Jon's Java - The Mad Puppeteer

 

 

Jules Bass. Legend and an influence... Sweet dreams sir, Job well done. https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/10/rudolph-frosty-producer-...

 For a kid my age Scooby-Doo was probably my first introduction into what horror is. Sure, it was goofy and not very scary, but we were serv...

 I could write a ten-thousand-word essay on the impact the films of Kevin Smith have had on me since 1994. But I won't.  Who wants to re...

 Thank you Wibo.   Thank you for the random phone calls the past couple years to make sure I was OK.  Thank you for laughing so hard when we...

 

 

 

Summer 2000 I got tickets to see the Chili Peppers.  The Foo Fighters were the opening act.  I cannot lie and say I was a huge fan at the ti...

 

 This one hurts. My brother turned me on to him and his insane music.  "Bat Out of Hell 2" was the last CD my brother bought befor...

  Today would have been Jim Henson's 85th birthday. Anyone who knows me knows this is a holiday as far as I'm concerned. ;) I rememb...

  Support the MDA mda.org In 1994 local television station WFSB was still airing the annual MDA Labor Day Telethon. Late that summer they ...

I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day with a good frame of referenc...

 "You're kinda like the Ralph Bakshi of puppetry" It was said to me as an insult.  Because the person who said it is so stuck ...

 

Caroll Spinney passed away a week ago at 85.   An amazing life, and amazing man. So many people were messaging me about it, and shari...