by frog
I just found this on US website, Red Green and Blue:
Mr. Kermit Frog revealed on Tuesday to the Associated Press that he has been lying to the American public since his initial appearance in Sesame Street on November 10, 1969.
“I tried keeping it a secret because of the industry,” says Kermit. “The last thing viewers wanted was a hippie puppet telling their kids to stick it to the man. The environment was on the bottom of the political to-do list. Vietnam was raging and we needed to save face–it’s not easy to pilot a show with so many political hurdles in your way. We needed to promote consumerism and nationalism so we wouldn’t be cancelled. It was bad enough that we were urging diversity and acceptance.
“I have decided to keep it a secret until now, and I apologize for a life of lies. I am publicly recognizing that it is easy to be green; we have so many green lifestyle options open to us that there is no way I can keep it a secret anymore. Target sells organic sheets for Pete’s sake!
Although this is his first widespread announcement of his beliefs, Kermit has let others in on his true feelings for a while. For instance, he gave the commencement speech at Southampton College in 1996, emphasizing the importance of conservation. However, he feels like he could have started earlier,
“I should have just stuck to my instincts and rejected what society wanted. I could have used by fame back then to make a difference. I hereby resign from my TV persona–”Kermit the Frog”—and introduce you to my true self—”the amphibian formerly known as Kermit the Frog.” I want to be represented by this symbol:
Kermit is scheduled to tour with Bono in 2009, and will even appear on Bill Maher in the upcoming weeks. He is currently working on converting his multi-million dollar Malibu pad from electric to solar energy.
All this leads us to wonder: what is “The Rainbow Connection” really about?
Published in Society & Culture by frog on Tue, September 30th, 2008
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on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Here’s an interesting article about a big slum in India
“Unfortunately , Dharavi is depicted as a ‘slum’ that lacks residential infrastructure (roads, housing with individual toilets, public conveniences, etc.). In fact it is not a residential slum, but a unique self-contained township (in the sense of close work-place relationship so eulogized since the days of Patrick Geddes, but which has never been achieved in any of the new towns). Because of all these community-based successes, Dharavi needs to be replicated (albeit with adequate physical infrastructure). Instead, the state government wants to force the relocation of Dharavi’s population into tiny cubby hole apartments in high rise towers so that the vacated land can be commercially exploited by developers through the Dharavi Redevelopment Plan. At a conservative estimate, a development of this magnitude could fetch $460 million for a developer, a profit of at least 900%.”
http://www.planetizen.com/node/35269
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Ah
those were the days. Kermit, Ms Piggy, the old farts, the Finnish Chef, the ‘tell it like it is’, come back JIm, all is remembered with love – reincarnation shoul dhave made you old enough to come forward again by now. Oh, you have! Great. Hi. WHat’s that? Wall Street? OK See you later then Mr. President.
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Why has Kermit based hs logo on the early Christian fish sign? Christian fundamentalists HATE the Greens. Perhaps by giving it legs he hopes to walk them into the 21st century. Then pigs really will fly
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I thought it was a good logo for an amphibian that starts out living in the water and then grows legs.
I think you’d be hard pushed to argue that the early christians who used the fish sign were anything like the fundamentalists we see today.
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jh Says:
September 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
> Because of all these community-based successes, Dharavi needs to be replicated (albeit with adequate physical infrastructure).
Maybe it should be replicated elsewhere, but actually I think the most important thing is to try and introduce those adequate physical services into the existing slum, to help it evolve into something less slum-like while maintaining the effective economic relationships that already exist there. It may not end up any cheaper to do it that way, but it’s more likely to work.
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I think the point is that it functions well except for its lack of infrastructure. Jane Jacobs talks about “slums” in US cities which (in their own way) were efficient and productive societies. The primary aim of the developers is to maximise profit but while a few make money, those who are forced into apartments may loose the benefits of the society that evolved despite the degradation.
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