Hype yourself blatantly here.

[Woofnah]

Indoor busking

This past weekend while everyone else was at MotionFest, I had the Grand Opening of the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. No pay, but they made me 2 lovely signs, which are much better than my crappy ol' sign, that I get to keep. It was indoor busking.

I found out I was on the King5 News out of Seattle Saturday night. Okay 5 pm and 6:30 news for 1.5 seconds of juggling 3 knives. But still, it was COOL.

Yesterday I was there 5 hours and raked in $200. If I had a place to do that every day, I'd quit my day job! It was so wonderful! And I even had a crappy spot because they asked me to allow the drumming circle to use my good spot and move. I did (cuz I'm nice) and the drumming circle STILL had no audience and got nothing and I so kicked butt!!!

THEN I got an e-mail from someone taking pictures and he sent me the 4 of me that he took. They were blurry, but he wanted to share them with me.

I am so in love with juggling and jugglers that I'm going to explode. I don't understand why anyone would ever want to do anything BUT perform and entertain.

[Steven Ragatz]

I would like to invite everyone to come see "Birdhouse Factory", a new circus-theater show with the S.F. Circus Center and the Pickle Family Circus. We open December 15 and run through Jan 3 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Among the acts is juggling, German wheel, aerial hoop, vertical pole as well as some totally AMAZING Chinese acrobats. Most of the performers are former Cirque du Soleil acts, so the show's standards are very high indeed!

For more info, visit:

http://www.birdhousefactoryshow.com (official website)
http://www.circuscenter.org/performa...orm_sched.html (circus school show schedule)

If you plan on seeing the show, contact me because I would love to meet folk from the forum after the performance!

Steven Ragatz

[le pire]

cruising...

just got back from performing on Royal Caribbean...

10 standing ovations in a 1200 seat theater:

[jester]

so out of 1200 people, only 10 of them stood up?

[martin ewen]

Gosh,

Gosh, who woke up on the wrong side of the jingley jangley bauble-laden jester crib this faire morn.
(please don't interpret this as a conversational gambit I'm merely trying to obscure the extremely low grade of insult you have dragged us all down to)
Start slowly, take baby steps in my insult improvement program.
I suggest 'I know you are but what am I?'
as your next attempt.
Don't aim too high.
merry everything.

[Lynneski]

I'm rubber and you're glue ...

My dad's bigger than your dad.

Whew. Got those outta the way too.

[jester]

Martin.

It was a JOKE and meant with good spirit and will! Le Pire and I insult each other frequently, but Ettiene isn't actually a morose, cynically self important amateur philosopher.

A play on the words "10 standing ovations." We all know that I knew exactly what he meant and I playfully pretend to misunderstand. It was light hearted, brief (look that up somtime) and in no way undermined his little peice of self hype.

Frankly it is a good bit of audience reaction and a 1200 seater theatre isn't too small either (I'm sure you've played in smaller.)

I like the photo in which he looks both on top of the world and totally in control of his adoring public.

I'm pleased for Ettiene. Le Pire and I have a history of pulling each others legs and unlike some people on this board, Le Pire can more than stand his ground with some respectable humour.

Want a war of words with me then battle me directly. I enjoy it more than you do, but don't insult ettiene, he can fight his own battles.

I don't do nasty and moronic sarcasm, and I love to say this, but while my humour may not be as wordy or as pretty as yours, it works on much deeper levels than you would think.

The problem is context and where are we coming from. Le Pire often gets me on his back because he is young, strong, talented and up to it. Sometimes we sting each other, but we both agree that it is fun. I insult Le Pire because I respect him. And I like it when he insults me.

When you insult me I just feel a bad vibe, no wit, someone who has succombed to sarcasm. I don't say that to piss you off, I say that with regret because you are better than that really.

When Le Pire insults me I feel the inexhaustable enthusiasm and passion of somebody who really will make a difference in the world, the real world, not just us old farts on Pnet.

Now sincerely Martin, have a merry christmas and think about what is really important. I have pissed you off in a trivial way on a message board, I have challenged your views, and I am not at all sorry.

[martin ewen]

You missed your calling.

The whole jester thing simply doesn't sit well.
You spend 4 times as many words (sometimes repeating yourself) to explain an insipid inane, throwaway line that most 10 year olds would find beneith them on the playground smartarse scale.
You the retarded 10 year old, addled from pointless bridgejumping no doubt, presume the world at large to be 8 as you kindly condecend to tell us what and whatnot is a JOKE.
Your skill as I see it is not wearing a 300 year old hat with small bells attached to warn the public of your approaching pointlessness but rather a well bundled tourettes afflicted nonentity at some drizzle soaked british public bus-stop.
And I am in fact a proffessional philosopher all be it a rather quiet one,you also cannot presume to enjoy anying more or less than anyone else, its one delusion among your many.
Insulting you is a minor pleasure, I've had dandruff more intimidating. The simple fact is, your chosen proffession aside, you are tragically unfunny.
I admire your persistance in the same way I'd admire the vocally blurting victim at the bus-stops ability to feed themselves and remember where they sheltered.
Now knock yourself out, try and get under my skin with jabs at the kiddies. Don't expect too much in reply as quite frankly I can feel a swelling indifference beginning to get the better of me.
merry everything.

(spelt quiet wrong)

[jester]

A lot of words for the indifferent methinks?

I used to wonder what Rumple did to uspet you and now I realise. Nothing. You are just a sad twat who is easily upset.

[jester]

?

[martin ewen]

[martin ewen]

Dyslexia too?

"what Rumple did to uspet you"

[jester]

See. You really have lost it. You've become a member of the grammar police....

[martin ewen]

You can run but you can't ihed

.......apoligies to all, won't dilute the topic anymore.

[jester]

Re: You missed your calling.

Originally posted by martin ewen
And I am in fact a proffessional philosopher all be it a rather quiet one,
(spelt quiet wrong)

Well thanks for the freebies. They remind me of those flexi discs that used to come on the front of music magazines, a recording made by a band that would never sell or get on the album and thus nobody but the truly converted would listen to them..