Grant Nishanian

Big Bird Costume Creator Dies

2008-06-26T20:14:41Z

How Sad...

http://www.wnbc.com/entertainment/16715389/detail.html

Big Bird Costume Creator Dies
Love Also Helped Design Cookie Monster, Oscar Costumes
POSTED: 8:39 am EDT June 26, 2008
UPDATED: 8:59 am EDT June 26, 2008

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The man who built the yellow-feathered costume worn by Big Bird on "Sesame Street" has died.
Kermit Love was 91 when he died Saturday from congestive heart failure.
Love was designing costumes for some of ballet's most prominent choreographers when his work caught the eye of Muppets founder Jim Henson in the late 1960s.

Henson designed the original sketches of Big Bird and Love, then built the 8-foot-tall costume.
Love also helped design costumes for Mr. Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster. He even appeared on "Sesame Street" as Willy, the neighborhood's resident hot dog vendor.
Love started his career making puppets for a theater during the Great Depression and then started designing costumes for Orson Welles' Mercury Theater.

This sucks

2008-05-24T15:44:18Z

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OMG He Posted

2008-05-15T03:31:49Z

So I really enjoyed calling cablevision to tell them how much they suck. Yes, I am the proud owner of FIOS TV!!! (cue the cheering). It's amazing quality vs. cablevisions crappy service. What really broke the last straw was that Cablevision sent me a letter saying that on 5/27/2008 I would have to upgrade to IO for an additional $11 plus on top of the $70 I was paying already plus rent all these set top boxes + an additional fee for remotes or I wouldn't be able to recieve TLC, A&E, E!, Sci-Fi Channel, TruTV, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, C-SPAN2, and QVC (TLC, TruTV are some of my most watched channels).

Looking into Fios TV (which just came to Town of Mamaroneck) amongst Dish and DirecTV, but Fios turned out to be much cheaper than Cablevisions equivalent. A few clicks later FIOS TV was on it's way. Installation was easy as I already have had FIOS Internet + Phone since 2005. Took about an hour as I did a lot of the leg work myself before the install date, which was running a single run of RG6 from the ONT to my existing Coax Distribution block and another run of RG6 from the demarc to the rack for the MOCA. Verizon also upgraded my router to the new Actiontec, etc (which has a very advanced configuration which surprisingly isn't too locked down.) I did need STB's, but Verizon gave me a package for 3 boxes which was basically equal to one of Cablevisions. I also got two Digital Adaptors, which is basically a STB but without the guide. Verizon also includes the remotes with the STB's as where Cablevision doesn't.

Mr. Dolan, you got what you deserve. Go shove it. I'm basically hoping that now I don't get bombarded with harassing phone calls now from Cablevision begging me to come back.

grantnet10 @ 2006-12-04T01:25:00

2006-12-04T05:25:31Z

Happy Birthday to me! Finally 25...

grantnet10 @ 2006-10-17T16:51:00

2006-10-17T20:51:18Z

Interesting article about the EMS side of the Penn State vs. Michigan game.

http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=4283

grantnet10 @ 2006-09-05T00:14:00

2006-09-05T04:15:31Z

Yea!!! Power is back!

grantnet10 @ 2006-07-15T23:53:00

2006-07-16T03:55:34Z

Short Update...

After months of taking classes and exactly a month after my test I recieved my EMT card. I got an 84 on the test!! So now I am officially an Emergency Medical Technician!

Going to NYC tomorrow. That should be fun.

grantnet10 @ 2006-06-28T17:01:00

2006-06-28T21:03:05Z

Quick update...

I want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the Village of Mamaroneck Fire Parade at 7pm. Anyone who is going to go, let me know so I'll meet up with you afterwords.

grantnet10 @ 2006-04-07T19:11:00

2006-04-07T23:12:05Z

Anyone want to go to the NY Auto Show coming up???

YEA!!!

2006-03-03T04:16:08Z

I got a 80% on my first EMT test!!! YEA!!!!

Geico

2006-02-27T17:08:21Z

I just saved $178 a year by switching my auto insurance to Geico... Takes effect March 25, 2006 at 12:01am.

grantnet10 @ 2006-02-26T22:33:00

2006-02-27T03:34:08Z

I was never really a big fan of video games but this is one of the funniest things I've seen.

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1664252/

This is for Breimann because he is the only one silly enough to do it

2006-02-14T15:42:08Z

http://whitecastle.com/ValentinesDay/

“Enjoy hostess seating, candlelit dining, and your own server. Reservations required.”

grantnet10 @ 2006-02-13T10:30:00

2006-02-13T15:53:35Z

I am so tired today. I should have taken the day off after my long weekend. On Friday I decided to ride VAC since they needed a driver till a Crew 1 member showed up. He showed up at 12 so I went home. I knew I had fire class on Saturday. So I wake my ass up at 7:30am and make it to the Fire Training Center around 8:30... Stand around with the rest of the class outside waiting for them to get the Burn House setup. It's a building with propane fire simulators. Half hour later I'm in the house on the nozzle putting out the fake fire. Lunch at Wendys (mmmm...) around 2pm. After lunch, 2 car fires later were packing up Engine 7 (the training center rig) and I hear the Town of Mamaroneck tones go out. Then they annouunce the address. It's my house! I was like Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? Odor of smoke in the basement. I was like what could that be... Turns out to be a booster pump on the boiler blew out. So the service comapany replaces it like 1 hour before the snow started. Thank god for that, otherwise no heat. After that debacle, I find myself at VAC. I do the overnight as the driver for the 2nd ambulance. Sunday morning breakfast at VAC (always good...) and lunch, then I leave around 4. Go home and find my father shoveling. I told him I would take care of it. He really thinks he helped but he made a mess that I didn't need to deal with. He took the snow blower and kinda skimmed the top layer of snow but really didn't get down to the asphalt so he left a nice compressed layer. Which I had to scrape up. If he let me do it, all I would have to deal with is a nice fluffy powder. Laundry and bed. Wake up on Monday. Drive myself and my father to the train. Slip in the parking lot. My father didn't even notice. Stand on the platform waiting for the train. Waited about a half hour before one finally came. Deal with the nasty people on the subway. What people have to realized is that were all in the same boat together. Now I'm at work. I have VAC again tonight... I'm tired. Thats all there is to say.

Dress like a Target employee

2006-02-06T19:51:19Z

Now when I shop at Target I can look like an employee. If you wear anything red you get questioned anyway (even though you obviously don't work there)

http://www.incentranet.com/main/app/target/na/costore/target/?pg=home

grantnet10 @ 2006-01-23T00:08:00

2006-01-23T05:09:11Z

GRANT
G	is for	Geeky
R	is for	Relaxing
A	is for	Alluring
N	is for	Neglected
T	is for	Talented

What Does Your Name Mean?

grantnet10 @ 2006-01-05T19:51:00

2006-01-06T00:51:11Z

Today's livejournal is sponsored by the number 3 and the letter L. It's been one of those days...

grantnet10 @ 2005-12-29T09:29:00

2005-12-29T14:37:21Z

Back a few weeks ago I took my friend Amy to my companies christmas party. I was originally going to go alone, but it seemed like such a shame to not take anyone. Heck it was at the Ritz Carlton Downtown. So I invited Amy. It was a fun time (except Amy's car took over 1 1/2 hours to be brought from the valet.) So for the picture evidence. Drum roll please...

Copied from Alli...

2005-12-15T04:04:28Z

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Tuesday I bought porn for trigger_kill (10 points). In November I committed genocide... Sorry about that, iwnt2queedabean (-5000 points). Last Saturday I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). Last Wednesday I farted in an elevator (-6 points). In February I helped bopoe across the street (6 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-4989 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!

Sincerely,
grantnet10

My Birthday Photo

2005-12-06T03:13:43Z

This is the photo at Edo's... Thanks for coming to my party for those who did.

grantnet10 @ 2005-12-05T00:06:00

2005-12-05T05:05:21Z

Thanks to everyone who came to my birthday party!!! It was awesome!

Weekend Friends and Family Discounts

2005-12-02T15:30:07Z

http://ww2.footlocker.com/friendsandfamily/footlocker.html
30% off Footlocker (until 12/4)

http://www.macys.com/dyn_img/site_ads/mw_friendsandfamily.pdf
15% off Macys Home (until 12/5)
20% off Macys Mens, Womens, Kids Apparel and Accessories (until 12/5)
10% off all mattress and area rugs (until 12/5)

http://www.timberland.com/friends/
40% of Timberland Store (until 12/5)

http://echo3.bluehornet.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=da524cadb2973b90157120a0825f9d38
30% off Guess Store (until 12/4)

http://kcpcustomerservice.com/form/kcp/viewhtml/9z1z530ua7ng23c6c0lk7dahekpe6ustig0glbptlp8
25% off Kenneth Cole Store (until 12/5)

http://www.lordandtaylor.com/directmail/epromo_cp.jsp?divAbbr=LT&mEvtId=523&cEvtId=Q9&cst=490628
20% off Lord and Taylor (until 12/4)

http://www.lordandtaylor.com/directmail/epromo_cp.jsp?divAbbr=LT&mEvtId=530&cEvtId=Q5&cst=598853++
15% off Lord and Taylor (until 12/24)

My Birthday

2005-11-30T02:34:32Z

ok, here's the guest list... Comment if I forgot you.

In alphabetical order...

John Breimann
Desiree Gisbert
Allison Hines
Allison Holt
Kate Jenkins
Jack Lambros
Kris Mueller
Sean Nealon
Grant Nishanian
Donald Organ
Melissa Pergola
Alex Rapp
Amy Snyder
Demarcos Vital
Cory

Time has changed to 8pm

Amazon really has everything...

2005-11-29T18:59:04Z

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00028XKKM/002-5821290-8472862?v=glance

Photo in the cut.

grantnet10 @ 2005-11-28T13:56:00

2005-11-28T18:59:02Z

I need final #'s on who's coming to my Birthday party. My last post has all the info. Finals #'s need to be in by Wednesday so I can call Edo's.