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Jusby’s Best of 2009
January 5, 2010January - Honey the Clown is born! She attends (approximately) SEVENTEEN events with me in 2009!
February – Trish and I take “The Art of the Tease” class with Miss Indigo Blue and I start reconnecting with David Raffin upon reading his short story “Twilight of the Clowns”. He creates (approximately) SEVENTEEN works of art featuring me in 2009.
March – I continued classes in anthroposophical based clowning with Dawn of the Simple Fool school (of top secret esoteric clowning). Orion turned 5 with a Glow Golf party.
April – An old friend gets stuck on her way home to Alaska and gets the first mini-pie-in-the-face.
I turn 40 and eat fried crickets. I break the 100 pie mark. Honey and I clown at Procession of the Species.
May – Jusby the Engineer is born! Red Nose Brigade parade season starts. I get called into the ring to be an assistant at Circus Gatti! I get interviewed for Folkshine. Jusby the Agent is born.
June – The Timberland Regional Library now has 2 years of the clown magazine “the New Calliope” thanks to me (and the RNB). I order a whipped cream dispenser from e-bay so I can offer sugar free non-dairy organic pies in the face. Honey and I march in the Pride parade. Mish and I do a party in McCleary.
(c) Steve Bloom, the Olympian
July – Pied Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl in Portland… and her husband, and two of their author friends! I bought a red unicycle. I graduated from the Simple Fool school. We see orca whales in the San Juans. Jusby the Referee is born and I break the 200 pie mark!
(c) Greg Wahl-Stephens
August – I pie zombies! I construct the first two models of the flaming pie. The zombies survive.
August - I get a job at a school I used to work at. (I go into the interview with two letters of recommendation from members of the interview committee). They nominate me to lipsynch to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” at the first assembly. I debut the unicycle. I pie a woman I haven’t seen in 25 years… and her 16 year old daughter. I buy a pair of size 20 shoes for $5.
October -I appear (4 times) in a huge photo collage at Fall Arts Walk in the window of Hot Toddy. Orion and I go to Portland for the Juggling Festival and I practice my unicycle for hours. The alley attends the Northwest Festival of Clowns. I take home three medals and $20 for my shoes (sold to a Belgian clown). I escort people through the Tumwater Halloween House three nights in a row.
November – I meet and pie (of course) Dingo Dizmal and his girlfriend, Olive Rootbeer. I also meet (again) Pamela “Fancie” Woods and her poodle, Olive.
December – I debut my new theme song and the flaming pie at a birthday in Portland. I pie David Raffin’s mother in Lacey. (The pie is not flaming.)
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Happy Birthday, Munch!
December 12, 2009
Edvard Munch (pronounced [mʉŋk], December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUNCH!
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Interstate Clowning
December 6, 2009After reconnecting with Adam McIsaac a year or so ago… I managed to net a long-distance Premium Visit booking for his daughter, Maxine’s birthday.
Here’s the first look at that party and his review (graciously supplied via linkedin).
Orion kept working his way into the act.
Flaming Pie debuts at an actual party!
Surrounded the lady who was scared of clowns at first. [still seems a little guarded, eh?]
“I hired Jusby for my daughter’s fifth birthday party. Certain adults claim to be uncomfortable around clowns, a perception fueled by the entertainment industry, for whom lazy writers will use the casting of the benign and jolly clown into sinister aspect to score cheap suspense points. But clowning is a very old and respected art form; a good clown will work a room according to who is in it. A child’s birthday party, for example, invariably contains adults, and the simpler, child-pleasing act will succeed with adults only insofar as the children are entertained. But this clown is the real deal. Gifted in improvisation, his humor hits on multiple levels: broad comedy for children, delivered with plenty of rapid-fire asides to keep adults laughing, too. He travels loaded for bear, with a bottomless box of props and a long list of extra services, e.g., face-painting, tattooing and so on. We hired him for a two hour premium visit, and probably only made it a third of the way through his total act. He was always busy — and enraptured the children — but with a laid-back aspect; he and his assistant, Honey the Clown, seemed to be more like particularly amusing guests in whiteface rather than a set performance. Many clowns seem to have one thing that they do particularly well with the rest used for filler; Jusby seems to handle every aspect of the clown’s trade well, whatever technical facility he may lack in a given area is filled out by his deep training in theatre, and this is perhaps his strongest point: when he’s working, it seems like the most natural thing in the world to have a clown at your party. - Adam McIsaac, Owner, Pinch a Design Studio
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November 27, 2009
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October 20, 2009
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October 9, 2009
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Shelton Party Pie-ings
October 8, 2009Then “Honey” and I drove to Shelton for a Double Birthday, Double Clown Party.
This was the second big Hispanic community celebration. In fact, the woman who called had been to the other one, which is a great referral and testament to strong community connection.
However, there are some disadvantages. This time, they had no computer access for exchanging the paperwork (contract, invoice, etc) or further social connection (facebook, twitter, linked in). Also I was again paid in cash, large bills, and I carried no small change, so they may have felt awkward tipping an additional five, but I wasn’t willing to work for $15 less than agreed upon, especially since I had subcontracted “Honey” to take photos, prep pies and paint faces.
I collected several PAGES of signatures for the pie-in-the-face, but when the time came around only THREE kids actually came forward. The DJ was so loud that they probably didn’t hear.
No, they heard. And it was translated too
“Pastellaso en la cara”
I later asked our Spanish teacher to help explain about the party. I said, “I meant to ask you about something about Hispanic culture.”
“Jes! Go ahead!”
“I’m a clown and I went to a party in Shelton. Everyone signed up for the pie in the face, but only the kids actually came forward.”
“Okay, I’m not understanding something. You are a cloud?“
“ahem. Jes. I am a cloud. Ha-ha-ha. No. I’m sorry. I… am… a clown. payaso.”
“Oh, piE-Ya-so. Like pa-piE-ya. Oh. Okay. So jew were at a par-tea in Chelton? and…”
“I think the music was too loud. Even the gramas (the abuelas) making faces.”
“Jew know somfing, I was thinking that same thing when I was in Mexico, about my culture. THEY ARE SO LOUD. It is because they are shy and nobody has to talk to each other.”
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October 7, 2009
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Happy Birthday, Cousin Kim!
August 28, 2009Born August 28, 1952 in St. Louis, MO
Now residing in Los Angeles, CA
Visit her at http://kimabeles.com
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August 28, 2009
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August 3, 2009
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Kallie’s 8th B-day
July 11, 2009Because I constantly reminded the students of Ms. Lilly’s 2nd grade class that I was a clown… I was able to book this party months in advance!
Even though Kallie had been pied at Tristen’s party a few months ago, she was still keen on getting pied at her own birthday. In fact, she wanted the whipped cream all through her hair and everywhere… going back for a second pie after every one had theirs. She knew about the red clown nose I sometimes use and had a suitable substitute in the form of Groucho glasses!
Here’s Emily trying the low PVC stilts.
The first appearance of Jusby’s new unicycle!
Exhausted from the ride, Jusby has a drink of water.
Emily pied!
The full head deal!
Isabelle got pied, but said “Not in my hair!”
Roger signed the waier and then walked off, saying “See you.” So we had to stalk him with a pie and convince him to come back.
He decided that Kallie’s mom should enjoy some of the sweetness too!
Isabelle asked for a Sea Serpent. This one had a jewel in its mouth and a touch of glitter.
Tristen wanted Croc-man from Batman. Loved using the mesh for the scales.
And since Kallie wanted a fish, I got to use it again. I was somehow inspired to add the hook with a worm.
All in a day’s work!
(psst! Austin! You’re supposed to smile!)
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