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The golden age of dizmal






you can Twitter me up or find me on the Facebook if you need me.
Here is wHAT I HAVE i BEEN UP TO?
Entertaining the people, delighting the crowds making the children laugh. I have maintained at least two kid gigs a week but mostly more. We make zines and crayons, do maintenance work for a company and do open mic shows, rock videos, commercials and circus shows. I worked a long time to be able to scrape out a living as a clown in the town I love.

Tue. Open Mic!!!!click image

And then come back Wed. with the kids for Dingo's story time and Olive Balloons! Wed. 10am!

Wow I have quite a few kid gigs these days.Click photos to see full pics.

This is from The HooHaa on a student run organic farm near Corvallis OR. The Oregon State U hired my to co host the event and Olive to do balloons. Find me on Facebook for details about all the gigs.

Brick Break!

Coloring book T shirts!!!!!!!!!!!!!click here

Phantom Chicken is working with Dingo and Olive and will be taking pre-orders for this limited edition print run until April 13, 2011.

By pre-ordering you can choose your favorite shirt styles, colors, and sizes... like getting a custom shirt with this fantastic art on it.

We will be printing these shirts on April 15, 2011 and then we'll ship them priority mail to wherever you are.

here is a first...

Tonight I made a complicated order in a catalog. I ordered lots of items involving me writing the numbers of the individual items. Then I email the numbers and they bring me the merchandise. I have a business license and it's pretty common actually.
BUT!!! The crazy first time experience is....drum roll.
I'm in the catalog that I'm reading over and over in photos and there is a cartoon of me on the cover!!!!!
It's pay for a modeling gig and the face on the cover part is because we made fast friends with the crew.
We will be selling bike lights that you can charge up with a USB port!!!
I'm so happy and grateful that a gig provided me with a little micro business to keep the bills paid.

click here for our coloring book

Flier fullcirque used at a recent Seattle Comic con.

click for full image

Mt.Tabor Theare Miss Kennedy's Cabaret

fantastic!!!!!!

!The better half of a beloved Kelso WA. couple has just sprung out of a coma and into one (or 10) of our coloring books!! Why would a nice grandma be into chaos clown scribblings? Well..she "Get's it".She looks great! I think she will be coloring stuff and enjoying life a very long time.

I got an email "My wife just came out of a coma and one of the first things she asked for was one of your coloring books..please send me 10 of them!"
She looks great!!!looks like a speedy recovery is at hand. Amen!I knew we were good at making people giggle but actual healing properties!!!????Now that we are confirmed healers I have taken to saving all my bath water...in case medical science needs it for research or something.Welcome back to the world of the Living V!!!!
You can get you Magic Healing rubber chicken book here http://www.etsy.com/listing/63448042/rubber-chicken-coloring-book

We did a modeling job for a bike parts catalog

We had a great time with the employees who were happy to dress up for the occasion.
It was intimidating that so many copies of this catalog will be shipping all over the world.For the occasion I decided to change my face paint colors from black to purple.
I liked that all the folks we met were sharp and sharp looking. They gave us a tour of the facility and it's all quality and the people get treated great and looked happy.

The compensated us well and we are thinking of taking our whole payment in the form of bike lights so we will have something to sell on the street besides giant novelty chicken paintings.

Too much rain to husstle

so it's all about laundry and dishes. We had such good luck with the coin op laundry at our "partments that I decided to try my hand at coin op dishwashing at our local car wash.

now wax...So the attendant came over and started blathering something about "Not intended for" and "enchiladas in the driveway" so I told him "Yeah me and the misses just evicted people from our rental property and we are spraying off the old tenants dishes before donating them to Goodwill. He almost believed me but then he asked "Why are you wearing clown make up?" So I had to punch him in the nuts. I ran off sacrificing most of my dishes. It still worked out because now I won't have to wash them again.

What a recommendation!!!!!

A nice lady comes out of a coma and she is doing great! Her dutiful husband asks what he can get her...her wish is his command. She asks for the Olive and Dingo coloring book! He ordered 10 so I guess the nurses will be coloring chickens now!!!!Welcome back to the living world Virginia!!!!!

"Hey Dingo, My virginia is out of her Coma and doing GREAt, well, considering she tried to die and spent half of the month with more plumbing than our house.... BUT
One of the first things she said was she wants your coloring book. I have to grant that. Now that is a HELL of a recommendation for your book. "Comatose woman asks for Dingo Dizmal & Olive Rootbeers Coloring book upon regaining Coinscieness."
I know you posted info elsewhere to send you Georges, but I have been preoccupied. Tell you what, I'll buy 10, Yes, I mean it.... Give me the addy and the georges are on the way. gotta make it worth your time!

Pat,"
click the link above for your own copy!

there was a terrible accident at work

You rock Gunner Dizmal!

Welcome to the wonderful world of dumpster scrubber!

W.T.F? I have to work maintenance in a downtown building to pay the bills and Olive is rife with clowny gigs. She is an amazing business woman and I'm so happy she is my partner. But I thought I was the clown! Actually I had a big hand in the initial taming of Mississippi ave. back in the day so I know this job well. I had worked on many buildings while my baby girl was growing up. I even did a roofing clean up with my daughter on a sling on my back.
It's ok with me that Olive has the cool job. I like working hard a great deal and she likes being her own boss. I think it's funny that when we met she got to quit her day job and I had to get one.
You may find her (and me) birthday party's or events like a super bowl party and of course table side ballooning out in the burbs.

Sterling and I holding it down at the Open Mic.

Happy Birthday Bruce! It's my sons 5th Bday.

I wasn't invited to his bday, or any other day since my ex stopped sharing the kids with me. She should be ashamed of herself. This isn't at all about the kids it's her ego.
May 30th is the last time I had any contact with my children and that's an awful thing to do to them. Today my work was of the maintenance man variety. My mind was on my boy and my boss had to remind me to watch the traffic we were working near.Stealing a year of my son's life from me could be the worst thing anyone has ever done to me. My mind is more worried about what it does to him. Will he act out and commit crimes? will he hate his mom for this? Will he trust anyone? I was there for her and my kids for all the years until she left me. They both squirted out into my hands and I fed and protected them for years and years. I was there for the lady too (even if it hurts her to admit). If I wasn't then she lied to a lot of people when we were married.
You got robbed son! Every moment of today is like the shock of standing on a cliff thats collapsing. I'm not worried about my health it's my boy's mental health having his mom rip him from the Dad. She took them utilising a flurry of lies, exaggerations hypocritical nasty-grams and anonymous hate mail. I have no reason to think she will negotiate in any way other than what she has done so far.
If this was about my mental health as she claims then we would sit down with the kids and explain what's up like adults. If her story held any water then I would join that discussion.
I don't know if this was a present to her emasculated BF? Bitterness about my success and happiness? or maybe even paranoid control issues. What I do know is that his is so wrong. I have never been in trouble, never had a problem and always paid child support.
I'm doing kid gigs with my GF because she needs the help. I just have to make sure no little hand comes into contact with mine or I start bawling.
I love you so much son!!!!!!!!!

I found this on Grobbly Gribbly's facebook page.

I was with my valentine

If your neighbor lives (at most) two houses away and you want to send his dogs poop from your yard to his rooftop quietly and at a high rate of speed.

I decided this would make a fine cottage industry for me. I'm calling my company "Returning the favor". Now I gotta figure out if i charge for the service or should I rent a hall and teach a "How to" class and sell tickets.
I'm also noticing that to ride a 10 foot bike I never wear a helmet but to shoot dog crap 50 yards I upgrade to crash helmet....HA!

Started work on the movie/theatrical presentation "The caped crusader"

Heres the deal Dingo..I know it's freezing but your character is only gonna be wearing sheet thin material, You will be doing the same 10 moves ad nausium for hours as we get the shots from all angles, you only have your eyes to act out a complex story and here put this syrup that tastes like cat meds in your mouth...look on the bright side, at least you can't be funny in this one!"

They never shoot in order so I can't wait to find out how I ended up like this.

Olive Figgered out Paypal!!!!!thanks Olive. We held out as long as we could doing it the old punk rock mail in yer money/checks/zines/bus tokens way .

Click above to have two high quality prints mailed to you for only $7 postage paid!

I was so happy to see Nick Loki photography in the house Thur's night

He has taken the best photos of us ever.

Saterday Wide Open Mic With Your Hosts DINGO Dizmal AND OLIVE Rootbeer

Time Saturday, February 5 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location Flying Cat Coffee 3041 SE Division Street., Portland OR, 97214

Sign Up is @ 6:30pm WE START AT 7pm.
Slots are 10 minutes or 3 pieces...
They have beers for sale... but ALL AGES are welcome!

Bring a Dinner Date or come to make friends! This ongoing event is to bring performance artists of all sorts to SE Portland and showcase the multitude of talent. Located in a cozy cafe there are drinks, food and fun for all! Need to let out some energy this Saturday? Come pour your heart out, make some jokes or make a friend at our intimate stage...

Oh.... and come prepared for a possible contest; Prizes and Balloons for participants! :o)

we made them happy tonight!

tonight!

We are Cabaret show clowns tonight!!!!

I love it...a kid show in the morning and an adult show in the evening.

Liam M. Addams has been doing fantastic work coloring our Coloring book's pages!

Amazing work mister!


click photos to see them better.


Liam is the guy in the brown shirt and sandals...


Our book cost $4 and is at
Powell books on Hawthorne,
El Guapo 63rd&Foster,
Cosmic Monkey 53rd&Sandy blvd.,
Excalibur 24th&Hawthorne,
Floating world comics 5th&Burnside,
Daedalus 21st & Flanders and Reading Frenzy 9th&Burnside.


Need one mailed? Mail it's $5 sent to Olive Rootbeer 4110 SE Hawthorne #142 Portland OR. 97214-5246

wigs in the dumpster

I would like to thank the person who threw away two wigs. When I looked into the dumpster I thought I had found a body!!That mortal freakout was exhilarating. It also gave an opportunity to observe my neighbors observation skill. If there ever was a body the folks round here wouldn't notice.