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typical Monday
January 31, 2012
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3 Days left with the Haunted Firehouse!
October 29, 2011most recent pics and VLOG from the Haunted Firehouse…
Very fond of that Green LASER!
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Lots of familiar faces coming through the Haunted Firehouse… some for their 2nd time!
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Halloween Clown Evolution
October 28, 2011Jusby’s Halloween plans have evolved since his 4 year affiliation with the Halloween House.
It began in 2007 with Mike’s post on Myspace asking for people to wear a scary clown costume. I decided to be a volunteer “Horror Liaison” as my regular clown self .
Danger, A Head
In 2008, I returned with a Mad Hatter (Clown Lite) variation.
I also brought my own music and flaming tea cup.
In 2009, I brought Honey the Clown and wore the referee shirt to keep warm.
Last year (2010), it went OFF THE HOOK with the introduction of the Scary Clown Look at Eastside Big Tom’s Fright Night.
So, it’s been a natural progression to accept a position at the Haunted Firehouse which is open for 3 weekends leading up to Halloween. Coincidentally, Mike closed up his yard due to the continual stream of trespassers.
2011, it’s Scary Doctor Jusby of the Youth Asylum.
In the Pink “Green Room”, taking a call from Beyond.
The Haunted Firehouse is a non-profit fundraiser for Family Support Center and the summer youth theater program Kids at Play. The Haunted Firehouse opens on October 20 and runs for a long weekend, before re-opening on October 26 and running through Halloween night. On weekdays, the Firehouse runs from 5 pm until 10 pm. On weekends, we extend the SCARE until midnight, so come prepared for late-night fear!
NOTE that after 7 pm the Haunted Firehouse is Rated PG13, and those under 13 will only be allowed accompanied by a parent or guardian!
The Haunted Firehouse costs $5 for admission. There are no advance ticket sales — each admission costs only $5! First come, first serve!
DID YOU KNOW THE FIREHOUSE IS ACTUALLY HAUNTED?
- Former firefighters who worked here reported that an old firefighter who died patrols the halls at nights (our staff know this ghost well!)
- Rumors of suicides from prisoners held in the jail downstairs.
- Rodents of unusual size once roamed downstairs in years past.
- There was a big smallpox outbreak right here downtown in this area and many people died.
- This used to be the red light district (in Olympia!!!) — the city built this building as part of their public clearing of the brothels that previously stood right near here.
- Prior to becoming the city hall/fire station this was the livery and stagecoach where people came to town and put their horses or caught the stage.
- The man that used to have a cabin here on this site, mysteriously drowned in a canoe accident on capital lake right before taking office as one of the first state legislators.
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First of May Clown Internship
August 21, 2011
This is Melanie Beth “Crystal” Curran, my First of May Clown intern. Because I first discovered my clown at Evergreen, it has long seemed a natural move to become a clowning mentor for other greeners. So I decided to offer to sponsor either an internship or (as in my experience) an individual learning contract.
http://www.evergreen.edu/individualstudy/internshipinformation.htm < Find or List an Internship Here
I posted a position on Wednesday, August 9th. On Friday, August 12 I got a response:
This is your future employette, Melanie Beth Curran.I have a deep respect for clowning and particularly the history of clowning, as archival research and humorous entertainment are my most developed passions. I live in Olympia Washington and I am ready and willing to work to help you ensure the success of your clowning empire. I am attending a second year at Evergreen starting in late September.I will gladly send you a resume once I am on a computer that contain’s that coveted file. Please let me know if this position is already filled so that I may devise a plan to usurp the throne. I have studied clowning for three years at Wavy Gravy’s summertime circus Camp Winnarainbow in Laytonville California.
We met on the 16th and she worked her first gig on the 21st. We did a five hour face painting gig for the Love Our Local Fest: Northeast Neighborhood Block Party, and I soon found that she possesses mad skillz with paint and brushes.
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By the 29th of August I had a 2nd potential intern contacting me. However, we soon discovered that unless the position was a full-time paid position she couldn’t pursue it.
I look forward to the day when I have more than enough work to cover all my expenses and can afford that kind of intern!
I immediately rewrote the internship description to clarify:
Assist the clown at parties and other events. Support the clown archives: written/ photo/ video documentation.
Position is on-call. No guaranteed monthly wages. Each meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune.
This is a hands-on, work-related learning experience. It is not a job-job. Opportunities for compensation will be handled with a fair mix of Show & Business.
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RCR VD
February 15, 2011Orion dressed up as a magician to accompany me to the RCR Valentine’s photo shoot.
Rusty Cock Ridge… it’s sort of a salon. It’s more than a studio and a boutique. It’s a always cozy adventure.
Jusby’s new hair by Toni of Euphorium.
New fans from Grampa Dave & Grama Julie (via Amazon) to coordinate with the red & black color scheme and keep the Indonesian bamboo fans from further injury.
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Pies for Ashton Place
July 10, 2010Shortly 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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Some of the Memphis Transformations
July 9, 2010Practicing face painting on our spontaneous vacation
Mixing up the Henna to practice the Mehndi hands and feet.
By request, a green spotless giraffe.
New Plain Red T-Shirt from a Memphis Walgreen’s outside Otherlands Coffee.
There’s the full effect with custom cut offs, pirate store socks, and only slightly too big Turf King garden slippers.
To Otherlands, You had me at FREE WI-FI ! And it’s lucky you were one block away from the scene of the scene.
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Thinking Outside the box pt 4
May 30, 2010Sunday, we moved the whole shebang over to Temple Beth Hatfiloh
Lots of faces pied
Mary Margaret Fondriest stepped up to the challenge.
Mark Enslin stepped up.
Paula Murphy (presenter of The Chiropractic Center of my Dreams) stepped up with a pal for a twofer.
I finished the weekend with a twofer as well.
and a bunch of unpied faces
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Procession of the Species Celebration
April 25, 2010
Thanks, Berd!
Thanks, Kirsten
originally from Healing Journey with Dr. Roger Sty Bantam… features a brief cameo by Jusby the Clown during Procession of the Species 2010
Thanks, David
Definite Tiger Synchronicity Going on for the Year of the Tiger
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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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Jusby’s Halloween Services
October 20, 2009[based on experience at the Tumwater Halloween House & designed with RCR in mind]
- Pies-in-the-face (only willing faces) outside or in-studio (w/ tarp and towels), usually whipped cream but shaving cream possible (easier clean-up
- Halloween themed pies (orange, blood, fake blood, gummi worms)
- Flaming pie (outside) for periodic tour to selected sites or as stand-alone act
- Wireless sound w/ Halloween music available
- Clown make-overs (could order red foam noses by the dozen)
- Comedy consultations (physical, emotional, etc.)
- Additional face-painting, temporary tattooing, bejeweling, glittering
- Basic balloon twisting
- Juggling (fire, fish, etc.)
- Confetti (timed for photos, Halloween themed, bio-degradable available)
- Guided Laughter Yoga
- Integrating products from boutique
- Unicycle rides
Billed as Deluxe Party, Partial trades available
Pre-publicity, Clowns-eye Photos and blog summary included…
Humorous explorations in cultural literacy while creating your new public media!
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Jack Black Turns 40th
August 28, 2009Thomas John “Jack” Black (born August 28, 1969)
Happy 40th!
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ZOMBIE WALK!
August 8, 2009On the eighth day God said, “Send about 130 zombies after that clown!”
At first, the clown ran, but then he found that zombies like pie-in-the-face just like any body else.
OMG! I pied 8 zombies and a human during the Olympia Zombie Walk. Ok, one guy was on the verge… but anyway, I’m NINE Up.
I got a lot of mileage with my initial shock at seeing the zombies gathered and awaiting their moment to rise. Kids especially liked giving me the evil eye. Note the hatchet in my belt.
There’s Bruce Fogg on the left. A penultimate professional, and longtime practitioner of butoh, he made sure his hands were completely made up too. The menace was completely understated. He would have fit in with the Bon Odori festival quite well. The zombie coordinators realized at the last minute that they needed to change their route. They suspected they might alienate those who put on the 23rd annual Japanese festival to honor ancestors…. by walking through the taiko drummers… with 130 undead ancestors.
photo courtesy Mike Fritsch of Eastside Big Tom’s
I was ready with ax and whipped cream.
Okay, they’re not coming that fast, are they?
Actually, they are shambling a bit too fast! [Note the band-aid on my neck]
YAY! Anti-Zombie Forces had set up an ambush in the parking garage!
The de-zombification ingredient in the pie did the trick on this zombie. At least temporarily.
This guy was a Marine in a former life. I know because a Navy guy was intent on hunting him down.
Even though this guy was a human he was keen on getting pied.
This guy claimed to still be human, but he had a big gash in the head. In fact, I recognized him from the day we stood in line to touch the moon rock. His aunt was a clown.
It took a bit of convincing, but Pat had previously agreed to a pie. See the Off-Duty Birthdays post from last weekend. This time my heart was really into it!
Here’s a zombie couple I pied. Trista and Ethan started macking on each other immediately afterward, and I told them to Get a Room… in the morgue!
This guy did a huge fall and roll after he got pied. Full marks for zombie-like behavior!
I had enough whipped cream left for one final pie. The coordinators (Zombobby and Zomnellie both declined.)
I was sweaty and exhausted from running ahead of them for an hour that I almost went straight home, but Zomnellie said she was gathering everyone up for pictures, and I couldn’t resist another chance to tweak the scene. I spent a couple of minutes shouting instructions to any zombie who would listen.. “Tall ones in the back, short ones in the front” I felt like Ed Wood… or Dead Wood. [which makes sense because I'd just watched Plan 9 from Outer Space the night before. It has zombies in it.]
How I’m going to work a unicycle and flaming pies into this routine I have yet to discover.
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Coloring Book-zine
July 29, 2009I’ve just received my first new Jusby illustration for a Coloring Book-zine. I was inspired to begin the search by Boogle the clown who has a collection of artwork “either as gifts, commission, trades or entries to my art contests”. She’s a green-dreadlocked clown with a third eye and insect fetish.
Abe Poultridge made this Jusby based on my instructions for a Manga/Anime version to share with the EF (English First) students at tomorrow’s gig. I like the Yugioh-type hair, and how he’s invented flair buttons of his own design. I’ll do some branding on it (Name & website) and let the coloring begin.
Another friend is interested in making a drawing, but he’s got to finish building a Borg Cube first!
Here’s some of the current pages…
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Bil’s Party Whig Out BBQ Pie Fest
July 25, 2009I traded a Gift Certificate to Bil Fleming for some X-Mas presents last year. He redeemed it tonight.
At a Spiritual Marshmallow B-B-Q (with wigs) at Casa Blanca.
Jusby goes sleeveless for a hot summer night. I know Alexandria and Dinea through Enterprise for Equity. Mike is wearing my rainbow wig. Maybe if it had a cut and style I would feel better about wearing it, but I need a stylist to do the job.
To my pleasant surprise, Steve Suski was in attendance. He’s got a show of his art up at the Capitol Theater, and his show at the Minneart Center will happen in January. He had some sad news, though. His pet poodle, Gigi, was hit by a car and killed since the last time I’d seen him.
I envisioned the shot having the campfire in the foreground and flaming marshmallows along side of us. Thanks to Dinea de Photo for capturing the shot on Bil’s Camera.
Amanda had asked, “Why is the pie in the face shamanic?”
I replied, “Because it is an esoteric experience. It has to be given from one person to another. The pie is a circle. The pie-ing happens for the community as well. They gather and participate in an ephemeral ritual of sudden awareness… overcoming their fears and savoring the sweetness of life… et cetera, et cetera.”
Here’s the fire and excess pie filling at least.
Then I asked David if he was ready for a pie-in-the-face. He said, “Sure.” He got his g/f Britney in on it, bringing my total to about 193 faces.
And after David got cleaned up he returned to give me a fat tip!
In the background, a collection of Bil’s custom lamps. See also http://bilfleming.com/
A different look: my old nose! Trish found it in the camel bag I wore at Performance Dishwashing last year… along with the fingerless dishwashing gloves.
See also
http://jusbytheclown.com/2008/08/15/performance-dishwashing/
http://jusbytheclown.com/2008/10/12/more-performance-dishwashing-pics/
http://jusbytheclown.com/2008/11/20/more-performance-dishwashing-pics-2/
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