creature

desperate for something to hold onto

[artdetails]

Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[kitkatpancakestack]

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

[disc80s]

x

[lovesickhypochondriac]

behind the scenes photos from brokeback mountain

[cybelusreverie]

id die for the internet archive over my country

[nocoffeeplease]

[nyantara]

pretty sure the context makes this better. irish band kneecap have been in the news for their full throated support of palestine and ensuing censure by uk politicians. one of their members is being charged with supporting terrorism for allegedly flying a hezbollah flag. glastonbury festival refused to boot them from the lineup.

the bbc announced premptively that they would not be broadcast live at glastonbury, and recordings would be made available later. presumably expecting kneecap to chant something political. unfortunately for the bbc they did end up broadcasting bob vylan leading the crowd in the death to the idf chant.

[noonwalkdiary]

the public library is for lovers

[frogosaurus]

Happy Pride month to all the gay folks who should still be with us but were lost to AIDS. So many of them had (and continue to have) huge impacts on the world, despite their lives being tragically cut short.

Since this is primarily a Muppet blog, I wanted to take a moment to talk about Richard Hunt.

Richard Hunt was a gay man and a fantastic puppeteer who started working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, and company in 1970 at age eighteen and joined the cast of Sesame Street two years later. While working with the Muppets, he originated the characters of Scooter, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums, and Wayne, but also became the primary performer of Janice and is responsible for the flower child personality she is now known for. He was also known to be a fantastic singer.

But maybe most importantly, he made so many people happy. According the book "Of Muppets and Men" by Christopher Finch, Hunt "seems to get more unadulterated pleasure from performing than anyone else in the organization. When he is not working on camera, he is apt to have Scooter or Beaker or Janice -- anyone -- on his arm for the purpose of entertaining... He makes the crew laugh, jokes with the guest star, clowns for the shop personnel. He is one of the chief reasons for the loose atmosphere that exists around Studio D despite the pressure and the slow pace that are endemic to television production."

Hunt died at age 41 due to AIDS complications. The Muppet Workshop made a panel for the NAMES Project AIDS quilt in his honor. The Richard Hunt Spirit Award is presented every year at the Sesame Street wrap party to the cast member that best honors Hunt's generosity and dedication on set.

Rest in peace Richard. Thank you for the laughs and the smiles, and happy Pride 💛

[wildemoth]

Gender is a performance and it’s time to play the music it’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppets show tonight

[teratomarty]

[athelind]

Guy & Brad Gilchrist, 1984

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yuko Shimizu aka 清水裕子 aka Shimizu Yuko (Japanese, b. 1963, Tokyo, Japan, based NY, USA) - MORE Magazine May 2011, Digital Art

[cosmicanger]

Laurence Fishburne (Playboy, 1994)

[digitalhippocampus]

david hockney with his dachshunds stanley and boodgie

[mads-schubert]

part 20 in my weekly poster series for 2025

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Quiet joys w/ Marge

[two-bees-poetry]

so soft it hurts

[moveslikekeithrichards]

it is so important to our well-being to get stoked over animals. like regular shit like squirrels & little parking lot birds & shit. or whatevers normal in your area. there are no boring animals. any animal sighting can be special if you love it and then every time you go outside or look out the window something sooo awesome will happen (see an incredible beast)