Dean basically said point blank “don’t make me do hometowns if this isn’t real” just to get immediately kicked off after hometowns. I thought that was totally classless, especially when there’s another guy who has all but committed to not being committed.

Dean’s dad failed at being a dad/parent when Dean needed him the most.

I lost a lot of respect for Rachel last night. Anyone with eyes knew she wasn’t going to pick Dean in the end, and she knew how difficult his family situation is, and she went along with doing the hometown and productions exploitation of this family’s pain just for ratings. Then told him she was falling in love with…

I really liked and appreciated Dean’s post about his dad’s faith. You don’t see a ton of media representations of Sikh people, so it was great that Dean made a point to express his respect for the Sikh faith and clearly say that that wasn’t what he meant when he said his dad was eccentric. It confirmed my impression…

I still haven’t gotten over it, myself. Every time i see a picture of Dick Cheney, I think, “Jim Henson is dead. Dick Cheney is still alive. There is no God.”

Oh, my gods, I have SO much Muppet bragging I’m about to do! Aside from the Comicon, one of my puppet films won an award from the Henson Company and I got to go to Muppet Studios and see EVERYTHING:

Adjacently related, when I first moved to NYC all by myself, many years ago, whenever I would be feeling lonely and blue in my Astoria basement apartment I would watch my DVD copy of Muppets Take Manhattan.

The issue with the new Muppet Show was that they did an amazing 8 minute presentation for the network and it was supposed to be a midseason show. But people went nuts for it so ABC rushed it to air and it didn’t go well.

This was posted today by Cheryl Henson, Jim Henson’s daughter and president of the Jim Henson Foundation. It seems like Steve was on the bad side of more than a few people.

The original Muppet Show, along with Star Wars and Stephen King novels, acted as a soundtrack to my childhood. When I heard the Jim Henson had died in 1990 as a 21 year old, it hit me surprisingly hard.

Well, I for one will be extremely shocked if that happens. Unless he goes to jailer shooting across and occupied car with another cop in it. These guys just like to show their dominance. My stick-it-in-the-envelope prediction is that cops will have to shoot a white middle-aged rich guy, and get it caught on tape,…

Predictions:

I liked it better when The Onion was a satirical paper, instead of a prediction engine.

Oh, I agree. Whenever I am talking to other white people about Black Lives Matter, I always end with the following: the other reason it’s important is because it’s only a matter of time before they start shooting random white people, too.

The meteor already hit us. It’s orange.

The officer in the passenger seat pulled his gun and shot Damond through the driver’s side door, sources said.

Or my favorite: “See black people? White people get shot and killed too, so let’s not bother doing anything about police accountability ever.”

Fuck every cop in America. I hate all of them because they are trigger happy, incompetent assholes. Oh and I say this every time a cop shoots a person no matter their race. I live in Chicago where this happens to Black folks far too often. I’m so sick of all of this.

The shooting of a white Australian is likely to provoke a very different public and police response than the many, many killings of unarmed black Americans by police in the last few years.

This happened to a friend of mine when a small dress shop closed a few days before her wedding. The police were there trying to match receipts with dresses in the back, only letting in one hysterical bride at a time. Luckily hers was in the store so she was able to claim in. If the dress was somewhere between the…