Author: Kathleen David

Finally, the colorized version is here for the– well, I leave it to you to guess who they are. Or you could just buy the book and find out.

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…is now available online at Ellison Webderland: Julie Schwatz Obituary. (Thanks, ME.) Read it at your earliest, copy it at your peril.

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• The sidebar has been narrowed, you should be able to see it in most screen resolutions.
• Bold and Italics can be done using HTML– <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i>, respectively.
• Yes, you can use a fake email, I suppose. But when we put in the “View all comments by this person” part, it will be checking by the same email address. So be warned– multiple emails will make it harder for people to look up your comments.
  We also reserve the right to put in a more secure system which would require a real email address, should we start getting idiots back.
• The link to my blog has been fixed. My fault, not Peter’s.

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eliza kushdu: Closer, at least this time you have all the right letters…

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Come back next time, when we gaze into the abyss and do this all over again.

…to the byline. This is Peter, back on line. Unfortunately, I can’t get Kath’s name out of the heading. Should have that straightened out in a day or so.

I’m back from the woefully underattended Creation Con in Pasadena. Expecting between two to three thousand people, they pulled in perhaps 800 attendees on Saturday. On Friday and Sunday, you could have fired off a cannon in the dealer’s room and hit only frustrated dealers. This was a convention that included Stan Lee, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, both Romitas, Russ Heath, and scores of others. I’m not sure whether it had to do with promotion, ticket prices, or the spiralling market.

Surreal moment #1: Driving to a Saturday morning business breakfast in LA, putting on the radio to hear traffic reports, and the first words out of the radio were, “shuttle debris.” And I thought, Oh, this can’t be good.

Surreal moment #2: Doug Murray, who spearheaded my coming out to the convention, pointing out to me some of the notables attending the convention, drew my attention to a leggy, gorgeous blonde. “That’s Lana Clarkson,” he said. “She’s an actress. She was in “Amazon Women on the Moon.” Barely 24 hours later, I would hear she’d been found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of Phil Spector’s mansion after being picked up by him at the House of Blues in LA.

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Peter will be taking back up his blog tomorrow. Here is a subject near and dear to my heart.

The Muppets have been up for sale for a while. EM.TV has had them on the block for over a year. It looked like a deal was about to be struck and now it seems dead. Some of the other companies that were looking at obtaining the frog and company including Disney have withdrawn their offers. Then there is SciFi’s decision about not producing the 5th season of Farscape which is a whole other can of worms.

All this is very frustrating to long time Muppet Fans. I should know. I am one.

I started watching the Muppets when they were on Sesame Street. I already had a fondness for puppets that, according to my mother, goes back to the age of two with a set of Wizard of Oz puppets that were bundled with Downey Fabric Softener. But I digress. Then came the Muppet Show, which I think is one of the most brilliant TV shows ever. My siblings and I can still quote large chunks of sketches from those shows. I became a Muppet Fan. Jim Henson had a big effect on my life. I would not be the puppeteer I am today without the Muppets. I can’t imagine a world without Muppets, but I may if this whole mess with EM.TV is not sorted out. The Sesame Street characters are owned by the Children’s Television Workshop and are not part of the deal.

People talk about “Dark Crystal” and “Labyrinth” as movies that changed movie making and what is possible. Jim Henson had a HECK of a time getting the financing together for those films. One of the reasons he did the deal with Disney was to get some financial security for his company.

But all is not doom and gloom. FOX is still talking about doing a new Muppet Show based on the old one. Time Life is releasing the old Muppet show on VideoTape and DVD. Pallisades has some rocking action figures available with more on the way. Hot Topic and other teen trend stores and catalogues have Muppet related stuff for sale. There is talk of more Muppet movies on the drawing board.

I’ll cross my fingers that when the dust settles the company that Jim Henson started is owned by those who know and care about my favorite felt and fun fur friends.