Comments on: Further Muppet Resistance http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:34:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mostly Muppet Dot Com http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-148133 Mostly Muppet Dot Com Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:15:28 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-148133 <strong>Incognito Muppets?</strong> If you blink during this clip from the now-defunct Muppets Tonight, you’ll miss a Muppet version of L. Ron Hubbard (of Scientology infamy) and Newt Gingrich (who shook my hand once in a mall in Marietta. It was like shaking a cold, limp fish). I... Incognito Muppets?

If you blink during this clip from the now-defunct Muppets Tonight, you’ll miss a Muppet version of L. Ron Hubbard (of Scientology infamy) and Newt Gingrich (who shook my hand once in a mall in Marietta. It was like shaking a cold, limp fish).
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]]> By: duane http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147869 duane Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:12:22 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147869 Jake, if you haven't already seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/" rel="nofollow">Meet the Feebles</a>, you absolutely must seek it out. Jake, if you haven’t already seen Meet the Feebles, you absolutely must seek it out.

]]> By: hypochrismutreefuzz http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147849 hypochrismutreefuzz Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:35:41 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147849 Free Huey, Dewey <i>and</i> Louie. Free Huey, Dewey and Louie.

]]> By: beajerry http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147741 beajerry Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:48:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147741 Oh....my....God! Oh….my….God!

]]> By: Bro. Bartleby http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147729 Bro. Bartleby Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:24:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147729 "Free Zizek!" lapel buttons are now available at the monastery gift shop. The brothers voted not to include "Free Badiou!" lapel buttons at this time. I might add that we do have a collector's item, a slightly scratched "Free Huey!" button. “Free Zizek!” lapel buttons are now available at the monastery gift shop. The brothers voted not to include “Free Badiou!” lapel buttons at this time. I might add that we do have a collector’s item, a slightly scratched “Free Huey!” button.

]]> By: des von bladet http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147721 des von bladet Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:37:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147721 <i>Free Zizek! Free Badiou!</i> Yeah right you're being all "free Zizek!" so we'll all be like "Oh Zizek and fries twice, for sure" and you'll be like "That'll be 28$" and we'll be like "What?" and you'll go "Fries ain't cheap, and there's a service charge". We know your sort, "bro". Free Zizek! Free Badiou!

Yeah right you’re being all “free Zizek!” so we’ll all be like “Oh Zizek and fries twice, for sure” and you’ll be like “That’ll be 28$” and we’ll be like “What?” and you’ll go “Fries ain’t cheap, and there’s a service charge”.

We know your sort, “bro”.

]]> By: Bro. Bartleby http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147689 Bro. Bartleby Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:34:40 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147689 Free Zizek! Free Badiou! To the ramparts!!!! Free Zizek! Free Badiou!
To the ramparts!

]]> By: lemuel pitkin http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147662 lemuel pitkin Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:28:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147662 The comments on Zizek and Badiou were some of the best I've seen on CT in a while. I don't approve of its closing, especially before I had a chance to post. Free the comments thread! The comments on Zizek and Badiou were some of the best I’ve seen on CT in a while. I don’t approve of its closing, especially before I had a chance to post.

Free the comments thread!

]]> By: Bro. Bartleby http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147657 Bro. Bartleby Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:02:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147657 Zizek and Badiou, Where are You Posted by Kieran Healy POST #151 Where is God in all this? Bro. Bartleby Zizek and Badiou, Where are You
Posted by Kieran Healy

POST #151

Where is God in all this?

Bro. Bartleby

]]> By: jake http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147637 jake Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:41:07 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147637 But why stop there? The Muppets, in Moscow 1917 (Into zee mineshaft your filthy bourgeois jackals!); or the Beer Hall Putsch--perhaps flying ol Enola Gay, or like Westmoreland and the boys Saigon '68. That's entertainment and history. But why stop there? The Muppets, in Moscow 1917 (Into zee mineshaft your filthy bourgeois jackals!); or the Beer Hall Putsch—perhaps flying ol Enola Gay, or like Westmoreland and the boys Saigon ‘68. That’s entertainment and history.

]]> By: jake http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147634 jake Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:30:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147634 Aw yeah Henson was a master. Imagine, tho, if he took his muppet-realism a bit farther: a NC-17 re-enactment of Jack Parsons' last few days, with like Kermit as the troubled rocket scientist-black magician and Ms. Piggy as his hotsexxay Scarlet Woman...yass...then various other muppets playing L. Ron, Uncle Al, etc. Aw yeah Henson was a master. Imagine, tho, if he took his muppet-realism a bit farther: a NC-17 re-enactment of Jack Parsons’ last few days, with like Kermit as the troubled rocket scientist-black magician and Ms. Piggy as his hotsexxay Scarlet Woman…yass…then various other muppets playing L. Ron, Uncle Al, etc.

]]> By: Tad Brennan http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147631 Tad Brennan Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:33:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147631 Jesus--I always knew that story about Jim Henson dying of pneumonia was a fake. They killed him!! And Kermit!! And Ernie too!! (And there I had always thought he was killed by Bert, teaming up with Osama). Actually--I gotta say--Henson was very cool, and I was very bummed at his death. Jesus—I always knew that story about Jim Henson dying of pneumonia was a fake. They killed him!! And Kermit!! And Ernie too!!

(And there I had always thought he was killed by Bert, teaming up with Osama).

Actually—I gotta say—Henson was very cool, and I was very bummed at his death.

]]> By: jake http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147630 jake Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:32:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147630 Apart from the usual CT kitsch, the political implications of L. Ron and Scientology have yet to be addressed (tho Mike Davis took some ineffectual, westside-marxist shots at 'em). Any rational person passing by the massive CoS temple complex on Sunset might speculate what really goes on behind the scenes with CoS; like the masons, or catholicism ( or saudi Imams for that matteer) the CoS is part of US Operation Mindph*ck, and in essence opposed to any sort of Jeffersonian values (but then so are, say, the regents of the University of California). Those people who have worked with (or Osiris forbid, for) Appliantologists generally have some tales to tell about their oddities---the programming, the various secret teachings of Dianetics, the sort of Spencer-lite insistence on aggression. Like Aynnie Rand's cult (tho the Randians less sinister than the CoS), L.Ronism caters to the nouveau riche of Hollywood, to upbeat, hyper-assertive people who want to be free of any guilt regarding their success, who can smile 24/7: Dale Carnegie on meth Apart from the usual CT kitsch, the political implications of L. Ron and Scientology have yet to be addressed (tho Mike Davis took some ineffectual, westside-marxist shots at ‘em). Any rational person passing by the massive CoS temple complex on Sunset might speculate what really goes on behind the scenes with CoS; like the masons, or catholicism ( or saudi Imams for that matteer) the CoS is part of US Operation Mindph*ck, and in essence opposed to any sort of Jeffersonian values (but then so are, say, the regents of the University of California). Those people who have worked with (or Osiris forbid, for) Appliantologists generally have some tales to tell about their oddities—-the programming, the various secret teachings of Dianetics, the sort of Spencer-lite insistence on aggression. Like Aynnie Rand’s cult (tho the Randians less sinister than the CoS), L.Ronism caters to the nouveau riche of Hollywood, to upbeat, hyper-assertive people who want to be free of any guilt regarding their success, who can smile 24/7: Dale Carnegie on meth

]]> By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147615 John Quiggin Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:14:43 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147615 Thanks to the time lags in going from the US to Australia, MMC was brand new when I first watched TV. All I can remember, though, is the song and Annette. Thanks to the time lags in going from the US to Australia, MMC was brand new when I first watched TV. All I can remember, though, is the song and Annette.

]]> By: joe o http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-147608 joe o Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/12/further-muppet-resistance/#comment-147608 <a href="http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:6wc_pu1I15QJ:www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/4173/scott.html+l+ron+hubbard+muppets&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow"> one of the muppet babies writers was a scientologist.</a> one of the muppet babies writers was a scientologist.

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