Friday, January 16, 2009


Once ... Oh .... about 20 years ago I went to the Suncoast Puppet Festival that was being hosted by the University of South Florida. The big proformer that year was Jimmy Nelson with Danny O'Day and Farfel. I had dragged my then girl friend Lou Shoemaker and caught up with Kim Rivers. I worked with Kim (who's mother had a local TV show where she did puppets and ventriloquism.) on VooDoo and EPCOT's Prominade Players. She was such a talent and hopefully still has her hand in it.

We all sat together waiting for the trio to make ... and I mean make the scene. During his presentation Jimmy called out to the audience to give him a sentence to say. I yelled out, "MANY MEN MAKE MONEY!" Lou looked embarassed.Kim looked at me with that where did that come from. Jimmy Nelson paused, blinked and said , "What ?" I repeated my request and he laughed, and said, "Some one must of bought one our old records." (I got my record with a Danny vent doll that I named Andy.) He then ran Danny through his paces. A magic momment.

Me ... I'm still working on it. "Nany nen nake noney ... Nanny nen nake noney ... Nanny nen ....

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