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!”
I went down to the Capital Theater last night with some trepidation about seeing myself again in David Raffin’s TWO clown videos. I was so happy I went, though. I scored this illustration by Chelsea Baker who draws a comic EVERY DAY! http://chelseathebaker.com/dailycomics
It had been a long term goal to be on the big screen in a speaking role. I need to revisit that vision and make sure I have a bigger say in the editing. David tends to leave me on camera entirely too long. I understand, though. I’m highly telegenic, entertaining and… unpredictable.
I also saw a whole lot of great (mostly student) films. It was a very stimulating night… early morning.
Best Film Fest this Decade!
She Likes Him | Phoebe Moore <Hilarious claymation
N.W. Clown Fest and This Clown is on Fire | David Raffin
Murphy’s Ark | Aviva Siegal and Jessica Gonzales <This one had a wonderful pie-in-the-face that was fast, wet and sloppy… and unexpected
Alone | Freddy Dobler and Sean Downey <beautiful and bizarre music video
I Became Very Small and Into the Wire | Ryan Converse
Hypnagogue | Sam Palmer
The Human Race | Otis Pig
Buddy Named Truth | Charlie Daugherty <sweet, funny, moving… made me cry
All the Things You Could Not Say | Tasha Glen <beautiful and intricate and left me wanting more, more, more
I finally got around to having 2 1/2 hours to catch up on the Show Off Finals.
I was really looking forward to this moment per a status update by the director
“With a LIVE show anything can happen – our MC fainted ONSTAGE (he’s fine but it was scary)! Another MC stepped in for the last 1/4 of the show.”
Here it is.
[1:35:30] “Another big hand for the Slieveloughane (Sleeve-locaine) dancers okay. we’ve got three more acts and a lot of talent, but first let’s bring out the second half performers, Formula Boogie… “
[1:35:44] slump, CLUNK.
[1:35:46] They enter. Jerry’s hair is visible on the floor.
A b-boy does a flip. They notice Jerry.
[1:35:51] A lady jumps on stage and instantly says “Call 911!” and points at a person to do it [1:35:54].
[1:35:56] Deb starts walking across the stage. A b-boy is backing up with his hands in the air! Like WTF, I didn’t touch him!
[1:36:04] Stage crew are rushing over. A silhouetted woman in the audience gets up and runs toward that side of the stage, and the director goes to a commercial.
Then there’s a kid interviewing the b-boys. They talk about how long they’ve been dancing and shout out a prayer for Jerry.
He is replaced by John Tennis who acknowledges that he is NOT Jerry Farmer. He says, “Jerry put his body and soul into the show, and his body is being worked on now.”
By the 2:00 mark, Deb comes on and says that Jerry’s fine.
“He got a little light headed during that dance routine.”
Sheer Professionalism! Donate to TCTV for some smelling salts!
[2:24:51] All the contestants are on the stage, and John Tennis says, “Will You Welcome Back to the stage, Jerry Farmer… and Deb Vinsel!” [Cheers and concerned looks. He's in a wheelchair]
Jerry says, “Thank you all for your care and concern, and a special thanks to my two nurses who helped me out back there, Mike and Chelsea, and here’s the really cool thing. They’re Mental Health nurses, okay?”
“God knows we love you, Jerry,” says Deb. “Yeah,” says Jerry.
“There’s a whole other story,” says John.
“There certainly is,” says Deb.
“Crazy Business,” says Jerry, ” Thank you all.”
This update just in from Deb:
Congratulations … Troyz Boyz – 2009 TCTV SHOW OFF! Audience Choice Award Winner and “O” – 2009 TCTV SHOW OFF! Judges Choice Winner. TCTV is a winner too.. nearly $5000 raised in donations and sponsorships and a great, fun new community event is born! See you all next year!
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.
I spent the afternoon with Luke shopping for the new flaming pie hardware. We went to Home Depot for an hour. Then we stopped at Ace Hardware for the white gas (aka Coleman fuel). We walked to the dollar store and got cutting boards, red oven mitts, a red checkered tablecloth, and plums (for Orion). Then we had to go back into Ace Hardware for more screws and washers to attach the boards and mitts where scrap lumber had been.
Luke handled all the drilling and screwing from that point. They were done in time for me to rush down to the Midnight Sun and talk with Elizabeth Lord about the possibility of flaming pies in her upcoming Vaudeville show.
What was expected was “an audition”.
Two groups were before my conversation. A couple did a drag Mary Poppins / Chimney Sweep lipsynch and dance. I wasn’t familiar with the version, but it took aim, in part, at Disney. Then the woman had another partner do a Flamenco duet.
I told Elizabeth frankly that my new flaming pie act had never been tried, but I proposed a Clown-lesque act of approximately 5 minutes. If I felt I could not safely perform flaming pies indoors I was willing to work outside, perhaps during intermission. I was sure to light them up later that evening. We would be in touch.
Here they are soaking in white gas. Neighbor Aaron advised, after the fact, mixing the white gas with paraffin lamp fuel, to lower the flash point and mellow it out overall.
A fully soaked pie. Aaron also demonstrated how it is wise to shake off the excess fuel… before lighting it.
They lit up good!
So I did a little dance.
Then I consented to an interview with David Raffin.
Last August we went down to West Linn for their Festival in the Forest. This year it will be on August 15 & 16th from 10 AM to 6 PM.
I got these pics of Scott “Mag” Hughes of W.E. C.A.R.E Sports doing massive plate spinning.
He’s also
“well known as one of the pioneers of the sport of Footbag (hackysack), and holds national and world titles in Footbag competition. In recognition of his efforts in promoting the sport of footbag, Mag was inducted as an inaugural member of the Footbag Hall of Fame in 1997.“
That’s “Mag” in the blue T-shirt.
It was Oma’s first time seeing Stephanie Schneiderman who performed with Keith Schreiner and James Beaton. Oma wound up being a big fan and bought all her CDs.
First, I borrowed a circular saw from the neighbor. Actually, I just wanted my handsaw back, but he offered his electric one that had recently been rediscovered in his closet of a garage. I plugged it in and pruned a few dead branches in the backyard.
Then, I watched a Harry Potter Lego video on YouTube. It was a preview for Order of the Phoenix. There are no new Legos out for Half-Blood Prince.
Last, I read the first few chapters of Deathly Hallows to Orion. I stayed in his room all night.
Clearly, it was a fun night.
Justin Wright 1/16/08
Last night I did three fun things.
First, I worked in the back yard. I pruned the apple and plum trees. I even let Orion go up the ladder and try the loppers.
Then, I pulled up some of the English Ivy and blackberry vines. I found a Donald Duck figure underneath.
Last, we had a surprise evening play date with Isaiah. His mom wanted to go to Miss Morgan’s going away party. Isaiah got to stay for bath and story time. Orion got to sleep in the big bed. Trish stayed out late and got to see Yogoman at the Eastside with tall Sarah and Sandman.
First, we had another surprise playdate from Isaiah. His mom called to ask if he could have an actual sleep-over. We he arrived I made up some simple sushi of brown rice with sesame oil and Bragg’s (liquid aminos) wrapped in nori seaweed.
Then, we left to go to the library’s reopening celebration for cake and crowd, but we forgot Trish’s keys to turn off her hot stones. We went home for them and one of the neighbor’s new friends asked for a ride to the store and back… and then downtown. Apparently, he needed to buy a used phone for his new girlfriend. En route downtown the new phone rang and a guy told him that it was really HIS phone.
“You mean I just threw away a hundred dollars?”
Finally, we got to the library, but the line for the caricatures was too long for us. Sarah Adorable and Joey Casio knew it would be worth the wait. We got cake instead.
Last, we saw some friends and went home. We stopped at Jack in the Box on the way.
On New Year’s Eve afternoon, outside of Round Table Pizza in West Linn (my high school hangout) wondering when the rest of the audience would arrive and watching the whippersnappers lose my juggling props in muddy snow!
Getting squirted by the green fish.
My most enthusiastic supporter.
His sister.
Their mom.
A great sport!
His sister.
Their dad,Tony, got his pie and celebrated graduating with a BS after 21 years!
Daniel Mueller “took one for the team”
Brad Scoggins got the last pie of 2008! He celebrated graduating from French Culinary Institute in New York City AND turning 40!
Our pal, Rainshine, helps coordinate the Signing Santa program. Every year he’s been mentioning it to the Red Nose Brigade, and tonight I finally made it over to Mt. View Elementary. I’m wearing my festive red sport coat, white frosted hair and some sound dampening headphones to empathize with the deaf and hearing impaired community. Plus it eliminated the irritating sound of those police sirens as I sped 80 mph through a school zone (j/k!).
Aspen agreed to it before we even got through the door!
Darrin fell to peer pressure. At least it broke the monotony of waiting in line!
Xitto started the ball really rolling!
Alex!
Reagan surprised me by hanging around, getting comfortable and then finally giving the nod.
Gia also changed her mind after watching half a dozen others go through it!
Hyung joined the fun!
Min had to share the last towel with his brother.
Then we split with our pic of Signing Santa.
How sweet is that? Orion, Santa, and Isaiah. Somebody either needs new trousers or longer stockings!
Robert just had a birthday and consented to a pie, live on TCTV’s Karaokeoly. I had an unused Halloween pie in the freezer with fake blood and gummy worms.
Ewww…did someone put razor blades in that pie?
On the plus side, I’m wearing a hand-knit hat and scarf made by my sister, Betsy.
Also, here’s a flashback from the first episode of Karaokeoly in which director Tom Patten was the Patsy and Jusby also took one for the team.
Billie Jean keeps on singing.
Loving that Ramblin’ Rod jacket that evolved over 20 years until it got its moment!
I mentioned this song to a friend this weekend and just happened to check if there was a video for it. Sure enough there was. Then several hours later Sandman sent a message announcing the video.
Now Orion’s singing ‘Barack Obama, Barack O-BAMa..’
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