Guy Smiley: Tinker, Taylor, Muppet, Spy

Last night I was preparing my laptop for a talk that I’d be giving to our awesome Friends of the Library group. Among other things, I wanted to change my background to something slightly literary in nature so I started thinking; “Who are my favourite literary characters right now?”. I mean, I’ve got hundreds of favourite characters from books, but who are my current fan obsessions? It came down to two people: Lisbeth Salander aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and George Smiley from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Given that you can see his wallpaper over on the left, you can guess who won. As I looked at that wallpaper and talked online with a friend, I started thinking about Guy Smiley, the Sesame Street Muppet who usually showed up as the quintessential game show host. From George Smiley to Guy Smiley we came up with a parody idea called Tinker, Tailor, Muppet, Spy. I looked at George’s wallpaper and I knew, I absolutely knew, I had to do something similar using Guy Smiley.

And so I did.