Happy Birthday Jim Henson

[puppetmaker]

Today would have been Jim's 72nd birthday. I plan to watch various Muppet programs and a documentary I have on the Muppets in his honor today. I bet he would be amazed at the number of lives he still touches today. I know he was amazed by it back in the day.

There is a lot I could write about this topic but I have done so over the years.

So I ask you the reader of this web log, what is your favorite or most memorable Muppet Moment?

Yesterday was Peter's Birthday. We went for his traditional birthday breakfast. I had cleaned up his office for his birthday present. The girls gave him a deluxe copy of the Iron Man movie. Then we went to the Mets and Cubs game, ate in the Diamond Club, and watched the Mets win one. The Mets win put his birthday in a good birthday category.

Caroline, having been told that her birthday is after Daddy's, asked when it was going to be her turn to have a birthday. We explained that both Halloween and Thanksgiving were happening before her birthday arrived. She sighed heavily and said that's a long time.

I need to get my glasses fixed after they got mysteriously very bent. No one claims to know what happened but I am hoping that they are fixable.

It is a lovely day today. I think I may go out and get some more yard work done. I am giving serious thought to renting a chainsaw to get a bush back to size and get rid of a tree that should not be growing so close to the house. Actually, I would be perfectly happy to just get rid of both.

I am grateful that the Mets won on Peter's Birthday.

Comments

[lavendergem.livejournal.com]

I'll never forget the day Jim Henson died. I was hme sick from school that day, adn mom was driving me to the doctor's when we heard the news on the radio. I was devastated. He had just been on Arsenio Hall, and had a cold, and then suddenly he's dead from pneumonia?

Jim Henson was one of those entertainers who shaped my childhood. From Sesame Street to the Muppet Show to The Dark Crystal and so much more, I cannot even begin to describe his impact. I wanted to make puppets because of him, and used to put on puppet shows for my class, and practice ventriloquism in elementary school. I even used to put on the McGruff the Crime Dog presentations for my class!

His characters meant so much to me. I was in love with Kermit, but identified with Fozzie. I loved the "Mahna Mahna" song, and even got into an argument with a friend a couple years back when he didn't realize that was from the Muppet Show (we were discussing it because it was being used in a lot of commercials at the time.) My friend's wife even said to him, "Don't argue with her if it's Muppet related. She knows what she's talking about." A few days later, I received an apology from him. ;-)