Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Not all heroes wear capes.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Let me file that under fuck it.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

In my day, never was longer.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Early Morning Open Thread: Happy Birthday, Jim Henson

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Today would have been Jim Henson’s 75th birthday. The good ones always go too young, but it makes me sad that I can mangle Tom Lehrer’s Mozart line: When Jim Henson was my age, he had been dead three years.
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Maybe this will be the year I finally finish my Aughra costume for Halloween…
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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    “The good ones always go too soon.”

    True enough, but not always true, and I have my ticket stub from last June’s Buffalo Springfield concert as evidence.

    Listening to the recording of Sonny Rollins’ 80th birthday concert the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder what a John Coltrane 80th birthday concert (which would have come up in 2008 if he hadn’t died in 1967 of a form of cancer that has a much higher survival rate now) might have sounded like.

  3. 3.

    MJ

    Happy Birthday, Jim Henson.
    My childhood days would not have been the same without Sesame street. Thanks for that.

    Don’t know if you can get emails in heaven, but thought I’d let you know anyway.

    :-)

  5. 5.

    Mino

    If I had to guess, I’d say that products of the weapons and entertainment industry are our primary exports, and our government back-door subsidizes the weapons industry. Entertainment is our genius.

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    burnspbesq

    Everton are putting on a defensive clinic so far, but it’s hard to sustain that for 90 minutes. Howard Webb has given some very unjustified cards.

  8. 8.

    Libby's Person

    The Henson Google doodle made me laugh out loud in delight last night. And it brought back warm, fuzzy memories of watching the Muppet Show way back when. Pure genius.

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    PurpleGirl

    Anne Laurie: You should finish it and then wear it to answer the door to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. (It’s a Sunday this year.)

    I’m adding some more ruffles to my Yarn Monster costume. (I’ll send you a photo when I’m done, if you want.) I’ve worn it several times to answer the door bell. The kids love it and one teenage boy really thought it was fantastic.

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    jayjaybear

    I had a female coworker once who looked almost exactly like Aughra. Down to the mustache. It was scary. She was the nicest person, though. I always felt slightly ashamed of even noticing the resemblance because of that.

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    Bruuuuce

    I miss Jim Henson. I remember being an SF convention in Baltimore and hearing about his death, and just breaking down; it was at least fifteen minutes before I could even move. (I was far from alone in that regard; there were wet faces all over.)

    Here’s something that was aired a couple of years ago, when the “Henson pipes” were made a part of the official NBC tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TtRpUOkWE

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    adolphus

    Neither the Land of Gorch nor the Mighty Favog are among Jim Henson’s best remembered creations, but his work on Saturday Night Live in 1975 and 76 helped him explore ideas later used in The Muppet Show, Dark Crystal, and Fraggle Rock.

    All Hail The Mighty Favog and Happy Birthday Jim.

    This was the only video I could find and it isn’t their best. If anyone knows where there are any others, I’d love to see them.

    http://vimeo.com/24652753

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    contessakitty (AKA Karen)

    There’s a new album that came out in August 2011:

    The Muppets Green Album

    Current alternative/indie bands like Ok Go, My Morning Jacket cover Muppets songs and I’ve been listening it to it nonstop today.

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