Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow writes:

Last week in Toronto, I happened upon a delightful busker hidden inside a puppet theater that advertised “Improv Song on Demand.” As Alice and I stood before it, a puppet emerged and offered us a song. Alice asked for a song about Star Trek and got this gem.”

As Corey goes on to note in his original post, the “delightful busker” inside the puppet theatre is Alexander Winfield, whose improv puppetry near the corner of Queen and Spadina in downtown Toronto is becoming something of a minor institution.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Alexander a couple of times – he worked on the recent Bear Town demo I directed (see previous post) – and he’s one of the most brilliantly funny puppeteers I’ve ever met. You can see more of his work on YouTube.