Jon's Java - The Mad Puppeteer

 

Happy Birthday. Enjoy some music...  

I was thinking earlier today about where we all were six years ago. The lockdown was in effect. I remember doing curbside pick up at Jo-Ann...

Sam Keith, sweet dreams - job well done. "The Maxx" is still one of my all time favorite comics, and Sam is one of my favorite art...

Dear fellow puppetheads and Muppetheads... I'm seeing some posts pop up with folks being negative towards new works featuring the Muppet...

2010-2025  

  This is Rich.  We're raising a toast to what would be a nite of a good buzz and a lot of laughs. Two years ago over the summer Elmwood...

 It was 1994.  Summer. My brother had been dead since early fall '93...  I was living through Hell. Or so my 19 year old heart believed ...

  May 13, 1994 was a Friday nite. I went to the movie theater by myself to see a flick I had been waiting for on opening nite. I was there m...

 Today was a day that I didn't expect to go so well. Today was a day I laughed so hard I started to wheeze, more than once. I even cried...

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm a fan. Of films, of music, of comics, of puppets, of arts... And of coffee... And ...

1971-1993 Not a day passes that I don't think about you. Miss you every day. Grateful for the 18 years I got to hang with you.   

   21 years ago, this week I moved back to Connecticut from a year and a half in Brandon, Florida. Every year as summer ends, I think about ...

 Took my dad to see this flick today.  We've seen them all together since I was 6 years old. Full of fun, good action, and heart. Even g...

  Been a great couple months... Been filming and prepping with the Elmwood gang and just living and loving and learning. June 1st.  It's...

Last Sunday I was going through boxes of things that I haven't opened in years.  Years. And I found this picture of my brother in a litt...

 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...

Ten years...  So much has happened. So much has changed. I think about you often my friend. And happy birthday.