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Lacey Spring Fun Fair 2011 [vlog]
May 21, 2011This year’s Lacey Spring Fun Fair entry by the Red Nose Brigade included: Jusby, Sprout, Bean Sprout, Lilly, Buzzy, Stormy & Bubble~Trouble.
Sprout made the front page of the Olympian!
Jack Lobb, 2, gives a kiss to his aunt, Jenni Hatfield, who is dressed as Sprouts the Clown, during the annual Lacey Spring Fun Fair on the Saint Martin’s University campus on Saturday, May 21, 2011. The event continues on Sunday. (Tony Overman/Staff Photographer)
The alley planned to recreate our award-winning parade entry, “Road Apple Pie or Pie a la Road”, but we kept tweaking it…
- We eliminated the fake apples we were dropping
- We eliminated the hobby horses we were riding
- We added horse ears and tails to our costumes
- We eliminated the wheelbarrow
- We added a riding lawnmower that towed a wagon
- We forgot the large fake pie
- We substituted a real pie
Consequently, of course, a dude got pied!
For some reason, we had trouble getting together for a group shot. This is Sprout, Jusby & Bubble~Trouble. Not Pictured: Stormy, Buzzy, Lilly, & Bean Sprout!
This is a girl I know from my day job. She admitted that she had been afraid of clowns because she was traumatized by a clown chasing her with a balloon… at the Lacey Spring Fun Fair! However, it was before I joined the RNB, so I know it wasn’t me!
Coincidentally, I knew her mother from my time as an AmeriCorps*VISTA (2001-200).
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National Train Day & Free Comics [vlog]
May 5, 2011I 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.”
When is MY train going to come in??
Then I took Orion out for Free Comic Book Day!
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Thinking Outside the box pt 3
May 29, 2010Saturday
Thai, no pie
at Mekong
Stormy, Trish, Gaston, Mark – Rosebud -
The discussions about Redesigning Health care continued…
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Pie-ing Patch while Designing a Society
May 28, 2010We arrived at the Fremont Studios for Patch Adam’s birthday party celebration at about 9 PM and found him strolling outside for a break of some sort. I sprung into action, and he graciously stood still for it while I waived the usual speechifying and simply presented the pie-in-the-face.
Inside, we rocked out until past midnight!
Miss Kate accepted her pie-in-the-face, and reciprocated in kind.
The evening concluded with a twofer and I broke the 300 pied faces mark!
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Between Two Clown Worlds
May 16, 2010
Red Nose Brigade at the Lacey Spring Fun Fair, 11:50 AM Saturday
12:20 PM, Bubble Trouble (Tardy!), Jusby & Ronald McDonald (on Segway)
7:30 PM, I don’t know why I wore the cape, but it was the perfect accessory to compliment to the belly dancer.
8 PM, Cheshire does some balloon play
10 PM, Who’s that kid on the runaway wheelchair?! I pied her two weeks ago!
Miss Kate’s Sacred Clown Troupe: Cheshire, Light Bear, Miss Kate & Jusby
I got a free CD out of the deal. Check ‘em out at http://revelme.wordpress.com/
Orion got to be in a spiral dance or “pulling dance” as he called it during the closing song of Revel Me!’s set.
We left just as DJ Sweet Elite got started and missed the Erev Rav’s set entirely. Ridiculous.
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Advice from Mama Clown – Pack Small, Play Big
January 9, 2010At NWFC, I really enjoyed Marcella “Mama Clown” Murad’s Birthday Party demo. I even brought Orion. She came originally from Columbia, South America, so imagine her quotes with an espanish accent.
She handed out stickers, and one child said that they already had a sticker.
Mama clown replied, “My sticker is bigger than yours! Neeny neeny nee nee! Oh, you’re gonna be a teenager soon and slam doors. Whoever gives me a hard time, I’m gonna kiss them on the lips!” [Later she advised against this line for the male clowns] “Where is the mother of this child?!”
Then she started the party in earnest with an interactive march to a song with the refrain “The Show is About to Begin!” [What better cue could you want?] She had the kids marching, clapping, snapping and shouting HURRAY.
She did the disappearing handkerchief (with thumb tip) and called out the birthday girl when it disappeared. She yelled, “Abby, give it back!” Then she needed to wave her magic wand and sprinkle magic dust to get it back. Her wand was a groan stick (makes the sound like a cow can). She also later used a glowing thumb tip to represent the magic dust. [Quick put one of those on my wish list!] She told the kids, “Concentrate! That doesn’t mean turn into orange juice!”
She did a bit with a toy frog, telling him, “If you don’t behave you are going on time-out forever!” She followed that with a cell phone gag, supposedly talking to Superman, eventually pulling out some giant underwear. She did the “Family Photos” gag.
At the end she taught a dance in Spanish.
Her main message was:
Pack Small, and Play Big
She can do several variations of each gag featuring silks, sponges, or visuals so that she can keep doing parties for the same family or for the guests who have recently seen a show.
Her secondary message was:
Choose bits that fit your character and weave them together.
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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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Pie in the face video (abridged)
October 25, 2009Here’s the short version of the Pie-in-the-face routine from NWFest ’09.
Courtesy David Raffin and blissfulremembrances.com
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NWFC movie (feat. Jusby)
October 21, 2009http://ia311004.us.archive.org/3/items/ClownConvention2009/ClownCon.mov
21 minutes of Northwest Festival of Clowns featuring all three of the events in which I competed… and some other clowns too. Courtesy David Raffin & Blissful Remembrances.
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More NW Fest pics
October 19, 2009
Sprout with the giant Road Apple Pie, Marci Sunshine and Little Buzzy (barely visible: Stormy & Bug)
Jusby “We parade indoors if it’s raining… which it is.”
Big foam camera… It had a working flash and his arm fit through slots in the lens!
Lotta & Bubble~Trouble with John E. Spear, the Shoe Salesman of www.spearshoes.com
$345, $405, $375 (No wonder Francois begged to buy my shoes)
Cute Twin Clown Babies! (Photo by Pamela Woods)
Twins with a Junior Joey, Angel Contreras looks on. (photo by Pamela Woods)
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The 20th Northwest Festival of Clowns – Day 3
October 17, 2009I spent a leisurely morning with Orion. I made pancakes. Then we went to the festival for Mama Clown’s demo birthday party.
Why isn’t Orion blowing good-bye kisses to Mama Clown?
Why the heck did Orion stand DIRECTLY BEHIND Mama Clown for the final group photo op?! I dunno, but I still love him, and her show was awesome.
Francois came from Belgium to attend a couple of clown conventions. He started with a group of four. They have recently just formed the first clown alley in Belgium and Holland. For several days he has begged to buy my new size 20 shoes. Today I sold them to him. He wanted to go to the store and buy more. I figured that I could easily find it again in Tacoma. I got lost on the way. We drove for what seemed like hours. By the time we got there, the store had closed. In the end, he gave me a rare Belgian clown button and big praise in front of the assembled clowns. I also threw in my giant penny.
Christie “Ruffles”, Kimmi “Bubble~Trouble”, and I at the Awards Banquet. I got to have breakfast with Christie yesterday morning. Actually, I crashed the buffet (it was supposed to be for guests of the hotel), and I luckily discovered that our waiter was Singer/ Songwriter and KAOS DJ, Scott Askew.
Meanwhile, in another part of the dining room…
It’s Albert “Clem” Alter doing a spoon trick with Angels on his left and right (Contreras and Ocasio).
CLaroL the CLown from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, after ringing Wally (with plunger on head).
Angel Contreras doing a caricature.
The finished piece. I’d love to have him do some work for me. Check out http://www.art4clowns.com
Then they gave out the awards.
The Red Nose Brigade Group Paradability Entry “Road Apples” took a Silver and People’s choice award.
My solo skit “New Wand” took a Bronze Award.
My group skit with Bubble~Trouble “Pie in the face” got an Accommodation certificate. So they apparently thought we were disabled and thanked us for participating.
And the moral of the story? People prefer steaming piles of horse manure.
Oh, yeah, Francois’ clown partner, Marc won the only Gold Medal for a solo skit. His was about flies.
Horse manure and Flies. Something smells funny and it’s not my pies.
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The 20th Northwest Festival of Clowns – Day 2
October 17, 2009
Found a good spot in the group photo, right in front, blocking the word CLOWNS!
The photog was kind enough to snap a few on my camera as well.
How many clowns IS that?
Red Nose Brigade gets a group shot
We got entertainment between competitors, even.
We’re waiting through solo paradability.
Angel Ocasio and Albert Alter
This young unicyclist pedaled through three times.
My solo skit “New Wand”
Bug & Sprout do “In Synch” swimming gag.
Bubble~Trouble wants to learn how I do a pie-in-the-face.
So we pied “Ruffles”. She didn’t believe I was really going to do it, though she had signed the waiver and recognized it as a legal contract.
Then we pied 4 others… then…
Bubble~Trouble finally gets pied.
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The 20th Northwest Festival of Clowns – Day 1
October 15, 2009
Silly Billy’s finale Confetti Cannon!
The Birthday Cake!
The Big Foot Clown Alley Welcome
Pinky!
Then I had to clean up the mess out in the driveway. Next time I could use the grass in back they said.
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Another Lakefair shot
August 12, 2009
photo courtesy Alexis Sarah, note the one piece hazmat suit courtesy Grampa Dave
I don’t suppose I actually told the story of the Lakefair Grand Twilight Parade of ’09, did I?
The alley has grown disenchanted with the parade. It’s too long for some of the more senior clowns. There aren’t enough to justify having the truck. Don’t get me started on the custom trailer! [It's for sale, BTW!]
At the last minute I decided to do some culture-jamming and just show up with a wagon full of pies. I parked by the Alpine Experience and hauled the wagon all the way up Capital Blvd toward the beginning of the parade.
Then I hopped on the wagon and coasted down hill offering pie-in-the-face to the crowd.
This was the kind of event during which people are accustomed to BUYING THINGS. So they asked, “How much?” I replied “By Donation… pies don’t grow on trees”.
During the 3rd or 4th face a representative of Lakefair pulled up in his golf cart and asked what I was doing.
“I’m a clown. I’m doing pie-in-the-faces.”
“Are you authorized by Lakefair to be here?”
“Um, well… yeah, of course. I’m a professional clown. Here’s my card.”
“No, are you authorized to be here?”
“… yeah. sure.”
“Show me.”
“Ohhh. You mean the thing? The badge. Well, no.”
“Next year you need to register with Lakefair for insurance purposes.”
“Okay.”
I saw him again toward the end of the route, and we went through the same thing. I’d have to charge a lot more if I was planning on doing it legit.
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