With Sorelle Sucere: Kukla, Fran and Ollie...

Yes...

"Bad-ass: Living & Spells" will be published with a deadline of October 31, 2026... AND, --- while you are being MAGICAL >>> This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. --- Walt Whitman

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Kukla, Fran and Ollie...

We’re going back to the earliest days of TV. Before there was the Muppets, there was “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.” Produced in Chicago, the show ran from 1947 through 1957. Fran was Fran Allison, the human on the show. She would interact with a series of puppets, all performed by Burr Tillstrom. While Kukla was just a guy. ("Kukla" is Russian for doll.) And, Ollie was a dragon, Buelah Witch was also one of the characters. The show was one of the first examples of a show created for kids that ended up becoming a favorite of adults. Also, wildly, the entire thing was improvised. Like, all the time.