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Jon

Everyone needs a helper monkey

About Me

As a former Flaming Idiot, I traveled and worked with my great friends Rob Williams and Kevin Hunt for 20 years performing a three man comedy/juggling/variety show named, you guessed it, The Flaming Idiots. Since retiring the show I have since moved from Austin Texas, my home for 20 years, to the hometown of my lovely wife Stephanie (an amazing chef and chocolate maker), the beautiful, if at times overly cold and stiffly polite Twin Cities. (Minneapolis/St. Paul, for those who just moved to this planet. And hey, welcome, try the shrimp.) I have been to 49 of the 50 United States, most of the Canadian provinces, Mexico, England, and once woke up to find myself in Amsterdam. I come from a family of eight children and was born and raised in the soggy Pacific Northwest. My favorite place in the world is New York City, my favorite pasttime is shooting pool, and my favorite beverage is red wine, or root beer, or the two mixed. My favorite flavor of ice cream is bacon.(The meat, not Kevin.)

My Interests

Billiards (9-Ball), bowling, golf, writing, performing, sleeping, cooking, eating, drinking, breathing, and long walks on the beach talking philosophy with my helper monkey.

Music:

Yes.

Movies:

Fight club, Dead Man, Twelve Monkeys, Mr and Mrs Smith, Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, Lord of the Rings, Kevin Smith Movies, Anything by Trey parker and Matt Stone, Crash, Second Hand Lions, V for Vendetta, The First Two Star Wars movies, most Johnny Depp Movies, Pulp Fiction, Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...........

Television:

Heroes, Lost, Dexter, Entourage, Weeds, World's Deadliest Catch, The Office, The Simpsons, Anything on National Geographic, The Daily Show, House, Bones.

My Blog

Terror Level: Fluffy

TERROR LEVEL: FLUFFY   Words of advice to circus people. I’ve taken to carrying a banana cream pie in the passenger seat just in case some clown tries to carjack me. Oh, it works too, trus...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:19:00 PST

The great evolutionary conspiracy

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men   When was the last time you saw a gerbil in the wild? No, seriously, have you ever? How about a guinea pig, or a hamster? When was the last time you heard som...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:21:00 PST