday.

This one has a dummy foreign narrator (and a 5 second ad the beginning), but otherwise is cute, and allows me to use my Otters tag.



I love Orca!, starring Charlotte Rampling, in which the titular killer whale burns down a seaside town, that they forgot to bomb, bomb bomb. In other news, this Orca likes pooches.


I wonder if this only happens in Canada?

Here's one that doesn't have a happy ending (hee hee):


Right in the Peppercorns!

And For The Win? Here's Raquel Welch, star of Myra Breckinridge, & Miss Piggy covering Miss Peggy Lee. God Bless, America.

If That Mountain Crumbles To The Sea

Where'd the day go?

Anyway, here's something:

We Must Believe We Are Muppets

Now, two of my favorite things are Cyrstal Gayle and the Muppets. I discovered both of them at a young age, and I appreciate them just as much now that I am in my fourth decade (right? the decade you're in is one more than how old you are?).
I had this record here as a young tot, and would play it over and over again. I loved her pretty voice, and was fascinated with how her hair went down to her feet. I remember asking my mom a lot of questions about how she washed it and put a comb through it. It was only years later that I learned she was Loretta Lynn's sister. Who knew?

Gayle of course sang with Tom Waits on the soundtrack to One From The Heart, probably one of my favorite movies.
But more importantly to me as a kid was her guest spot on The Muppet Show. I remember this scene vividly, and remember rushing upstairs afterwards to sing along with the record (what Deus ex Machina my parents had it in their collection!) to sing along with, in front of the mirror. How I wanted to be on that pirate ship.

It was one of the very first things I hunted for on the youtube.

And here it is. Thanks Crystal, & Muppets.

Live Blogging! The Muppet Show Holy Trinity

Play all! Play all!!!!