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Muppets: The Green Album – Cool Covers of Muppets Music

Possibly the coolest kids’ show ever, The Muppet Show ran on CBS and affiliate stations from 1976 to 1981 and produced a number of much-loved TV specials and movie spin-offs, not to mention a huge range of Muppets licensed products from toys to clothing to personal gear.

One great delight of The Muppet Show was its music — and its high-profile musical guests. Over the years, cultural icons from Alice Cooper to Joan Baez to Johnny Cash to Liberace sang with Jim Henson‘s wide-mouthed, floppy-armed puppets…
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Mason-Dixon Knitting Book Chicks Sing Country, Too

Mason-Dixon Knitting Book Chicks Sing Country, Too

Give a listen to Kay and Ann of Mason-Dixon Knitting, as they perform on the Nashville Bandwagon Show with a side-splitting-funny country song: “Pardon Me (I Didn’t Knit that For You).”

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Greater Love Hath No Fan

Greater Love Hath No Fan

Crafter whateverjames loves Star Wars. Loooooves it. He’s got the Star Wars requisite tattooes, sure — but we’re talking, like, name-your-kid-after-a-movie-character level of fandom. Yet, so great and earth-shaking is his love for his fiancee — James actually sold off most of his Star Wars action figures to buy her an engagement ring. That be [...]

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Wookie of Your Dreams

Wookie of Your Dreams

Look! It’s a heart-hefting Chewbacca, Bringer of the LOVE!

This handcrafted polymer tribute to the Wookie of your dreams is available as a magnet or a pin, and nicely timed for Valentine’s Day.

And much like true love itself…
flexible, but fragile.

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Cash for Your Broken Gadgets

Cash for Your Broken Gadgets

I’ve got something like a Museum of Home Computing up in the back bedroom, and still haven’t found a solution. What do you do with an old 386 Acer, anyway? And that monitor that’s got a weird green glow. Oh, and the dot-matrix printer… In these parts, there’s no recycling depot for such stuff, and there’s no way I’m dumping them in the local landfill… so I’m still working on that issue. But I did just come across a solution for all those smaller dead electronics that drift in odd corners of our lives. Sell them!

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