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In retrospect, this should have been this week’s music Tuesday — Alice Cooper on “The Muppet Show” singing “Welcome to My Nightmare.”
Bonus:

Alice Cooper, Muppets, Welcome to My Nightmare
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Fuzzy Renaissance – The TimesEver since Jim Henson died, the Muppets have not had that much direction and have gone through several ownership changes. Disney owns them now and is gearing up to get the franchise moving again.
Don’t forget, there is an exhibition at the Smithsonian International Gallery through October 5. I’m planning on going [...]

St. Patrick’s Day, Irish, Danny Boy, Muppets

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Muppets, Christopher Reeve
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John Denver, Muppets, Christmas
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Well, somebody tried to make Reservoir Muppet (poorly), I think, and we already watched Pulp Muppets, so let’s go with something similar:

And for all your friends in Quebec:

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Our friend Tom (‘96 Film/Video) always had brilliant ideas to share, like Eating Las Vegas (“You can’t ask me to stop eating”). He was heartbroken when we told him that we learned someone actually did it. As far as I know, nobody put his Reservoir Muppets together, but I learned of something that is close [...]

Nothing fills my 1/128th Irish heart with such Hibernian pride as this performance.
St. Patrick’s Day, Irish, Danny Boy, Muppets
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If Johnny Cash were still alive, today would be his birthday. Let’s commemorate that the best way possible — video of his appearance on The Muppet Show.

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Aside from cutting through the food court at Pentagon City to get to the Metro, I spend very little time in malls. I did little Christmas shopping at Tysons Corner Center last week. I was successful, but reminded that even in one of the best malls in the country still suffers from the same problems [...]