Rugberto Bambino was your average 80’s latch key kid growing up in the NY metro area. His working Mom left Rugberto with plenty of toys to play with and a cart blanche membership to blockbuster video, where he would pedal his bike to a few times a week, stopping at his local comic shop along the way to get his superhero fix. Rugberto loved comics, fantasy and Sci-fi so much, he vowed to one day become the next Stan Lee or Steven Spielberg. Rugberto began his goal by surrounding himself with people who were creative and against the norm, which immediately made him an outcast in his jock oriented high school. He decided that his only recourse was to one day make it to film school and be finally done with all of the jock shit.

Unfortunately, for Rugberto, tragedy would derail this plan in his senior year in high school.  Unbeknownst to Rugberto, he was cursed from birth with a condition known as Feltyism, which would begin to manifest itself in his late teens. While in utero, Rugberto’s mother was on a trip to Romania and was hexed by an old hag fortuneteller. The curse was bestowed when Rugberto’s mother surreptitiously touched the hag’s puppet collection without her permission during a reading.

On his 17th Birthday, Rugberto awoke a few inches shorter, and the next day a few inches more. In the following year his skin, muscle and bone would begin to soften, his teeth would fall out, a giant slackhole would form in his back, and his face became frozen in a permanent expression of stupidity. Rugberto was now Rugboy the Felty puppet, forever abnormal, forever an outcast.

Unwilling to let his condition stop him from pursuing his creative goals, Rugboy mailed himself to various artsy hangouts in NYC and eventually landed into the arms of Imran Javed who hosted the college radio show “Buffalos on a Roll” along with Jose Dennis. Rugboy began making his presence known and in short time became the 3rd wheel on the program, adding inane comments, and awful singing.

After the radio show ended Rugboy fell into obscurity. Living off government assistance coupled with years of mooching off friends and couch surfing, Rugboy became a wandering vagabond. These years of hard living formed Rugboy’s acerbic wit, flawed wisdom and no bullshit attitude.