Death could be tapping on your shoulder.

[scot]

I don't know if you guys ever thought about this but, what if you die. There are a lot of street performers who have died. It could happen to you. You know, every time you go out on the street, you're putting your life in danger. I guess it's good someone's doing it.... Or maybe not. I guess noone really cares. Except for the people that own fanuel hall and pier 39 and stuff. The ones who are making money off of you. No one says, "We need some lousy street performer to make this empty street a little more actionier." They don't just not say it because 'actionier' isn't a word. Think about it though. Death. Really at least some of you should wear helmets.

[Humanoid Gone Mad]

I think a lot of performers have died on the street some get over it and move on others stay there at that sad lonely place dying again and again and never knowing why or how to move beyond that moment of desperate soul squelching death....

I know I have many times I have died out their and i have watched friends die horrible just horrible.....awefull really.


In fact writing this makes me think of the first time I saw Rumple...awefull realy awefull.

[BFlat]

Hmmm, I wouldn't be so negative. I don't think that all people are going as far as not 'remembering us'. Besides buisiness owners who kind of benefit from us, there are, and I KNOW there are ordinary people who care and remember about performers.

I know so, or else I wouldn't be able to explain stuff like how come this old man sitting on his front balcony, rocking his chair and whom I pass in front of everyday; How come he says "Hello" to me every time and asks me how my day was.

I wouldn't be able to explain how come pure strangers I know only by their faces, take the time to stop and compliment my playing.
How come people at the grocery store are reconising me and smile when they see me.
How come I got a gagn of some sort of groupies following me around on the weekends.
And this kind of stuff doesn't happens to me only, it happens to many street performers. I've heard so many telling me the same kind of stories.

So, when we die, tragically or not and that we don't show up to our usual spot the next day and so on, will there be people who care?
Of course there will. Maybe not all of them, but some will. There is always someone out there to whom we mean something.

[peterpanic]

i want to hear more about this rumple stiltskin. i have heard a few stories- all of them hilarious. the time he showed up at heathrow wearing his costume and showed mr custom man a hatful of monie as proof of solvency...the 18 hr shows ect...
i read in the paper that a pastor set a world record by preaching a 30 hour sermon. i hope he was preaching to the converted. i hate to think some poor bastard came out of the church monday nite all disheveled and dehydrated going- well he made some good points but i dont know...now wheres the toilet? peter pastor

[stickman]

Rumple is brillant! Can't hold a crowd long, but legend all the same. It's not a lack of skill, but something in the jester persona. He definitly broke my record for a walk-by show in Byron Bay (I had done 8 hours or something stupid like that. I was sick and broke at the time). I'll lose endurance records to him any day.

If anyone has contacts in Renfairs/medievil events, or works with one convince him to come, and pay him. His act is perfect for them. Costume's and character is in period.

Rumple is a performer from another time, who will be missed if he ever retires.

Stickman

[Rich Potter]

Where does one find this Rumple guy? Sounds intriguing.

Is he on the U.S. continent, or out there in one of the U.S. territories, like Europe or Australia?

--Rich

[mini mansell]

Rumpole is currently in the Uk, last seen in Edinbugh last weekend