June 2008 Archives
The new calendars are here! The new Calendars are here! (I have been reading Steve Martin's autobiography)
They did a story about Master Lu Yi training the Synchronized Swim team. Check out this video to get a taste of the master's teaching style.
There is of course life after clown school graduation. I don't think people were prepared for everyone's family and friends to be at the graduation. We had been living in the Circus Center for so long and were between shows so we thought it was just going to be a little ceremony with us and the teachers. So we were half-in costume and pretty rowdy from the days show when we walked into the studio and were greeted by a sea of people. I fared quite a bit better than Mollyball. She showed up to the ceremony without any pants on.
The unfortunate thing is that you cannot see all of the man-fur I was sporting.
This is the costume I had been wearing.
Here is the rest of the class. 21 clowns now looking for work.
One of the great things about being in San Francisco is being in a vital city where cool stuff happens and it still be a small place. The city is only seven miles across but has a city hall like this. Totally OTT. I was there for some business registration stuff that happened to be in the same office where they were preparing to give out more Same-Sex Marriage Certificates. The workers were glowing, really exicted about being able to marry more people. I was great to sample the energy in the room.
Then I tried to leave and confronted Darth Vader on the lawn.
Our Graduation Showcase is this weekend! June 13th, 14th, and 15th at the Circus Center, 755 Frederick St. Check www.circuscenter.org for more information and tickets. The F-Bomb and I do a clown acrobatics act (of course) that involves robots and mind control. And Butt jokes. Lots of butt jokes.
(it will be live as soon as the calendar goes to print in the next few days)
The Calendar is something that we thought up (and Chad Benjamin Potter put together) in order to thank our circus skills teacher Judy Finelli for being totally awesome. Judy is kind of a big deal in the American Circus world, she was responsible for putting together the San Francisco Circus Center and worked with the Pickle Family Circus way back when they started. She was diagnosed with MS several years ago and has somehow managed to be the best juggling and skills teacher I have had even though she is a quadriplegic.
The Circus model is more like being in a family than being in a business so Judy's care has been managed by the people at the Circus Center instead of some awful insurance company. The Calendar was our classes way of helping the Circus Center help Judy. All Profits from each calendar's sale will go to the Judy Finelli fund which pays for her care as well as funding MS research. So buying the Calendar is like doing a walk for MS without all of the walking and getting a bunch of naked clowns as well.
With gas this expensive, we had to cut costs somewhere.
