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Huh, I didn't know that! I thought I was just making a Walt Kelly joke. Ethel and Stephanie were mentioned in the Bohemian Rhapsody commentary. Buffy comes from "Buff Orphington," a kind of chicken. My joke, not an actual Muppet character. Louise... hmm, I don't recall where I got that...

Friday the 13th comes on a Tuesday this month. Most people think 13 is an inauspicious number, but I consider it my lucky number. Hey, someone has to be its friend. And speaking changing luck and people needing friends, here's the final chapter of "Before Gonzo was Great"... ***** Old...

In my opinion, the act of posting a story qualifies as publishing it. When you post a story, you are asking others to spend their time and resources reading your work. I'm not quibbling over the definition here--I'm stating that a story should be taken seriously even though it's not typeset on...

Hi all. Longtime Muppet fan, fairly recently joined this site. I've always loved telling stories. My Website, The Negapage, has a positively embarrassing amount of my fiction. Shoot, I've even been posting fanfic over here - "Bein' Blue" and "Before Gonzo was Great." I've recently published...

I don't have photos, but remember the twisted-nose Gonzo in "The Great Muppet Caper"? And in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" Joan Rivers painted Miss Piggy's face with thick makeup. I was flinching as I watched that, wondering if it would be possible to restore the puppet, or whether they had a...

When I read the thread title, the first thing I imagined using worn-out puppets to soak up the oil. Yuck. The next thing that came to mind was how it would break Gonzo's heart to see what oil does to seabirds. (I actually had to explain to a coworker that the nasty stuff kills animals in...

I'd like a chicken to keep my Gonzo poser company. Plus, I could use the eggs.

Thanks. I certainly plan to!

That's some of the references, heh heh. In this story I'm treating Monsters as an ethnic group. They're "legally human," as are any other sapient creature. Of course, it can be hard to decide what is sapient and what is not; for example, a critter that has no hands and can't speak any...

Here is the penultimate installment in our game of "Spot the Obscure References." Enjoy. ***** Car Wash Blues by Kim McFarland ***** It had been a dark and stormy night. Now it was a cool and pleasant, if damp, morning. Those who visited the South Bay Park stayed on the paths, which...

Yeah, I noticed that too. It's especially obvious in the second panel of the second B&W page. It looks like he's doing "the nose ball." My theory is that either Gonzo has had his nose bobbed or it's very cold backstage.

He was in some dog food commercials back in the '60s. I hear he's buddies with the La Choy Dragon, who helped him land this spot in the comic.

Pairaducks Lost is one of my favorites too. It was a beast to write because I was trying to work from Dante's Inferno without sounding preachy or didactic, but when I was done I was pretty proud of the result, if I do say so myself. Until my Oz book came out it was the longest story I'd...

Heh, yep, Catherine and the TMI are Avenue Q references. Kate Monster looks pretty much like a whatnot with fur; she's hardly Monsterish at all. I haven't seen Q either, but I have the book and the soundtrack, and love to sing "Schadenfreude" and "Sucks to Be Me." (And "You Can Be As Loud As...

Doop dee doo, here's another bit o' story. But before that let me take a moment to plug my book, A Refugee in Oz, which was just published by Lulu.com. It's available in paperback and downloadable PDF formats, and full of words and illustrations that hopefully add up to an entertaining story...

If you sing Rock Band songs in Muppet voices. My personal best is "Still Alive" as Beaker, Miss Piggy, Baby Gonzo ('cause I can't do the adult voice), and a chicken.

TogetherAgain, thanks! I'm glad that some of the elements I put in are coming through. Not to toot my own horn (OK, I'm tootin') the bits of alien culture are going to feed into a story arc I have planned to take up after this one is done. I like to read fiction that plays to the sense...

TogetherAgain, thanks, I'm glad you like this story! I'm enjoying writing these shorties. I normally write stories of around 15,000 words, and I'm currently in the final stages of publishing my first actual full-length printed-on-dead-trees novel, so writing short little "snackfics" is a welcome...

*laughs* I had so much fun looking at that page. Give me a background full of nifty stuff and I'll comb through it for Easter eggs. Here's the list I posted in another forum: Fozzie Bear Angus McGonagle, The Argyle Gargoyle (a very obscure Muppet) Transformer Babar Ants in My Pants A frog...

Oop! I saw the chicken, but forgot to mention her. I couldn't tell if she was Camilla, Ethel, or Bernice. Maybe I should ask Gon... no, never mind.