February 2012
4 posts
This evening...
I had a blast filming tonight for Death By Puppets. I’ve not seen any outtakes yet, but I certainly shredded my voice along the way.
January 2012
18 posts
sunrisethenerdfighter asked: nice to see another thirty something nerdfighter on tumblr :)
The Old Man and the YA Fiction
I’m just cutting and pasting from my G+ post on this, which was largely cut and pasted from my daily 750words.
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A really long bit of daily writing as I try and unpack why I, a putatively grown-ass man of 36 (with wife and kids), enjoy the YA novels of +John Green so much. I’m going to post this without editing it as much as I probably should… ignore as...
Watchdeathbypuppets:
We are shooting and Charles has something to say…
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My Puppetry projects
I’m working on a couple of puppetry projects currently, and will continue to post things here on my personal tumblr referencing them, but thought I’d discuss them here in case anybody wanted to follow those tumblrs as well.
The first is my troupe Death By Puppets (of which me and my dodgy puppet construction and performance is only a small part: with Maria also doing puppeteering and...
December 2011
3 posts
A Puppet A Week
I posted this originally on the “official” blog for this project: Puppet A Week. I was going to make a Len Peralta puppet to go with my JoCo puppet to do an announcement video, but instead I’m going to do the Len as the first week’s puppet (starting in TWO DAYS!).
In the tradition of Len Peralta and Jonathan Coulton I’m kicking off a year long project of weekly insanity....
November 2011
7 posts
Watchthedailywhat:
Kickass Cover of the Day: From tonight’s episode of Late Night, Jimmy Fallon as Jim Morrison covering an extended cut of the “Reading Rainbow” theme song.
[lnwjf.]
Reblogging this because I can’t “heart” it as many times as it deserves.
October 2011
10 posts
Kermit as Mogul, Farting Fozzie Bear: How Disney's... →
muppetmusic:
I’m not putting a whole heck of a lot of stock in this Hollywood Reporter article. Basically what it amounts to is that Frank Oz and some other Muppet veterans don’t think the new movie is going to be very good or respectful enough of the Muppets’ past.
What people need to realize, when the inevitable backlash occurs, is that very few of the original creative minds are involved...
John Green's tumblr: On Capitalism →
fishingboatproceeds:
Could you talk a little bit about why you support Capitalism? frenchlama
(reposting as a text post by request so people can comment on it, etc.)
Sure, although just to be clear: Almost everyone in the entire world supports at least some measure of capitalism, including ostensibly…
I can’t recall a time when I’ve listened to, or read, something John...
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Mummy?
doctorwho:
unstalkable:
BET. Half the people who reblogged this didn’t catch the Doctor Who reference.
Maybe they did.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune (via wilwheaton)
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September 2011
5 posts
Playing out the String
inthefade:
americanmccarver:
“Anyone want four free tickets to tonight’s Mets game?”
“What’s the catch?”
“You have to watch the Mets.”
[Overheard on Twitter from Michele.]
Follow-up conversation:
“I’ll take the tickets. My husband will take the three kids to the game.”
“That’s kind of like child abuse, isn’t it?”
reblogged just for jenconnic
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in the fade: The Top 100 Challenged/Banned Books... →
I love the idea of picking a book and writing about what it means to you. I also love the quote in @inthefade’s other post on BBW: *Free people read freely*
inthefade:
Do yourself and the free world a favor. Pick one of these and:
Read it out loud today. To anyone.
Read it in public.
Record yourself reading a passage.
Post about one of these books and what you learned from it and why...
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July 2011
5 posts
John Green & The Great Gatsby →
fishingboatproceeds:
operationaltruth:
I decided I would start rereading The Great Gatsby so I could keep up with John’s analysis of it.
And thus I discovered, after rereading the first two pages, I still find myself asking, “Nick…what the hell did you just say?”
Just take your time. Keep going. The language is beautiful, but that can make it feel dense, particularly at first....
