I just found out that Sprout made the paper on again on National Train Day!
Sprouts the Clown greets Nancy and Fredrick Gomes of Vancouver, B.C., as they arrive for a family visit at the Olympia-Lacey Centennial Station during National Train Day celebration on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Sprouts, played by Jenni Hatfield of Lacey, is a member of the Red Nose Brigade clown troupe. (Tony Overman/Staff Photographer)
Here’s the two of us getting almost all aboard!
There’s one guy who agreed to a pie!
Olympia Centennial Station
6600 Yelm Highway
Lacey, WA 98513Event Date: SATURDAY 5/7/2011
Start Time: 10:00 a.m.
End Time: 2:00 p.m.
Event Description: Celebrate National Train Day with the Centennial Station Committee! Bring the entire family to the ONLY train station in the Amtrak system staffed completely with volunteers and built with donated funds, materials and labor. Refreshments will be provided by Lacey Costco. Door prizes will be given away. Other activities include face painting and clowns, free stuff for the kids, and entertainment by the Dixieland band, DixieKats and the Olympia Bagpipers.”
“My services have undergone expansions, improvements and tweaks. This includes an additional clown retinue,” began the conversation that led to 2011′s Purim Extraordinaire, a few notches above last year’s “Special Visit” which concluded with 10 pied faces. Although I pied a few additional faces this year, I also brought a few additional clowns along, so the energy was significantly higher.
To the Romans it was Cobbler Rasa, the French referred to it as La Tarte Blanche, aboriginal clowns called it Entering the Creamtime, and of course the ancient Qabbalah clowns spoke of soulful and doleful schmaltz by the bowlful
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We are engaging with clowning as our Right Livelihood. We would prefer to provide services to those who can afford the asking rate, but we will not deny the needy and the appreciative.
All reasonable barter and donation exchanges considered.
We are committed to providing safe, appropriate, and profoundly memorable surprises that are customized to your occasion and audience. We want everyone to enjoy a healthy dose of laughter and leave with a deepened sense of their place in the community.
Here’s the artwork for Orion’s Birthday invitation. Those are Lego 1xs (One By’s). The bottom of the seven is a piece that represents scoops of ice cream.
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Lego Brick Cake from Cakeitecture. She also makes Cake Pops (Frosted Doughnut Hole on a Stick) in the form of minifig heads.
Have to order these next time.
Parachute Fun
Birthday Boy gets the first pie in the face!
A Five Clown Party: Ridiculah, Honey, Sage, Jusby & Elliot!
A client recently had me come for a 6 y/o boy’s GI Joe themed birthday party.
I went with the basic black topped with Grampa Del’s garrison cap, accented with a camouflaged belt from a long gone bathrobe. For extra fancy, I added the spats that came from Puck F.
On the way, I noticed someone had pranked a car in the OHS parking lot. I left them my card in case they wanted to get even.
Afterwards, I pied a bonus face back home. AJ had been visiting and took a large pie to the face.
The videos tell about the Magic Kombucha grenade fail.
Got a call one morning from author-educator Steve Eggleston. He had dreamed that he was doing another interview with me and found my number in the nightstand drawer. He called so he could make the dream come real. Technology has advanced enough in two years that he figured he could get the interview sorted in a day instead of several weeks.
He’d iphone it.
So I arranged to meet him after a mercy pieing… went to a party w/o a contract and essentially busked. Total noble cause tho: peace activist.
We met at the parking lot of the Olympian. I wore my Elvis shades. He had six questions typed on the iphone. I chose three and he took some snaps and a little video.
Can a clown be political?
When will we see a wikipedia entry for Jusby?
Is there anyone you would discourage from clowning?
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”.
Before going to Treypac’s party, I consented to an interview with Reid. He’s an Evergreen student doing a documentary on humor. I also referred him to comedian, Jeff Black.
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Another opportunity for the clown’s son to demonstrate proper pie-getting form. Hey, what happened to the money shot?! Pied party goer. The Brand New Jay Leno Sized Pie (Costco 12″ diameter) about to be inaugurated. That’s the one! Held 4 regular tubs of whipped cream. The Birthday Boy!
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!
Sarah Bear had a birthday and housewarming potluck.
I brought pie-in-the-face on behalf of a mysterious benefactor who arrived too late to actually witness it. The battery on the camera flashed low, so I didn’t get pics of all the kids [perhaps a participant will send them].
Here are the adults getting pied>
Imagine her surprise. She had previously been the mysterious benefactor of over a dozen pies-in-the-face to her high school classmates, but oddly never been on the receiving end.
About Time!
“That was so much fun, I loved it! Thank You, everyone loved it, that was awesome!!!” Sarah Bear
Here’s Dabney.
And Kai! I got a lot of personal satisfaction from this one. He and I used to trade witticisms in 2nd grade (Last year).
This fellow celebrated returning to his Mother Country… which happens to be New Zealand. (I think he’s lost)
One of my fans sent in these pics from the Men & Muscles, Pies with Gusto series of Mississippi. This is Gene getting pied by “Old Man Nettles” at a scrap yard during a camp out. Wow!
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!
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"Jusby takes clowning seriously. Can I say that? He is great and gentle with kids, holding their attention and keeping them entertained, and is silly and irreverent, but respectfully so, with adults. He adds life and joy to any party. And if getting a pie in the face is on your list of things to try at least once in your life —c'mon, life is short—, then he's your clown. So go ahead and call him already.”
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“My wife and I have had the joy if seeing Jusby the Clown perform on two separate occasions. Once at a nonprofit organization fundraising event, and he was excellent! His jokes were funny and appropriate; his presence was enjoyed by all. The second event we saw Jusby at was at a birthday party for an adult, but all of the children there were ecstatic to see a clown. He made the birthday girl feel special, yet was attentive to all the children and the other guests as well. He performed for the crowd and made balloon animals for the kids. There was even the classic 'pie in the face' that got the adults and kids even more hysterical with laughter. We highly recommend Jusby for any event where an adorable clown can make all the people happy.”
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