Enya, Ani, Joan, Gilda & Tina… Wrapped into one! She’s a Pagan, a Fairy, a Librarian, and a recycling folk singer. [she keeps the heavy metal separated from the pop plastic]
Oly CUUPS and the Olympia Green Theater present
Celia Farran, in a benefit performance for the South Sound Pagan Pride Day Celebration
Celia is a cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, & Tina Fey. She dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly & the sacred. Celia has opened for notable authors: Marianne Williamson, Neal Donald Walsche, & Dr. Masaru Emoto. She has provided live music for Off Broadway’s “Rum & Vodka”, authored “Symbol” (Anthem to the Pentacle Quest) and her “Irish Tales” has been nominated Best Storytelling CD by Just Plain Folks (The Grassroots of Grammies). Celia was born and raised in Wisconsin, currently resides in Santa Fe, NM & is touring with her 8th recording “Carry Me Home”.
Just returned from JFK HS in Burien where I delivered a special Happy Fiftieth Birthday Telegram to a teacher on behalf of his brothers. They also wanted him to know “Bears Suck, Packers Rule“.
The “Mr. Birthday” Look AKA Jusby the Plain Faced Fool
Is that the Pope on the wall behind me?! We’re in a Catholic High School!
This is a long way from my gig in MTV’s High School Stories!
The first pied face of the night… Mushroom Head Guy
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From then on the whipped cream flowed like rain.. over men, women, and children..
Ruby… Cora… Nolan… Chelsea Baker… It’s Thea from Green Sweep!
Honey the Clown got promoted to chief pier for the night!
Ryan… Alison
Honey has a firm but gentle hand with the pies. She also sings while she pies.
Daphne… Mia… Puck Franta pied!… Meta Hogan pied!… Vivika… Zophia… Greg… Gray… Jason
Miss Kate assists the Festival Programmer, Ivan Peycheff, with the cape
Good thing we finally got the marquee in the shot!
Tina… Mike the Marine… Adam
27 signed up but only 26 went through with it.
We appreciated the support and generosity we were shown by the Olympia Film Festival. It was an honor to be included in the street carnivale with the Artesian Rumble Arkestra, Illuminated Procession and fortune telling robot.
Thanks to Paul Thomas of GCI ad agency for these fabulous pix!
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Jusby, Paul, Stephi, and Heather
Thanks to Stephi Eubanks of Oodalally productions for asking him to come over!
Thanks to Mike of Eastside Big Tom’s for putting together a Haunted Hamburger Drive-Thru for Scary Jusby and his Flaming Pies! … and accepting a (non-flaming) pie-in-the-face!
Mike signs
Mike waits patiently… and so does devilman.
Done!
and Well Done! Next!
Definitely you, kid! After what you said to the mayor…
Daniel gets his second pie (of the night!)… I was at his 8th birthday back in… June of 2008!
Charlie “The Noise Guy” Williams (of Isaaquah) capped off the Summer Children’s Entertainment Series on Tuesday night. Capped it right off. bang-bang-bang. ke-BaaaNGGG!
Okay, kids. You can only make these sounds OUTSIDE, okay? Have a fun car ride home, parents.
Blasting the kiddy mosh pit with a Super Soaker to illustrate the effects of Hurricane Charlie.
And a third volley because they screamed “More, more, you fool! We must be subdued by your hydraulic arsenal or we will rush the stage!”
What a pretty face! It almost seems a shame to cover it in pie. Almost.
We arranged to meet on Thursday morning before Charlie’s next Olympia show (at the downtown library). We had a blast comparing stories and riffing on each others’ material. We’ had a delicious breakfast at the New Moon Cafe (Vampire themed vegan breakfasts – j/k). He ordered French Toast. I ordered the Monte Cristo… which is a triple-decker French toast club sandwich. I brought a Buy Local coupon. He brought a credit card. Breakfast was on him!
Charlie’s modeling the new Magnum salon cape that replaced the backwards lab coat for pieing. He’s always wanted a pie-in-the-face. It was fate that brought us together. Fate and FACEBOOK.
Now it’s time for his Jusby Desert.
Desert was on him too!
No skimping on the pie! If you look closely you’ll see Terry Zander, former piee, peering at us from inside. Also seen in the New Moon that morning, former client, Debe Edden.
Ooops. Somebody’s gonna have to clean that up! Out came Terry Zander to the rescue with several buckets of water and an industrial push broom. The catch? I had to listen to his jokes.
Speaking of water… an hour later Charlie’s back to squirting the children for the conclusion of Take a Splash, Read!
What IS that racket?
It’s your new light saber on the first day of Jedi School. Good thing Master Yoda had that tip about the AA batteries.
“My crops need watering on Farmville! I’m wasting time on Facebook!”
Shortly before we departed Memphis, I volunteered to visit with staff and residents of Grama Mary’s care facility. I brought pies and we did an abbreviated session of Laughter Yoga.
Here’s Theo, who’s celebrating a year at Ashton Place… and moving from custodial to ACTIVITIES!
“How are you doing, Theo?”
“I’m BLESSED!”
Meet Juanita. She’s celebrating a year of Holy Deadlock… uh, Wedlock.
There’s Grama Mary at her first Jusby Pieing Event!
The main improvement to Doc Jusby’s costume is the addition of my COAI patch on the scrubs over the spot that said “Hospital Property”! Thanks Aunt Elaine for making quick work with the sewing machine. My hand stitching would have taken forever.
I still have to add:
Thespian patch with Comedy & Tragedy Masks
Rusty Cock Ridge Patch
Eastside Big Tom Patch
I have since upgraded to a salon cape for the piees, I can make changes to the lab coat as well – patches, embroidery, piping, etc. That means an appointment with a seamstress!
Undecided about a costume for my premiere/finale as a Lincoln Elementary employee, I looked for some inspiration on the Camp Thunderbird info sheet. It said: “Water is Off Limits” and that resonated with the global angst about the BP-Gulf of Mexico Disaster, so I dressed in hip waders and brought my blue buckets.
On the way up 101 we heard on KAOS that the annual Evergreen Mud Run was scheduled to begin and precisely that moment, so I pulled over and made like a clown going for a stroll on the beach… perplexed, intrigued and astonished to find nekkid ppl running across the mud flats.
“There’s some dirty hippies takin’ a hippy mud bath before they gotta gradjamacate today!”
“Is that a Gooey Duck or are you just happy to see me?”
Then we drove to Camp Thunderbird. I made myself useful at the “Circus, Circus” activity station. I had been led to believe that I was expected, that students would learn to walk on stilts, make their own juggling balls, and practice other skills like slack rope walking. There were stilts there. They had decided against the balloon+sand bag juggling ball construction portion of the circus for ecological+logistical reasons. I’d brung my rubber squirting fish in the bucket and gave tutorials with those. I also assisted with stilt fitting and walking and encouraged one girl to add hula hooping to her stilt walking. She could do it for almost half a minute!
A couple more pics by Trish>
I joined the talent show too late to get a hula hoop, so I faked it.
When they provided one I continued to fake it!
Photo by Julie Montgomery of me during Juggling practice with Eloise.
I got a call during lunch on Friday from Jon, of AmericanSingingTelegrams.com asking if I was available Saturday. The client was an active duty serviceman serving in Iraq who wanted to wish his mom a happy mother’s day.
The last time Jon called he had been looking for a guy in a gorilla suit, and this time he was asking after Elvis.
“I’ve got a train conductor… secret agent… doctor… uh… “ Why does he keep asking for these redonkulous things!?
Well, it’s because these are what John Q. Public from Anytown, USA wants in a singing telegram, and these are the costumes listed and pictured on their website. >Note the position of ‘CLOWN’
OUR COSTUMES (availabilty varies per region):
.: GORILLA
.: PINK GORILLA
.: CHICKEN
.: BROADWAY TUX/TOP HAT
.: HIT MAN/SOPRANOS
.: GRIM REAPER/FUNERAL MOURNER
.: ELVIS
.: MARILYN
.: SINATRA
.: AUSTIN POWERS
.: FRENCH MAID
.: NAUGHTY NURSE
.: BAG LADY
.: DOCTOR
.: SHOWGIRL
.: MALE BALLERINA .. (fun drag, tutuguy)
.: DANCING HEART … (valentines, anniversary, love)
.: POLICEMAN
.: COWBOY/GIRL .: CLOWN
.: BELLY DANCER
.: BIKINIGRAM
We settled on the Tuxedo and Top Hat. I told him that it was a white tux with tails and had primary color buttons: a clown tux, you know. As it got closer I started to wonder whether I was even supposed to be a clown. Then I knew that I couldn’t wear a clown tux, act like a clown, and sing like a clown without wearing a clown nose.
It would dilute my brand to do anything but show up as Jusby… and give the mom her telegram on Jusby stationary… and sing Jusby’s signature song.
So that’s what I did… wearing a tux jacket with shorts… gave her a HUGE bouquet in a vase, a balloon hat, and four helium balloons. Great gig!
The mom was naturally moved to tears by my customized serenade. The dad puddled up too. Or was it allergies?
On a tip from some pro-clowns, I started thinking about pitching my services to the Temple Beth Hatfiloh for their Purim Carnival. Then an old-school friend, Ozi, asked me if I was going to do more pies at Arts Walk. I told him that I didn’t make any money doing Arts Walk, but what I really wanted was to do pie-in-the-face at Purim and could he talk to the Rabbi. He said, “He’s my dad.”
I know that. That’s why I brought it up.
One thing led to another [#FCBK!], and the next thing I knew I had pied the Rabbi and received a check for “Ritual Expenses”.
Parked beside ‘Pin the Crown on Esther’
Starting off with a Mini. Loved his outfit! A loved one removed his yarmulke in time.
The Rabbi’s Son! His second time! The reason I got the gig!
Rabbi Goldstein is ready for his pie-in-the-face.
Um… he’s got to be praying here, right?
Then quiet reflection and ablutions.
Tibor has some nefarious intentions behind me! Ain’t happening, mensch!
Accept the inevitable.
Like So!
He’s glimpsed the ineffable!
Orion begged for his chance to have another pie-in-the-face.
Uh-Oh! The first kid seems insistent that I get pied too. I usually brush this off right at the beginning when ppl don’t seem to understand the premise, but today I realized what the act had been missing all along. Maybe it will always end this way…
All ready for it… I think Ozi should do the honors.
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