The RHLC!

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Yeah, at our old parish we did midnight Mass. We moved to our current one six years ago (right around this time, as I recall), and there they do the Mass at 7 p.m. But we've got some good friends at one of the local Episcopal churches (including the rector and his family), and sometimes we'd come to their late-night Christmas Eve service and help provide the music. That was kinda fun.

 

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That's cool that you get to help with the music. I sang in the choir for awhile years ago. The music, if done well, can be such an important part of the service.

 

[Skye]

Yay!! I'm so glad the quilt made it there safely, Erin!

And I hope everyone here is having lots and lots of fun with all of their Christmas preparations!

 

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I got to see Muppet Family Christmas last night, the first time in years! It's definitely one of those nearly perfect TV moments.

The most touching part for me was when Kermit talked with Robin about Christmas and the holidays and said, "Life would just pass by in a blur if it weren't for times like this." I had never thought about it before, but he's absolutely right. That's why we need holidays, so we can take a moment to appreciate what we have.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Too true, too true. It'd be nice if I could see MFC in full. In it, you've got the casts from the Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street (and the occasional Muppeteer) all gathered around celebrating. I think that's really nice and heartfelt; too bad we don't see much of that sort of thing on the tube these days.

Around here, prep continues apace. I made some homemade dog biscuits for my much beloved flea-bitten mongrels (though one's a purebred, if ya wanna be technical), we've been wrapping presents behind each other's backs, and we've been teasing each other by announcing that we got thus-and-such a person a Christmas gift that he or she would really hate. For example: I tell Mom that I got her Debby Boone's greatest hits, she retaliates by claiming she got me the best of Lawrence Welk, my brother says he got one of us a poster of some really obnoxious commentator, and we all joke that we got Dad a box set by a heavy metal band (which he dislikes in full). It gets really outrageous as we try to think of really bad gifts, and the source of much evil laughter.

 

[Kiki]

Well, I'm glad your'e organised for Chrissie, Erin! Cause I'm in a bit of a rush this year!!
Yesterday, I *did* get my mum a cd which she has been wanting for a while though. But the old man's rully hard to shop for. He's into film-making books (cause he edits his own movies and stuff) but you can't find much of that here.

Heh, I've never been to mass at midnight. I'm going tomorrow at 7:00 though, cause it's Chrissie Eve. I don't mind it though cause the priest is rully friendly and he brings out these puppets, which needless to say, I love.

What do you guys wanna get for Christmas??

 

[Kiki]

'Kay, I just wanted to wish all my fellow RHLCer's a very merry Christmas!! Heh heh, lucky Aussies, we're a day ahead of you guyses so for us Christmas is... wait for it... TOMORROW!!

Errrr... anywho, hope y'all have a joyful yultide!!

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Just wanted to pop in and wish you guys a merry Christmas and happy holidays in general.

Mom got my brother the first season of SNL - with the Land of Gorch. We've seen the episode with Wisss and his smoking craters. He sounds like a cross between Scooter and Janice.

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone at the RHLC!!! I hope everyone had a good day, despite traffic and/or weather. Mine turned out really well, it's nice to be with family. Plus, my priest gave a very good homily, how God chose to become human in extremely humble circumstances in order to better communicate with us and understand our pain.

Muppet Newsgirl, I've seen the Wisss episode too, he does sound like a male version of Janice!

I finally got to open my copy of Sesame Street Old School (I was saving it for Christmas), it's got so many goodies, I don't know where to begin. I guess I'll share more of that with you later.

I also finally got to read Richard's tribute in the 1992 Puppetry Journal. I'll let you guys know some of what it is said on January 7th. All I can say now is, I actually started tearing up.

And I'll also start sharing the youtube clips I've been keeping under wraps, so talk to you all soon!

 

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I definitely wanted to share this one first, Forgetful Jones has a charming conversation with a young castmember. Hehe, at one point, it sort of looks like the little girl is too busy looking at the puppeteer to notice Forgetful!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MjzF1frG9ms