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Greetings all, Recently, I cleaned out my closet and posted some rare Muppet clothing items on Ebay. Among them are cast and crew apparel from Sesame Street, Emmet Otter-The Musical as well as a T-shirt given to participants in the making of Jerry Nelson's "Truro Daydreams" album. Thanks...

Thanks for bidding and good luck!

Howdy Muppet Central-ites, I'm having a big ol' Muppet stuff yard sale on ebay. Check out my listings: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZscruffnbanjo Let my stuff become your stuff. Happy bidding!

Howdy Muppet Central-ers. I'm selling some puppets that have been hanging around my apartment for too long. And if you're in the market for an excellent banjo, well, look no more! Take a look: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZscruffnbanjo Thanks for lookin'

I would pay the full price of a DVD for "There's a Hole in the Bucket." I'm stunned this clip hasn't surfaced on Youtube.

I highly recommend you attend Puppet Rampage. There's nothing quite like a Puppeteers of America Festival, especially if its your first National fest. They are truly eye-opening. In 1993, I went to my first National PoA fest, which was held in San Francisco and organized by Mike Oznowicz...

"This style is already being used by so many people and won't make you money or get you a job." Heh...neither of those conclusions is true. Puppetry is one of the few forms remaining in which the best method of learning is by apprenticing. Books are good and can be helpful, but nothing...

Its tough. Plain and simple. It requires a lot and often there just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. If you do decide to enroll, I highly recommend going as a grad student. Thereby, your course load consists entirely of puppetry classes. I pity the poor undergrads who have...

Heh..if I really wanted to scare you, I'd tell you that when you become a freelance puppeteer you might as well forget any job security or stability. And all those nice perks that most folks get with 9-5-ers like health benefits and paid vacations don't apply with your job. The worst nightmare...

There's a lot I didn't know about being a self-supported puppeteer when I became one. There's a lot that my fancy-shmancy UConn puppetry degree didn't prep me for about working as a puppeteer in the real world. Lessons like being a freelance puppeteer is 75% business and 25% acutal puppetry...

"They do not in fact downplay the importance of the Muppets in any way. They expose people to all types of puppetry equally. And as we know the Muppets are not the only part of this world." Well, as a graduate of the UConn Puppetry program (MA 2001), I can tell you that if you want your...

Also, UConn tends to downplay the importance of the role the Muppets have had on American puppetry. Its a good overview of many performance styles and contstruction techniques, though. But, as I've learned from many puppeteers, going to school does not necessarily make one a better puppeteer.

"So, assuming you really want all the muppet figures, you would have gotten them on ebay. " You're right..that's assuming I wanted all of the exclusives. I didn't. I'd rather have new figures than a bunch of repaints. I've got one Gonzo..I don't need 13 others (that number is an...

One of my biggest beefs with Palisades is the difficulty of obtaining the Muppet figures. Short of spending $50 bucks and becoming a Collector's Club member, which I really can't justify because I'm only interested in the Muppet line and not their entrie product line, there is no good way of...

Kermit Love designed and built the puppets for Whirleygig, may have even produced it. I know he also appears in each episode. So your assumption it was JHC related is not so unfounded. Nikki Tilroe, one of the background performers on Fraggle Rock, was one of hte main puppeteers on this show. I...