For this post…i love you more than Ice Cream – I Really, Really Do…
Btw…IMHO, Kermit was still a bit of an asshole during his Muppet Show tenure…just more passive aggressive & sanctimonious…I’ve noticed this with others who are in and out of rehab. That shit gets old when it’s served to you on a daily basis by family, friends, coworkers & other close associates…but Kermie made it work for his routines splendidly.
The only time I met Kermit was when I was two or three years old in like 1973 when my dad was managing the Mainpoint in Philadelphia. I remember it well despite being a toddler because he was the first talking frog I had ever met & also, I think it stuck in my head because he and Bruce Springsteen got into a really, really heated argument…my dad says it was about Ford versus Chevy. Dad says Kermit started to whack Bruce in the face with his tongue then Bruce took a swing at Kermit…then my dad, the bouncers and their respective peeps had to wrangle them. Arlo Guthrie was there; he took some 110* pics that my mom still has in a photo album somewhere.
I hear lately he’s trying to reopen/reinvent the Elbow Room Bar in Dutch Harbor, Alaska (featured in first few seasons of Deadliest Catch) as sort of a Vanity-Retired-Celebrity-Hobby-Bar – kinda like Sammy Hagar’s bar in Mexico…that would be pretty cool and all if he can pull it off. On a Charlie Rose interview Kermit mentioned being a WWII Pacific Theater buff and went on and on about how Dutch Harbor was the second Pearl Harbor until Charlie deftly redirected him. I looked up what Kermit was rambling on about and it was pretty interesting. I think Kermit might have been drinking during that interview.
Anyway – when I was a kid & young adolescent…when the shows were still current…I would use the names ‘Hotlips’ & ‘Miss Piggy’ interchangeably for the two characters. Anyone else do this?
edit - *110…I refer to the 110 film format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110_film
