These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. In 1966, three years before Sesame Street and a full decade before The Muppet Show, the first … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — The Ideal Muppets
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. In the past several … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Muppets Tonight, “Sid Knishes and His Mosh-Pit-atoes”
I’ve already posted this elsewhere, but I like it enough that it’s worth including here. I made this. Because I feel that cast member of Sesame Street would be a good option for Michael Stipe now that R.E.M. is done. Continue reading Monsters having fun, happy, happy
Ah, here’s Spectrum Check, back at it’s regularly scheduled time. So the first piece I had go up this week happened as a direct result of the intervention of my friend, a fabulous babe who a generation of Madison music fans know as Casino Queen. Somewhere around the midpoint of my ongoing countdown of the best films of the nineteen-eighties, she emailed me with the gentle but firm assertion that our friendship might be in jeopardy if the 1981 cinematic extravaganza The Great Muppet Caper wasn’t included somewhere on the list. I sheepishly informed her that it indeed would not … Continue reading Spectrum Check
Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo. Continue reading And I’ve got mad hits like I was Rod Carew
Given that Muppet-related videos make regular appearances at this humble little corner of the Web, it feels a little weird to refrain from embedding the trailer to the upcoming revival film, The Muppets. But then again, I did link to it yesterday on Twitter, and, by now, it seems to be practically everywhere. So instead, I’ll simply acknowledge that I’ve watched it multiple times and my reaction is the same with each fresh viewing. It looks a little like this: Also, I’d wager this is the precise moment when Jason Segel is the happiest he’s ever been, or will ever … Continue reading If you’re a human being, take a break from the race
There was a time when Uma Thurman was an actress that demanded attention. If she was in a film, it merited at least some amount of consideration. Maybe the finished project was actually not very good (or even downright awful) but she alone made it something that at least went into the “maybe” pile when sorting out film-going options. Sadly, I’ve noticed lately that, as I spin the digital dial considering movies to add to our overstuffed DVR, the opposite is now true. Uma’s inclusion in the cast list–especially at the top of it–is a signal to stay away. I … Continue reading Spectrum Check
I wonder if they’ve picked out the band to provide music for the next Muppet movie yet. Lightning Bolt would be a pretty good choice. Continue reading See you in the evening, see you in the dawn
Today I wish I was this guy: Continue reading Come and go with me, it’s more fun to share, we’ll both be completely at home in midair
Because some days all you need is to turn up the volume… Continue reading You’ll get those plain hot potatoes to satisfy your appetite
Coffee for Two 