On September 24, Muppets creator Jim Henson would have been 75. And in his honor Google has rolled out its latest amazing Doodle a little early. The Jim Henson Doodle features six original Muppet characters whose shapes suggest the Google …
Continue ReadingThe new year is a time to make changes, explore, and develop yourself as a person. It’s a time to take risks and channel the unexpected. To help start your new year off on a bizarre and slightly creepy note, I had to pass on something a friend shared with me. I would bet many of […]
Continue ReadingThe folks at Iowa Public Television unearthed this wonderful 15-minute video from 1969 in which a young Jim Henson teaches you how to make puppets from ordinary household objects. If you can get past the slightly jarring image of Henson …
Continue ReadingIt’s been 20 years since the world lost Jim Henson, and I still can’t think about it without tearing up a bit. His death at age 53 was sudden and catastrophic, like being hit by lightning on a cloudless day. Along with countless others around the world who had never met him, I felt like […]
Continue ReadingThe Muppets are like popcorn and ice cream: it’s hard to imagine anyone not liking them. We Muppets fans love to see the new stuff The Muppets Studio is releasing online — nobody enjoyed their “Bohemian Rhapsody” more than we …
Continue ReadingAhh, the eighties! A formative time for many of us GeekDads, and a time of energetic, if not always excellent, experimentation when it came to fantasy and science fiction in film. Take for example the topics of our current GGD: …
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