It's Not Easy Being a Green Junkie

NIN's Hurt, as performed by Sad Kermit.

(Probably NSFW: language, Heroin Junkie Kermie, general wrongness)

The AccordionGuy blogged this before I did. That doesn't make it right.

Kermit the Frog is beloved by millions. Not just liked. Beloved. How could any star, amphibious or not, handle that kind of pressure?

Sure, it's easy when you start out. Do a little kids show, get noticed, go on a few talk shows, pretty soon you get on a bigger kids show, you're the king of children's TV. Then you get a variety show. You're the star. You're on top of the world baby! But do you think this is easy? 5 years of tantrum throwing co-stars, Hollywood has beens, the constant pressure of a live show, and everyone wants you to be that funny, cheerful muppet they expect you to be. Sure, there's love affairs, movies, and all the trappings of fame, but is it really enough? Enough to compensate for that empty feeling inside?

No one talks about the dark years, after Jim died. About losing your voice. Lesser muppets told all, but not you. No one knows what it's like. To be the sad frog. to be the bad frog. Behind white eyes.

Spiders on Drugs

(video from Collegehumor.com)

Spiders on Drugs

Late in the day, but I'm still trying to post every weekday. Keeping with my slacker theme this week, this is what happens when you put spiders on drugs.

This is a parody (created by First Church of Christ, Filmmaker), but experiments like this really happened. Someone actually got sizable grants to get arachnids all doped up and shi^H^H^H stuff.

As for the source of the parody, for any non-Canadians in the audience (at this point probably nobody, but I dare to dream) or anyone young enough to have missed them, this is based on Hinterland Who's Who, a series of wildlife related PSA's for the Canadian Wildlife Service that were produced by the NFB and which aired on the CBC and most other Canadian networks at one time or another starting in the 1960's. What is interestng about this stuff from a web perspective is that when the CWS set out to update these spots for a new audience, they released the orginal footage to the web for non-comercial remixing. This spawned a number of parodies, some of which are posted on their site, and is a fine and remarkably early (2003, I think) example of a content producer actually 'getting' the web.

Thanks to Myya for the link.