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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I mean, here’s an actual photo documenting the posters I had hanging up in my room as a kid (and I’m stil proud of the varying sizes jigsaw puzzle I sorted to make the wall coverage complete).

Photo of me from the late 1980s in my childhood bedroom, playing Nintendo in a room covered from floor to ceiling in comic book posters.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere

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It ends w/ Belafonte consoling Fozzie & a performance of "Turn The World Around". The message, & its resonance, remains undiminished... “Do you know who I am Do I know who you are See we one another clearly Do we know who we are” Belafonte would later perform this song at Jim Henson’s funeral.

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I want to illustrate the emotional range of THE MUPPET SHOW w/ a pair of bits from the same 3rd season episode, featuring guest Harry Belafonte - one of the absolute high water marks of the show. The first bit is a comic sketch built around a performance of “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)”...

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You probably won’t want to look too close at the face of the Popeye holding Popeye creator E.C. Segar. You probably shouldn’t. So, just don’t. Don’t do it. Don’t.

Photo of a man dressed as Popeye holding Popeye creator E.C. Segar

Close up of the cursed face of the man dressed as Popeye, showing the horrific prosthetic makeup he's wearing in order to look like the character

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It definitely feels a bit multiversal to see Rowlf pop up in the number songs in SESAME STREET's first season, and look at Brian Henson count those quarters...

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From SESAME STREET's first season, here's a less common Jim Henson & Frank Oz character combo - Ernie & Cookie Monster, baking a cake...

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1941 is the IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD of the 1970s. I have many thoughts on Steven Spielberg’s epically bombastic, overstuffed kitchen sink comedy - as anyone who’s asked me about it will attest. It’s an exquisite failure, deeply flawed, but w/ beautiful cinematography & a glorious score.

Image of John Belushi as Wild Bill Kelso in 1941

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I mean, here’s an actual photo documenting the posters I had hanging up in my room as a kid (and I’m stil proud of the varying sizes jigsaw puzzle I sorted to make the wall coverage complete).

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You probably won’t want to look too close at the face of the Popeye holding Popeye creator E.C. Segar. You probably shouldn’t. So, just don’t. Don’t do it. Don’t.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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My brain is forever on shuffle through an ever-increasing amount of pop culture ephemera, and yet somehow this pops up more often than one would think considering the sheer amount of mental fragments on offer...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The marketing campaign for DIGGER is quite remarkable, as every new ad I see for DIGGER makes me even less interested in seeing DIGGER.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t think we heap nearly enough scorn on the enablers who platform awful people with interviews that contain zero follow-up questions or pushback to the most godawful nonsense spewed by the most monstrous buffoons a broken society can spawn.

Image of The Mouth Of Sauron from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LESS HOPING MORE HAPPENING, @stevelieberart.bsky.social @mattfraction.bsky.social (And folks - GET THOSE SIGNED & SKETCHED COPIES)

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 90th birthday to Jim Henson. This ongoing thread celebrates him in the best way I can muster - By celebrating his art and its craft, spirit, and legacy…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The marketing campaign for DIGGER is quite remarkable, as every new ad I see for DIGGER makes me even less interested in seeing DIGGER.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 90th birthday to Jim Henson. This ongoing thread celebrates him in the best way I can muster - By celebrating his art and its craft, spirit, and legacy…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This theme song fails in so many different ways that the combined awfulness is hilarious… And it’s made even more awkward as it’s spun out of a show with one of the most iconic theme songs ever…

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We Got This With Mark and Hal: The Podcast @wegotthispodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week: Our SIX HUNDREDTH EPISODE drops and we settle one of the most volatile debates of our time...

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's a moon out tonight...

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Yep it's definitely review copy day!

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Shout-out to @chriskempshall.bsky.social - I can’t wait to dive into this…

Photo of STAR WARS: STAR PILOTS - A HISTORY OF SPACE COMBAT by Dr. Chris Kempshall, with a Wedge Antilles action figure posed beside it

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There's a moon out tonight...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can’t tell you just how excited I am that the guiding ethos for the 21st century is “Let’s reinvent this, but worse.”

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I love that this goofball figure of a goofball Spider-Man villain exists, because I remember being mesmerized by this comic cover as a kid…

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Nearly every art form now celebrated as “high” art was once derided for being “popular” or “low”. Art is art. The Lucas Musuem is a collection of art. Anyone writing 2000 words shitting on it for celebrating “popular” art wallows in a sad, angry bile bubble.

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Speaking of Batman - Decades after first seeing this Klaus Janson cover featured in house ads (And being both fascinated & a bit frightened - I was a kid!), I finally ran across it at a comic shop recently & had to pick it up, as it seemed like an old friend I’d never actually met…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Happy Batman Day…

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This Harry Chapin tune is another one that rolls around in my head more and more...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think about this Paul Simon tune often, increasingly so as of late...

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Ugh. I can only imagine who he would consider a group of “AI experts”. And side note: He really missed a trick by not calling his miserable podcast “GABBIN’ NEWSOME”.

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This Harry Chapin tune is another one that rolls around in my head more and more...

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