Other links.

* Boycott General Motors? It makes perfect sense if the only thing you care about is embarrassing President Obama.

* Krauthammer: "What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." At least he admits it...

* Republicans have asked for 610 days to prepare for the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearing. What could be more reasonable than that?

* Futurama renewed. Saved by the Bell reunion draws one step closer. Shia LaBeouf will not ruin Y: The Last Man.

* Meme of the day: 30 Rock vs. The Muppet Show.

* And what is destiny?, from Very Small Array.

Sunday!

* Literature: no cell phones allowed.

JULIET: Fakn death. C U Latr.

ROMEO: gud plan.

Recently published narrative fiction is still uneasy about the telephone, much less cell phones or the Internet...

* In defense of The Life Aquatic: Jamie Rich defends the most unfairly maligned of all of Wes Anderson's films. (Via Rushmore Academy.)

* 'North Carolina Town Prints Own Currency to Support Local Business.' I support the effort, but I thought that was illegal...

* The Washington Post continues its efforts to make up for allowing George Will to lie with impunity on its editorial pages.

* Muppets vs. Zombies. If only it were real.

Too-long neglected Muppets the Fraggles are getting their own movie.

I thought for sure I'd linked to this "Muppetstar Galactica" parody someitme before, but if I did I can't find it. Via SF Signal, who seems to have the same attitude about BSG that I have about Lost (and, apparently, vice versa).

While I frantically reload my usual Web sites for any scrap of information about the Democratic caucus, let's give a big congratulations to darling of the netroots Mitt Romney for winning the Nevada primary. It looks like Ron Paul came in second. Here they are together, basking in victory. In the meantime, I'm gratified by this post at Open Left that notes the polls for Nevada were wildly off the mark—though there's always the possibility that they're off the mark in the other direction...

MetaFilter has a post this morning about music from The Muppet Show whose awesomeness threatens to reignite Muppet Week all over again. Here's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia."

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the glorious end of Muppet Week, and the Internet's oldest living meme: Bert Is Evil.

Muppet Week slouches towards its inevitable conclusion with the clip from which I took this week's tag, Kermit singing "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie.

Quentin Tarantino's camero in The Muppet Wizard of Oz is not quite as awesome as Pulp Muppets, but nonetheless it is still moderately awesome. I know I've linked to Pulp Muppets before, but here it is again:

Is everything all right in here? Yes, Nanny.

I cannot tell a lie: I was pretty fond of this show.

Desperate for the vaunted Canavan "Muppet Week" bump, Stephen Colbert makes a pretty excellent Guy Smiley joke early in this segment on the Iowa Straw Poll.

David Bowie is Jareth the Goblin King in the Jim-Henson-directed Muppet classic Labyrinth. Behold his magic dance.

Wrong-sounding Muppets. Just one clip of many in YouTube super megadump Family Guy vs. Jim Henson, a catalog of every reference to the Muppets in the history of the show.

Thirty years ago, a great man died in the bathroom.

It's really no surprise who I get nearly every time I take an online Muppet personality test.



Some people were just born to criticize.

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling... Muppet Week muppets on with what may be the definitive Muppet musical number, "Danny Boy." Via Neil, who also offers up the REM classic "Furry Happy Monsters."

People sometimes forget Yoda is a Muppet.



I actually heard the Weird Al version of this song long before I ever heard the original. This isn't why I was never popular in school, but it has something to do with it.

By special request, Muppet Week presents the Fraggle Rock theme (in both English and Spanish). Fraggle Rock is in a number of ways the most interesting of all the Muppet TV shows, certainly in terms of what it does with ethnicity and race using size as its pretty transparent metaphor. Like so many people of my benighted generation, though, I hardly ever watched it, because it was on HBO at a time when my family didn't even have cable.

Luckily, one of the primary uses of Netflix is the nostalgia mode. Also one of the primary uses of this blog, apparently.

Muppet Week continues with a duet between Oscar the Grouch and the great Johnny Cash. Have a rotten day.

The Muppets and war.