Muppeturgy

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A The Muppet Show Rewatch Podcast www.muppeturgy.com or wherever you get your podcasts

Paul Robeson got a great Grammy-nominated box set from Masterworks/Sony Classical a few years ago that put his recorded works in pretty thorough focus. It would be incredible to see the same treatment for Belafonte, who almost entirely recorded for Sony-controlled labels

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“Race, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. And Harry’s boyhood travels between Jamaica and New York fed his understanding of both.” How ideas of race and place both influenced Harry Belafonte’s music. lithub.com/how-harlem-a...

Congrats to everyone at The Muppets and especially Matt Vogel on their Emmy nominations. The Television Academy officially says fuck the haters.

A Facebook post from The Muppets announcing their 6 Emmy nominations. The caption says: The stage is set for celebration! #TheMuppetShow has been nominated in 6 categories at the #Emmys: Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special, Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Matt Vogel), Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming, and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special!

NEW EPISODE! It’s America’s 250th birthday! We’d sing it a song (it took two people to write it!) but we’re…ambivalent at best. So instead we’re looking back 50 years to when patriotism felt less fraught, the centennial was bi, and the culture was mono. www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/bic...

Bicentennial Bonanza! — Muppeturgy

It’s America’s 250th birthday! We’d sing it a song (it took two people to write it!) but we’re…ambivalent at best. So instead we’re looking back 50 years to when patriotism felt less fraught (but not ...

muppeturgy.com

NEW EPISODE! It’s America’s 250th birthday! We’d sing it a song (it took two people to write it!) but we’re…ambivalent at best. So instead we’re looking back 50 years to when patriotism felt less fraught, the centennial was bi, and the culture was mono. www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/bic...

Bicentennial Bonanza! — Muppeturgy

It’s America’s 250th birthday! We’d sing it a song (it took two people to write it!) but we’re…ambivalent at best. So instead we’re looking back 50 years to when patriotism felt less fraught (but not ...

muppeturgy.com

You point out how odd it is that there's only one ad for Star Wars toys, but what strikes me as even stranger is how there's only one Christmas themed commercial. Nowadays a two hour special airing in mid November would be entirely M&Ms meeting Santa and Lexuses with giant red bows on top.

Fifty years ago, I was in Washington DC. The new National Air and Space Museum had its grand opening. Everyone seemed happy, and there was Bicentennial stuff EVERYWHERE. I liked that national birthday more.