Circus Party 2

June 27, 2009

Actually, the first one was more of a Cirque/ Caberet/ Salon, and this one was more of a Carnival/ Midway/ Sideshow…

but I was so happy to get a 2 hour Premium Visit booked that I called Honey the Clown to be my assistant and photographer.

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My first face!  He got the full length spiel.  We had a water fight toward the end of the party.  Him with a water pistol vs. me with squishy-fishes!

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Cindy seemed a bit overwhelmed.

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Birthday girl watches on while Makenzie takes a pie.

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Hi, Jack!

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Kylie and…

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Chloe.

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Sammy hung around ALOT.  She retrieved balloons and kept saying that I was So Funny!  I kept saying,

“I’ve worked hard to become so.”

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So she got a nose… and paper towels instead of a specially custom JUSBY PIED terry cloth model.

Then… I brought out the new dispenser… and it FAILED again!  Gas hissed out the side and, when dispensed, shot everywhere.  So I just splattered around toward adults.  We gave it to the birthday girl, and she wouldn’t put it in dad’s face.  Good girl!

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[at home I found the O-ring on the drying rack!  Well, it's clean for tomorrow! LMAO What a Life!]

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Honey enjoyed the trampoline.

Then the water-balloons came out and I actually used the bucket of water… AS WATER.  Then the confetti!

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The Deck of the porch provided a marvelous stage!  I used the left, and Honey painted faces and bejeweled on the right.

In addition to the pie-ings, they had a giant back yard filled with activities including TWO pools and a Trampoline.  All around the perimeter were activities like Pop the Balloon with a Dart, Cardboard Bumper Cars, Ring Toss, Western Dress-Up Photo, a Hamburger/ Hot Dog Stand with Cotton Candy, Popcorn, Etc. Etc. Etc.!

Kids came up and started giving me tickets to ride the stilts!

I gave a few rides out and harassed a teenager who had one of two earbuds in his ears.  I asked what he was listening to and HE DIDN’T KNOW!  Later I caught him about to text.  I told him no texting!

I got the show started by pouring out the five or six little white plastic bottles in to the bucket so the fish could drink.  I ended with the not-so-little brown plastic jug.  “They drink like fish”, followed by “Little brown jug how I love thee!”  And of course a fish squirted me.  I made sure they were full at home.

And I kept repeating that I might need it during the juggling fire part.  [which I never did]

I did juggle the sports balls and went through the whole routine including “They should call it the Super Hoop, or the World Court, but I guess that one’s taken”.  Which wound up with Cup, Bowl, Plate/ What’s for dinner? Fish! and a squirting fish!

All concluded ahead of schedule and under budget!   Go team JUSB-HONEY!

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June 24, 2009

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Organic Whipped Coconut Cream

June 21, 2009

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If you followed my incessant twittering on the subject you’ll know that my new whipped cream dispenser actually DOES WORK!

We celebrated Summer Solstice yesterday with a banana split that included organic vanilla frozen yogurt, hot Nutella sauce w/ organic dark chocolate chips melted in for good measure, a wee bit of butterscotch sauce (left over from the Butter Beer experiment), homemade whipped cream, and a sprinkle of granola.

Here was a bonus test for Father’s Day: Organic Whipped Coconut Cream on a banana split!

With less trimmings to avoid a giant sugar spike for the li’l guy.

Extensive internet research revealed the secret to success.  First, refridgerate the can of coconut milk and skim off the cream.  Then I sweetened with agave syrup and shook heartily.

As the resulting whipped cream was very dense I’ll bet the mixture could be thinned, as long as it’s the consistency of ordinary dairy heavy cream.  For some reason, the interwebz recommended adding soy milk powder as well!

In any event, I feel confident that I can now offer both Organic and non-dairy versions of the Pie-in-the-Face!

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Circus themed birthday

June 8, 2009

I did my first double pieing the other night.

It was at the birthday of a twin, a gemini, but I didn’t pie her and her twin brother.  I pied two girls who are dating, and they are both named Erin.

Mauren and her twin brother turned 33 (another symmetrical synchronicity!), and she decided to announce her party on #fcbk.  Since she didn’t have a computer with internet at her house, creating the invitation fell to me.  Since she had decided on a Circus theme I felt morally obligated to make the scene.

I convinced Heather “Honey” Duke to accompany me and assist with principal photography. heh.

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Honey applies the bindi jewel to Maureen’s 3rd eye.

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The birthday girl now sees all, and tells nothing.  We gotta get her a red nose and clown character though, so she can start participating in the RNB alley events.

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“Blaireau” did a great set with a street organ.  He’s an actual French “organ grinder”.

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This fellow wanted eyes like Siouxsie Sue.  Sarah got a white dragon across the nose.  How could I have forgotten to take a picture of the Temple kid who got a blue dragon?!

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Glen had some great “chicken scratches” from prison.

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The King of Olympia (in yellow pants) tried to pie me at one point, but I fended him off with my superior Clown Fu.

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The two Erins.  My first time doing a double shot.

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Bil Fleming finally got his pie… a year in the making.

Before it got dark I got to show off my fan flipping to a beautifully costumed Dutch-Indo family.  Who, of course, I didn’t get any pictures of…  nor the other clowns!  nor the half dozen weiner dogs in cute costumes!  Oh, I was preoccupied.  With pie-ing!  Here’s ANOTHER double shot!  Two men, one young and one not.

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Tim “Big Mouth” the Ringmaster waited until sunset until he felt ready.  Then the Little Prince seemed to want to get it too.

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My second double shot EVER.  Appropriate for the birthday party of a Gemini Twin.

Then the King set up a video projector and we watched UHF and Shakes the Clown projected on the side of Maureen’s house.  Until the cops came.

Here was the epic fail of the night.  After a flurry of twittering about inaugurating the new Organic pie-in-the-faces with a red 1/2 pint whipped cream dispenser delivered fast and cheap from e-bay…. it didn’t work.

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The busted rubber gasket in my brand new whipped cream dispenser from e-bay.  I wasted the first two NO2 cartridges before I realized it wasn’t keeping a seal.  Sprayed Horizon Organic Heavy Cream and Agave syrup all over the dining room and Trish’s homework!  The seller said “I don’t have spare parts.  Call the company!”

The company website lists a spare gasket for $3, but they’re asking for $7 in shipping and handling.  That would bring the total up where it would’ve been if I had bought the thing from Fred Meyer or the mall, but they didn’t have RED.

I’m checking locally with Espresso Parts to see if their gaskets are compatible.  And I’m geeked to collaborate with them on a Barista Clown idea.

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Absconded with Chuck’s hat at the end of the night.  I’m keeping it hostage until my missing lucky spatula is found.

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June 2, 2009

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Match Party Extraordinaire and the 101st pied face

April 22, 2009

I got invited to the Big Brothers, Big Sisters Match Party Extraordinaire and promoted in the newsletter as “Jusby and Friends”.  Bubble~Trouble accompanied me with her “Little Sister”, and Orion came along to take pictures.  When we spotted the bouncy house I had to reassign Bubble to photo duty while Orion waited for and took his turns in the bouncy house.

I’d picked up the 50 Gallon Stanley rolling tool chest that I’d been coveting.  It held everything I needed and then some, but it was simply too big for the Honda Accord, so I returned it.  I liked having a table space for building pies and so on, but honestly…

Once I started offering free pie-in-the-face… I didn’t need any other clown supplies: face-painting, balloons, juggling, puppets, NOTHING!

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My new giant pencil got used and appreciated.  It especially worked well with the hatchet sharpener gag.

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Successfully tore kids away from the bouncy house!

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Which brings my total to 101 pied faces!

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March 8, 2009

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February 20, 2009

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Dress Rehearsal

October 30, 2008

Jusby, Devilman, and Mike at the Halloween House on Thursday’s opening night/ dress rehearsal.

Jusby’s make-up is a new clown-lite variation. His Mad Hatter costume is missing the giant bow tie. He’s wearing a short sleeve button up over an Evergreen sweatshirt. Not pictured: Jusby’s polypropylene long underwear and the teacup full of bloody sugar cubes.

The music definitely helped. The playlist included:

Arrington de Dionyso “Breath of Fire”

the Januaries “Love Met the Devil”

Magnetic Fields “Save a Secret for the Moon”

Devics “Ghost”

the Knurlings “Cemetary Stomp”

Harvey Danger “Authenticity”

Hamlet Machine and Sponge “Spirit”

Mary Water “Headless Horseman”

Shocore “Bone Cracker”

Dennis Driscoll “Maureen Halloween”

the Actual Tigers “Standing By”

the Shaggs “It’s Halloween”

the Rondells “TV Zombie”

Diamanda Galas “I Put a Spell on You”

Joey Ramone “Spirit in my House”

Reverend Horton Heat “Halloween Dance”

and lots more! from the Dance O’ Dance mp3 archives.

I anticipate spending the majority of Halloween evening working the crowd from the front yard all the way to “the frightening Egress!” I’ll arrive at approximately 6:30 and depart at 10. Love to see you there!

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Previewing the Halloween House

October 29, 2008

Mike told me to drop by the scene this evening. I had Orion with me, and he was having serious reservations as we approached via the cemetery.

I’d given him my 18Kt Gold Ankh as a protective amulet. Oma Selma gave it to me many years ago. She got it off the Home Shopping Network, but I didn’t mention that. I led him to believe that it would repel the undead as it stands for eternal life. I also suggested he wear his LED headlamp and sound dampening headphones.

Furthermore, I let him carry the green LASER!

I brought my new Maxwave wireless audio support blasting a Halloween mix of mp3s, including at least three episodes worth of October Dance O’ Dance tracks. It’s gone FURTHER on sale since I bought mine. See this listing at SEARS.COM. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05792917000P

Jusby's Wireless Audio Support

Jusby's Wireless Audio Support

Mike had told me that the Olympian wasn’t giving him any coverage. I noticed as much myself on searching their website for Halloween trick or treating locations/ haunted houses. http://www.theolympian.com/entertainment/story/632229.html

Mike wasn’t home when we arrived, but his evil minions were busy working, and Orion could barely hold himself together. He wouldn’t walk in and started bawling, but I lifted him onto my shoulders and had him zap all the creepy guys with the laser until we left.

One improvement they’ve made this year is a one-way valve to prevent people from revisiting the back yard and ruining the surprises. They’re also using more of the side yard.

Also, the road actually got repaved TODAY, so you don’t have to drive through the graveyard if you don’t want to, but I recommend it anyway.

Edit: As we left Orion said, “That was SO AWESOME! I’m gonna tell Mom how brave I was! I’ll show her all the stuff I was wearing and that I zapped the bad guys with the green laser! She’ll be so proud of me!”

I suggested that we go back later so I could actually talk to Mike. “No WAY!” he said.

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September 2, 2008

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Protected: Pie Game

August 20, 2008

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July 13, 2008

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July 10, 2008

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July 9, 2008

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