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January - 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.
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!
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.)
Even though Kallie had been pied at Tristen’s party a few months ago, she was still keen on getting pied at her own birthday. In fact, she wanted the whipped cream all through her hair and everywhere… going back for a second pie after every one had theirs. She knew about the red clown nose I sometimes use and had a suitable substitute in the form of Groucho glasses!
Here’s Emily trying the low PVC stilts.
Exhausted from the ride, Jusby has a drink of water.
Emily pied!
The full head deal!
Isabelle got pied, but said “Not in my hair!”
Roger signed the waier and then walked off, saying “See you.” So we had to stalk him with a pie and convince him to come back.
He decided that Kallie’s mom should enjoy some of the sweetness too!
Isabelle asked for a Sea Serpent. This one had a jewel in its mouth and a touch of glitter.
Tristen wanted Croc-man from Batman. Loved using the mesh for the scales.
And since Kallie wanted a fish, I got to use it again. I was somehow inspired to add the hook with a worm.
(psst! Austin! You’re supposed to smile!)
I picked up my copy of the Our Money Matters Buy Local Savings Book at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. I’m at #9, on the first page of perforated coupons right below Harlequin Productions and right before KAOS.
I got a lot of comments on my discount of 3.14159265% OFF Any Premium or Deluxe visit. Marie Poland, the director of the Buy Local Campaign, had to do a double take. She thought it might have been a typo or computer error until she cracked the code: it’s Pi, of course. I don’t even want to do the math on that discount!
I tried out a new look with the green wig and curlicue hat, built a Rudolph puppet from a hobby horse whose stick had broken, and put fresh batteries in him so he’d make galloping and whinnying noises. I also decided to bring the clipboard like it had THE LIST (the naughty and nice one). It also held extra cards and coupons.
Then I had my pic taken with Santa just before the parade started.
And hitched a ride with him! In the Electric Trolley.
As we approached the TCTV cameras the announcer saw us coming and said, “It’s Santa! and… is that Mrs. Claus?!”
So I jumped out and handed him my card, which he read off!
“Jusby the Clown and Comedy Consultant 888-2729! Getting his plug in!”