The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
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“I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.”
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