i've been feeling the need over the last few months to make sure that this house really had a good store of finger puppets set aside. with many thematic series in mind, i seem to have begun with the punk rockers. nigel, who we see here, came into being over the course of watching scream 2, it's the great pumpkin charlie brown, and the blob, although i alternated making nigel with making stuffed cabbage rolls, and eating them, and french onion soup.
i have not decided, looking at nigel, whether he is british or american. one would think the name would give it away. maybe, maybe not. for sure, the first record nigel ever purchased -- and few know this -- was the village people's cruisin' album. but he followed that up quickly with a bunch of blondie albums, of course, and some siouxie, and lene lovich. then he went through this obsession with general public, which isn't much to sink one's teeth into. then, in his later youth, nigel was known to listen to and purchase kylie minogue and even some of the stock-aitken-waterman factory hits of the late eighties, more or less bringing nigel full circle.
you can rest assured i'm not tired of this yet.