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...SO, was at the brisol ren. faire last weekend visiting my pals phil "variety comedy jedi master" johnson (aka, MOONIE) and the rogues of scotland... anyhow - just kind of sitting around at the end of the day bs-ing w/some peeps i ran into who i used to do california shows with - and, this rennie girl whom i sort of remembered being around at some shows i did comes up, sits down and starts listening to our conversation... the topic was fire eating -- my friend beth had come to the faire w/tom and myself -- and, beth had started fire eating about a year previous... we were discussing various methods and opinions people have about learning how to do mouth/torch tricks... the close the lips or close the teeth on the torch debate (and, personally - i recommend the teeth - as, when you're just starting out you're more likely to burn the f-k out of your lips... and, big blisters are VERY unattractive.) different torch wraps - fuel preferences... boring bs that only people who do this kind of stuff for a living have much of an interest in...
anyhow - at this point beth and i are discussing a female friend i have in cali - who is already a very capable juggler and whip artist - and, how all the guys we know out there have been refusing to coach her in some of the finer points of eating fire (which she wants to put into the show she's been developing for herself) and that when we get to san fran - how we're gonna give her some pointers.
so - random rennie girl says: "oh cool - you TEACH fire eating? could you teach me sometime?"
now - my general disposition has always been that i won't TEACH anyone how to eat fire... that you have to kind of figure it out on your own... that's how i learned... y'know - asked around about different fuels to use - went online and found instructions on how to build poor-man torches... and, went out and just kind of opened my mouth and stuck them in... at that point other fire eaters i knew gave me some coaching on some different stunts i could do -- transfers, suspends... that sort of thing... and i always tell everyone who asks me to teach them to go find out information on their own and when they can sucessfully put a flaming torch into their mouth, then we'll talk... [which the woman in cali has already done... so beth and i are very willing to give her some pointers, etc - as she's demonstrated that she' a very capable performer...]
so - i give my usual schpeile to random rennie girl... and, she's kind of nodding along with what beth and i are saying... then she asks what kind of fuel to use - so we tell her that we both use coleman's camp fuel for our torch stunts (it comes in quantity and it dosen't taste that bad... burns cool and is pretty close to using white gas...) she then looks at us and says:
"so do you think that if i was fire eating with that fuel that it would hurt my baby? i'm only four months along..."
and - that is the STUPIDEST question i've ever heard... will it hurt your baby? F YES! it's POISON... it damages the liver and gives you diarreah if you consume too much... SHEESH.
stoopid, stoopid random rennie girl.
anyhow - at this point beth and i are discussing a female friend i have in cali - who is already a very capable juggler and whip artist - and, how all the guys we know out there have been refusing to coach her in some of the finer points of eating fire (which she wants to put into the show she's been developing for herself) and that when we get to san fran - how we're gonna give her some pointers.
so - random rennie girl says: "oh cool - you TEACH fire eating? could you teach me sometime?"
now - my general disposition has always been that i won't TEACH anyone how to eat fire... that you have to kind of figure it out on your own... that's how i learned... y'know - asked around about different fuels to use - went online and found instructions on how to build poor-man torches... and, went out and just kind of opened my mouth and stuck them in... at that point other fire eaters i knew gave me some coaching on some different stunts i could do -- transfers, suspends... that sort of thing... and i always tell everyone who asks me to teach them to go find out information on their own and when they can sucessfully put a flaming torch into their mouth, then we'll talk... [which the woman in cali has already done... so beth and i are very willing to give her some pointers, etc - as she's demonstrated that she' a very capable performer...]
so - i give my usual schpeile to random rennie girl... and, she's kind of nodding along with what beth and i are saying... then she asks what kind of fuel to use - so we tell her that we both use coleman's camp fuel for our torch stunts (it comes in quantity and it dosen't taste that bad... burns cool and is pretty close to using white gas...) she then looks at us and says:
"so do you think that if i was fire eating with that fuel that it would hurt my baby? i'm only four months along..."
and - that is the STUPIDEST question i've ever heard... will it hurt your baby? F YES! it's POISON... it damages the liver and gives you diarreah if you consume too much... SHEESH.
stoopid, stoopid random rennie girl.
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