While it’s always hard to hear Muppets with the “wrong” voices, these muppet videos that came onto YouTube this week were quite enjoyable.  (Thank goodness Dave Goelz still does Gonzo.)

Written earlier today:

At this moment, there is an eyeliner pencil in my breast pocket, next to a red pen I’m using to do a script consultation. My fingers are sticky with spirit gum from just having applied a fake beard. Life is good.

Here’s a weird tip: We were attempting to create a costume for a character who looks approximately Hasidic. The hat I picked up for him is labeled “gangster;” it’s like a flat fedora. The beard, which we only trimmed a little, was called “Lumberjack.” So there you have it. Lumberjack plus Gangster = Jewish. Now we know.

If you haven’t seen it yet, get to www.drhorrible.com TODAY, because it goes away on Sunday.  (Come back and read the rest of this post only after you’ve watched.)

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So I spent the weekend at a good friend’s wedding in Yosemite. After a few hours of tutoring on Thursday, I made the drive up, leaving Los Angeles at precisely the wrong time. Not that there’s a right time to get stuck behind an accident in L.A., but the beginning of a summer holiday weekend is definitely not it.

It was fantastic to see old friends, although all the baby-having that they’re doing is tough to deal with. On some level, I have to liken it to a horror movie in which your friends get replaced by pod people. They’re almost exactly the same as the person you remember, and yet now they are capable only of bleary communication about the temperment of their little poopmaker.

Don’t get me wrong; I love kids. Babies, on the other hand, are useless.

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Seen the new Weezer video? Pretty clever, from a producer’s point of view. These have to be the most affordable “celebrities” available.