What Are You Listening to? Part 2

**Josh** · 07 Jul 2009, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by icarusfall

I really can't put into words how much I loathe puppets and the people that operate them.

Too punk rock for Sesame Street huh?

**cigsthecat** · 07 Jul 2009, 09:00 AM

Jim Henson is such an asshole for not believing in doctors.

**icarusfall** · 07 Jul 2009, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Josh

Too punk rock for Sesame Street huh?

I hated a lot of things I was supposed to like as a kid.

I don't think it makes me super special or anything.

**Josh** · 07 Jul 2009, 09:47 AM

Fair enough.

Hating puppets I can understand, hating the people that operate them I can't. Especially since those people tend to do it because it makes children happy.

**YellerDog** · 07 Jul 2009, 11:39 AM

People making entertainment for kids can go straight to hell.

**Mr-K** · 07 Jul 2009, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Josh

"By 2 a.m. on May 15, 1990 he was having trouble breathing and began coughing up blood. He suggested to Jane that he might be dying, but did not want to bother going to the hospital. She later told People Magazine that it was likely due to his desire not to be a bother to people."

In 1984 my father had bacterial pneumonia and consistently refused to seek medical help because he is a stubborn moron. My mother forced him to go to the hospital and the doctor said that if he had been a day later he would have died. My parents celebrated, apparently, by fucking and creating me. Sweet. I guess.

Jim Henson died the day after my 5th birthday. Bummer.

Also, holy shit:

In the final minutes of the two-and-a-half hour service, six of the core Muppet performers sang, in their characters' voices, a medley of Jim Henson's favorite songs, culminating in a performance of "Just One Person" that began with Richard Hunt singing alone, as Scooter. "As each verse progressed," Henson employee Chris Barry recalled, "each Muppeteer joined in with their own Muppets until the stage was filled with all the Muppet performers and their beloved characters."[30] The funeral was later described by LIFE as "an epic and almost unbearably moving event."