User:JD11PC

I grew up as a kid watching Sesame Street, and I eventually came to love the Muppets. I run the website Muppet Hub and host the podcast "Eleven Point Collar," primarily concerns Muppet history and trivia. "Eleven Point Collar" (11PC) is available in iTunes and at www.muppethub.com.

Muppet Hub is a Muppet fansite, and also group of projects and pages around the web created by me that are designed to help bring Muppet fans together, and/or celebrate Jim Henson and the puppetry arts. These include:
 * "Eleven Point Collar" - a podcast focused on everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets with a focus on history, trivia, commentary, and interviews;
 * Muppet Youth - a Facebook group and page for younger/teenage Muppet fans;
 * Mupdates - a YouTube series that recaps the Muppet news from previous months;
 * @PuppetProverbs - a Twitter account with tips and words of wisdom regarding puppetry;
 * Puppet Rants - a series that combines YouTube-style vlogging and ranting with Henson-style puppetry;
 * Any of the various written works appearing on MuppetHub.com, ranging from Muppet video reviews to personality quizzes to an analysis of the 2015 Muppet Madness Tournament to the "Puppet Dream Cast" article series.

Originally established as "Boober's Blog" in 2011, named after Boober Fraggle, it was quickly converted from a blog for me to use for posting complaints about Muppet fan problems to a homepage for the puppetry podcast "Eleven Point Collar" and for celebrating Muppet fandom. (The anniversary of "Eleven Point Collar" is celebrated as Muppet Hub's anniversary, because that is when the website took a form that resembles its current status as a fansite.) In addition to the podcast, I gleaned from the styles of Tough Pigs and The Muppet Mindset to write opinion-based articles, but I have never been focused in covering Muppet news - even in the podcast - because I feel that there is an abundance of news coverage elsewhere. In January of 2014, the website was converted into Muppet Hub, with new pages, new platforms, and a focus on the production of puppetry videos. Since this time, Muppet Hub has co-presented the Muppet Madness Tournament with "The MuppetCast," covered the 2014 Beyond the Sock puppetry workshop, and had the pleasure of interviewing important figures in the Muppet community.