. . . and the balloons are getting their freak on. Hey, it’s a long night.

That’s all.

[via PopBitch]

 Thank you, ProJo, for reviewing a new Muppets Christmas special that airs tonight (although I don’t know if it could rival “A Muppets Christmas Carol,” one of my faves).

It seems the cuddly creatures will encounter special guests including an airport security guard (Nathan Lane, who seems well-suited to working with zany puppets) and a hopefully fun taxi driver (Whoopi Goldberg, who was a royal bitch once when serving us drinks in her bar) on the way to the North Pole, with Shrimp Pepe apparently stealing the show.  Since we’re out of town tonight, I’m taping it and will be happy to share.

“A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa”, tonight, NBC, 8 p.m.

I’ve been laying off recently, but am very happy to have noticed that the trippiest and probably best-est episode of the Muppet Show has resurfaced on YouTube. Brooke Shields doing Alice in Wonderland:

Dave Segal for Rhode Island House District 2.  Yes, he’s unopposed, but he really likes it when you pull his lever.  It makes him feel loved.

No way!  Jim Henson’s company is developing a Muppets, or at least puppets, movie for adults–a film noir called “Happytime Murders,” in which a puppet detective must solve a string of murders around a children’s show cast called the Happytime Gang.   I hope the Muppets themselves aren’t suspects, although we all know Miss Piggy can be a jealous bitch.

Welcome to this year’s freshman class… Brown, RISD, J & W… everyone.  You will find Providence is a wondrous but sometimes mystifying place.  If you are reading this then you have already discovered that the Providence Daily Dose is the go-to blog for ‘what to do’ and how to think.  We try to keep you posted on what bands are playing in what clubs, how to watch television, where to buy vegetables, who to vote for, and all things Muppet.

That’s as good a description of Ponytail as anything I could make up. Tonight is our chance to find out what the Baltimore press has been going on about. Much high praise for the band but it’s

Molly Siegel, the screeching and cooing Thumbelina who sounds like Ari Up imitating Elmo and Cookie Monster, that makes Ponytail something special.

I’m not hearing Cookie Monster frankly, and the guys are pretty damn special too. Check out the Aug/Sep issue of Bust. The band takes you on a tour of Baltimore where they met at the Maryland Institute College of Art (wonder if they know my niece.) The amazing video on their myspace (very bottom) indicates that their tuition dollars were not wasted.

Check out songs ‘Beg Waves’ and ‘Die Allman Bruder’ and tell me they won’t be insane live. If you are in need of a soul-cleansing spazz-out then get your sweaty carcass out to Olneyville tonight. Dear god it’s gonna get ripe.

starts 11-ish/Jeremy’s Sloth Zone/50 Agnes Street

Please help. Friends and family are getting worried — clearly he has become disoriented and lost. In this last known photograph, he appears to be wearing someone else’s clothing. He was last seen confused and disheveled, wandering around the Smith Hill area, mumbling something about skyscrapers and flobots. Shave him, feed him.

(Update: He’s back.)

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Presented as part of the Daily Dose’s ongoing fascination with and boosterism of Sesame Street. Backstreet Boys after the jump. more »

The Muppet show and Peter Sellers:

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