interesting dream...

[firegirl]

i had this bizzare dream/hallucination the other night after a rehersal where i had injested large amounts of 'plain flavored' coleman camp fuel... thought i'd share... as i'm surfing the net and bored anyhow...

SO. for some reason - instead of doing my usual fire eating/escape routine (which i haven't really been doing down here in nola - as the pd frowns on fire eating/blowing in the french quarter... in fact, i got a ticket the first day i was in nola for doing such a thing... but, i digress) i am out in the quarter as a 'crate slug...'

my pitch is on royal st - right in front of the pd station... i am dressed as 'lady justice' -- white robes, blind-fold, scales... the works... a classy crate slug am i. a certian canadian juggler i know & have had a crush on for years is seated on the ground next to my crate - w/clubs at feet - writing in a journal... suddenly i see (yes, i can see through the blind-folds) a parade of 'bible-thumpin' right wing christian extremists' (did anyone else in nola have experiances with these people over mardi-gras?) headed down royal... one of these guys is dressed as christ and dragging a HUGE cross behind him... except - it is mounted onto roller skate wheels...

i notice this and turn to my canadian juggler friend and say 'too bad jesus didn't think of that - would have saved him a lot of sweat...'

at this point - the canadian juggler stands up and pours a bucket of marbles into royal st. -- and, we amusedly watch the 'bible-thumpin' right wing christian extremists' go all 'higgly-piggly' toes up sprawlin' in the middle of the street...

then my writer friend, chicago tom, comes up to us and says - 'you might find god on BOURBON st. tonight - but, satan works the side streets...'

then i woke up.

comments?
~firegirl

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[le pire]

last night I dreamed I was a ham sandwich on the day the world went vegetarian. I sat in the cold dark refrigerator waiting for the light and that gush of warm air... hoping hoping hoping that it would be someone with a little craving for the old ways.

For 40 days and 41 nights I waited. My bread became blue and heavy with spores as my insides went fetid. Once a beautiful and possibly delicious delight, I was now a rotted reminder that all things die.


then I woke up


e t i e n n e

[firegirl]

... ok - call me computer illiterate... but, i cannot figure out how to respond to private messages...

so - in response to the private message sent to me... yep. you sure do know me dr. eric -- in fact i just saw you a couple of days ago at 'big easy magic' right before your show at the red room... which i missed... again... i'm friends w/a certian thom brittian & kevin the uncanny...

not that i'm performing or anything out here - it's kind of been like a very extended vactation for me...

~kate, uh - i mean firegirl... yeah, firegirl's my name...

and, no... i'm not a magician... i just like the bunny icon.

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[Evan Young]

Did you see the fat Jesus who was covered in blood with the thorn crown and everything. It was quite a sight. Brendon got a nice little vidio clip of it and then edited super man music in behind it.

[Todd]

Let me guess,the disgruntled ex boy-friend is Broon?

If it is, disgruntled is a way of life with him.

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[firegirl]

nope ~ not broon... i don't think he ever qualified as a boyfriend... tho' i was a frequent flyer at his margarita & hot tub parties... that's all stopped now - as he's in LOVE... ha.

another juggler bites the dust.

nope #2 - i didn't see the thorn & bloody jesus... tho' i did hear about him... that's pretty funny - superman music, eh?

gotta go sleep now.
~firegirl

[Butterfly Man]

Not that any of you all were alive back then but I first worked "the Quarter" in 1972 with Henry the Fiddler and as a solo juggler in Mardi Gras 1977 (my first street show).
Interestingly enough, back then there were only 3 juggling acts (that worked the streets) in the whole United States ... can you imagine that?

Can anyone guess who they were?

[River]

[quote]Originally posted by Butterfly Man:

Interestingly enough, back then there were only 3 juggling acts (that worked the streets) in the whole United States ... can you imagine that?

Can anyone guess who they were?[/QB]<hr></blockquote>

[River]

Whoops!

Got the quote away, but forgot to add my guesses.

Only 3 juggling acts that worked the streets in 1972:

1. Ray Jason (a definite)

Some guesses: Philip Pettite, Hovey Burgess, the K Brothers, Lorenzo Pickle (and the Pickle Family), Nick Webber (and the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter Ring Circus), Molasses, Rev. Chumley, Avner. (Though none of them were exclusively jugglers, and Hovey was primarily teaching.)

By 1977 there were many more than those listed above.

[Chance]

Okay, I'll play along Robert. Here are my guesses:

-Robert Nelson
-Laura Greene
-Ray Jason

...and, if I am allowed, I'll use Will Soto as a pitch hitter.

How did I do?

[Butterfly Man]

Hmmmm ... I actually was being rather flippant when asking this question but methinks (around '72) there was Ray Jason in SF and Locomotion Circus and the Fantasy Jugglers (Don and Lana Reed) based in Boston ... there were probably others but I don't know of them ... I know Bobby Sandler did Venice in the early 70's but I think he was primarily a stand-up (IMHO)...