I am grateful for being able to go to the doctor and get an antibiotic. I don’t know what the problem was but the antibiotic has helped considerably. Oddly enough the swab showed nothing, but I most certainly was not well! Oh well, it is behind me and hopefully I will soon be all the way up for making a practice video. My main voice, Goody Goodfellow, is almost himself again. Been struggling with Luther but Calvin seems to be settling in OK. Kleetus is glad to be whining away again and I am still not sure what he is … Continue reading
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! We begin a full year of daily blog posts, and hopefully lots about puppets and ventriloquism. Goody’s creator is THE DUMMY DOCTOR, Alan Semok. I looked at a huge number of figure makers online, starting with the amazing list of makers found on Cybervent, a website that I have found useful. I read the comments, reviews, and studied the websites of the dummy builders. Nothing really clicked with me until I ran across the comedy, DUMMY, staring Adrien Brody. I liked the dummy in the movie, and scanned the credits to find out who made it. Along … Continue reading
Last year around October I found myself signing up for five free days of lessons by Tom Crowl titled, Learn-Ventriloquism. By the fifth day I was hooked and did something I never do–I dug out my credit card and PAID for an online course. Lessons were incremental, each one a manageable bite, and sent out one a day. Every morning I logged into my next lesson. Between lessons I practiced. I read everything I could get my hands on about ventriloquism and ventriloquists. I purchased every documentary I could find (I’M NO DUMMY is fun and informative). I haunted … Continue reading
THE best time of my life–EVER! I attended my first Vent Haven International Ventriloquist ConVENTion. I was privileged to meet several famous ventriloquists. Here is one of the photos of me with a famous ventriloquist–Darci Lynne Farmer this kid is fabulously good and won America’s Got Talent. She performed at the conVENTion and was on a panel with several other ventriloquists. I also got to meet Jimmy Nelson. My toy ventriloquist figure was a Danny O’Day. I was totally in awe! We had a huge group picture, and that link broke so I am unsure how I can show it … Continue reading