Linkblogging

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My Leper Pony. Who had My Little Ponies when you were little? I had an entire herd, and was constantly using them to tell epic stories about war and kidnapping and battles and dramatic rescues, which tended to involve way more violence and far less hair-combing than I think the makers intended. I would have loved a Leper Pony.

Five Boroughs Ice Cream. Ha, this is awesome! I wish my neighborhood had a flavor. Actually, these sound really tasty, but I think I'm too lazy to go out to Queens just to buy ice cream.

Texas Senator proposes offering $500 to women who give up their children for adoption. Wow. Selling children. That's totally a good way to make the pro-life supporters look not insane.

You know that Hemmingway quote which starts, "the world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places"? I love that quote. I've used it for a title. What I would not want, however, is it on a t-shirt. The internet really does have everything; too bad so much of it is stuff you can't imagine being useful.

Some interesting videos:
Kermit the Frog covers Nine Inch Nail's 'Hurt'. I... I... there are no words to describe this. I recommend you watch only if you enjoy seeing your childhood icons destroyed; it's nearly as bad as the Carebears BDSM story, really.

Tech Support in the Middle Ages. Ha! Very funny, a Monty Python-style sketch.

I was going to go dancing this weekend, but I'd forgotten that I'd accidentally given myself an enormous blister and that it hurts to walk now. Someday, I understand, I may actually grow up enough to refrain from constantly injuring myself, but at the moment at least it makes for amusing stories.

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Okay, th Kermit think kind of disturbed me right when Kermit stated shooting up and then the oral sex later on. I. um. kind of don't want to sleep now. D:

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I know, right! The link I got it from warned me it would be disturbing, but there's nothing that can adequately prepare you for Kermit jacking off.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

...I think I missed that bit, or my mind just refused to click with it. D: D: D: And now I am telling the little voice in my head that's whispering "Come on, how bad could it be?" that no, a rewatch is far beyond my mental capabiities because, oh god, no no no.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm still amazed at whoever did the voice. Because it sounds exactly like Kermit, but I don't think there's any way they could have put together old sound clips to get it to fit so well to the song. Although I sort of wonder about their mental state, to produce such a well-put-together video on such a topic.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

It really did sound like Kermit! I did twitch a little when he said shit because, uh, well, Kermit.

I think they either mustn't have liked the Muppets as kids, which doesn't make sense for the amount of effort they put into this, or they're just incredibly good at distancing themselves from beloved childhood icons. I think this got to me more than the Care Bears BDSM because I tend to put on the Muppets when I'm really sick, so Kermit was a lot more fresh in my mind than Tender Heart. :|

I love how I'm carefully considering this. Ahahaha.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

I haven't really watched either of them in years, so I wasn't too traumatized by the experience. I am amazed by the dedication some people put into such things, though. I mean, that video must be hours and hours of work. I wonder if they'll ever go and watch the Muppets again and feel strange.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Plus, at least one Muppet movie always gets shown at Christmas. Always.

There could be a story in this, you know. XD

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

True! Though actually, I managed to never see the Muppet Christmas Carol until two or three years ago. Clearly I had a deprived childhood. *grins*

Ha! I'm writing all sorts of stories in these comments. But there is! Someone who has suffered a terrible break from the joys of his childhood, but as he tries to mock them, he eventually rediscovers his joy in those innocent pleasures?

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the Christmas Carol and Treasure Island ones for years. -_-;

...I was going more towards someone having a deprived childhood and taking his bitterness out on the characters through twisted methods like the above, only then having dreams where said characters haunt him. Then these dreams turn true, and all hell and havoc breaks loose.

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Clearly we both took something different from this experience. XD

Hey, well, you know what they say about giving two people the same idea and then waiting to see what they come up with. :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I missed out on all the traditional kids' movies, really. I've never seen 'It's A Wonderful Life', either.

...dude, that is awesome! I want to read a story about an evil Kermit haunting someone! I like your idea way better than mine. XD

[ravenbell.livejournal.com]

Alas, poor Kermit. I'm generally pretty immmune to these parodies (Robot Chicken is love), but this was just so stark and disturbing.

And I'm enough of a Muppet nerd to know that Rowlf and Kermit were both voiced and performed by Jim Henson himself, which just makes the oral sex all the more mind-bending.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

...I did not know that. You're right, it makes it all the worse.