You can tell I’m home, because I have waaaay too much time to post things… Anyway, I was reading an interview with Joel Hodgson, which is what I do when I’m depressed about my job prospects, because I’m so fascinated with how he’s managed to reinvent himself a million times… and in this particular interview, he mentions he was influenced by the TV show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. The family legend, if I remember it correctly, is that my great-grandfather, Jules “Tony” Herbuveaux, was one of the people who helped get this show on the air, and I’d been under the impression it was a kids’ show. However, Joel’s reckoning of the show doesn’t jive with what I know — he says the puppets on the show helped introduce international films, and that the show was on CBS, while I know Tony worked for NBC. Anyone have an explanation?
No, wait, I think I do… the specific show he’s speaking about appears to be a spin-off of the main K F and O show. Sorry. Anyway, it’s an interesting interview with Joel (though pretty old, I’d bet), as is this one.
In other news, blogging is what I do to fill my brain with protective fluff which keeps me from realizing how much my life sucks. Further updates on my inexorable slide into the tar pits of the kind of blogging everyone else does as events warrant.
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