Saucy puppet shows
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The creators of The Muppets and Sesame Street are staging a puppet show that is strictly for adults only.
Miss Piggy would blush over the antics in "Jim Henson's Puppet Improv" which spearheads a renaissance of puppet shows for grown-ups at this year's Edinburgh Fringe arts festival.
Every afternoon at the Fringe, an anarchic troupe of puppeteers led by the late Jim Henson's son Brian do an improvisational show for kids.
Every evening the air turns blue as the show takes off into surreal flights of fancy dictated by the audience.
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"The Americans are more action-oriented. They want to see the puppets beating each other up.
"British audiences are more intellectual. They like to see it sick and twisted, but in an intellectual way."
I should mention again how much fun I had at the sock-puppet version of
Showgirls....
By which I mean, don't let me impose my linearity on your perfectly reasonable tangent or whatever.
Words to live by.
See, I try to picture this in my head and think, "Tangents are linear."
Ooh, ooh! There were clips from the Muppet Improv at Comic Con (after the disappointingly footage-free Power of the Dark Crystal panel), and it looked hiLARIOUS. I really really really want to see it live.
Yeah, today is probably a really bad day to travel. Too bad I leave for a con this afternoon.
t starts revising packing list
So this morning, after hearing the latest freakouts on the news, but before actually waking up, I had a supremely bizarre action flick dream, complete with a shotgun duct taped to a suitcase to act as a handle, which was then filled up with dishwasher liquid (the shotgun, not the suitcase) and ammonia, siphoned off from a cafeteria cleaning area. But that's not the weird part. The weird part is the evil doer was Bill Murray.
Pretty much everything but the last is explicable.
Dana, that sucks.
Bad thought: it's really a plot by Dannon and Aquafina to boost beverage sales behind the security gates.
Bad thought: it's really a plot by Dannon and Aquafina to boost beverage sales behind the security gates.
Or maybe a fan campaign to get
Aquaman
on TV....
Miss Piggy would blush over the antics in "Jim Henson's Puppet Improv" which spearheads a renaissance of puppet shows for grown-ups at this year's Edinburgh Fringe arts festival.
Miss Piggy would never blush. She might throw things while yelling at the top of her voice. But she'd never blush.
bon bon, I know I'm coming in late to this, but the federal government uses a lot of in-house counsel. Generally, the Justice Department does the heavy litigating and relies on in-house counsel at the agencies for a lot of the nuts and bolts.
This is def on my radar too. Although I think DoJ would be fun as well.
