{"id":7291,"date":"2009-06-12T07:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:17:17","slug":"empsfm-and-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/12\/empsfm-and-muppets\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPSFM and Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4075,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.empsfm.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130116183732\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.empsfm.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 01:53:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 16:42:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 16:42:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4076,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.empsfm.org\\\/exhibitions\\\/index.asp?articleID=1336&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100615191206\\\/http:\\\/\\\/empsfm.org\\\/exhibitions\\\/index.asp?articleID=1336&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 01:53:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 16:42:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 16:42:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4077,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3617012248\\\/in\\\/datetaken&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3617012248\\\/in\\\/datetaken&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4078,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/archives\\\/date-taken\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/10&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/archives\\\/date-taken\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/10&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4079,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/itunes.apple.com\\\/WebObjects\\\/MZStore.woa\\\/wa\\\/viewAlbum?i=291666062&amp;id=291666023&amp;s=143441&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/itunes.apple.com\\\/WebObjects\\\/MZStore.woa\\\/wa\\\/viewAlbum?i=291666062&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Prairie and I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empsfm.org\/\" title=\"EMPSFM\">EMPSFM<\/a> on Wednesday, using some free passes <em>very<\/em> kindly given to me back when I lost my job. I&#8217;d been to the EMP once before, just after I moved down to Seattle, but hadn&#8217;t ever gotten around to visiting the SFM side since it opened.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I went, sometime around 2001\/2002 or so, when it was just the EMP, I wasn&#8217;t <em>entirely<\/em> impressed, and came away thinking that it was neat, but more expensive than I felt it was really worth. No such worries anymore, though: I think the tickets have dropped in price a bit (I remember them being around $20 back then), and with the addition of the SFM and any special exhibits &#8212; especially the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empsfm.org\/exhibitions\/index.asp?articleID=1336\" title=\"EMPSFM: Jim Henson's Magical World\">Jim Henson&#8217;s Magical World<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s <em>totally<\/em> worth visiting.<\/p>\n<p>Finally getting to see the Science Fiction Museum was a lot of fun. Back when it was being created, I was excited enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/08\/sci-fi-museum-to-open-in-two-months\/\" title=\"eclecticism: Sci-Fi museum to open in two months\">blog about it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/08\/first-look-inside-the-new-sci-fi-museum\/\" title=\"eclecticism: First look inside the new Sci-Fi museum\">twice<\/a>, but for one reason or another, I&#8217;d never checked it out. I&#8217;m glad I finally did, though &#8212; while not huge, they&#8217;ve packed a <em>lot<\/em> of neat stuff into that section of the museum, from old costumes and props to lots of first editions of classic literary sci-fi. In fact, one of the things I was impressed by the most was how much attention was paid to the written word &#8212; it&#8217;s not as &#8220;flashy&#8221; as film clips or movie props, but it&#8217;s <em>such<\/em> an important part that I was quite happy to see that it was celebrated, rather than neglected. They even had the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/3617012248\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Flickr: The Baroque Cycle Manuscript\"><em>handwritten<\/em> manuscript to Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle<\/a>, which blew me away. It&#8217;s huge!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a few pictures from the trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/archives\/date-taken\/2009\/06\/10\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi: Photos taken on June 10th\">on Flickr<\/a>, and below is a clip of me trying my hand at being a puppeteer for the Mudgarden Experience.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/Ku15lV7as_Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/Ku15lV7as_Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I think my puppet looks the best &#8212; not only did I know the lyrics, but I have <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=291666062&amp;id=291666023&amp;s=143441\" title=\"iTMS: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Rainbow Connection\">that version of &#8220;Rainbow Connection&#8221;<\/a> in my collection, so I was able to keep &#8220;Kurt&#8221; pretty synced up with the music. Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my puppet looks the best &#8212; not only did I know the lyrics, but I have that version of &#8216;Rainbow Connection&#8217; in my collection, so I was able to keep &#8216;Kurt&#8217; pretty synced up with the music. Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,193,234],"class_list":["post-7291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-prairie","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}