Arbiter Olive.

Busy day but we had time to stop for burritos.
As I was munching away, behind me I hear a man sit by a vid poker machine. He asked "Is someone here?"
The chair was propped backwards. That means occupied.
A middle aged black lady had been there and had got up to restroom and get her food.
Olive told him it was occupied.
The man put money into it anyway. I keep munching and soon the woman returned. She was livid. "Excuse me Sir, That's my machine, I marked it."
The man grumbled and said something to her in Spanish. She said "Don't grumble at me, get up, pull your money."
They start arguing.
I have my back to them but I was enjoying the Seagull fights...that is until I hear a familiar voice. Olive: "Yeah that was her seat Sir, ya gotta let her have her place." Then the man told the woman"I'm gonna shoot you in the parking lot."
That didn't have the desired effect as now the lady is screaming at him "Oh you gonna shoot me huh?" He added fuel to the fire by putting in more money while looking right at her.
Both Olive and the lady went to the front.
The lady was complaining Olive was being supportive...until the lady added "And you need to speak American!"
That is a great way to lose Olive support but she hung in there.
The man had several landscaper buddies with him. Anything can happen. I'm watching my food and trying to mow it down in case I gotta fight or dodge flying furniture.
I will have a great attitude until I lose my lunch. Times like this make me glad to be a Texan. I have a smile on my face but I'm easily the most ferocious person in the building. For now I'm just gonna watch (hear) the show. So the lady was grumpy, so was Olive (conflicted but still right is right) and soon the owner walks in.
He is about 300 pounds with the huge arms and no humor for this.
There was some more yelling and a little giggling (from me).
Pretty soon the man pulled his money out and slinked away.
The lady sat down and warmly thanked Olive for having her back.
On the way out Olive had a sour expression like most folks in the taco stand at that point. I sure didn't I was laughing my head off.
That was the most entertaining thing that has happened all day. It was also a triumph to see (hear) my partner relentlessly backing up a woman of color even when the threat of guns were involved.

"Entropy...I'm not half the stain I used to be."

 Bad news. My favorite Portland landmark is going away. It's an Ice Cream spill that used to be a full spilled Ice Cream Sunday that has been residing in a Mexican themed restaurant since I first noticed it circa 2017. It's extraordinary because the place doesn't sell ice cream. The staff is plentiful and they run a tight ship. It's a literal snowball in hell. And that ius why I love it. Underdog! :) 

The gambling machines must be a blind spot for the very religious staff because gambling es el diablo. Anyhoo. We just visited and noticed it has lost most of it's luster. I couldn't bring myself to photograph it. I wanna remember "Spilly" the way it was in this pic from months ago. Even if it fades away I will always remember how long it avoided the wipe rag. It's dying of natural causes. HANG IN THERE SPILLY!

Protecting my esoteric P town landmark

I almost royally screwed up. My favorite taco place hosts one of my favorite esoteric Portland landmarks.

This ice cream spill has been here since Summer 2017. It's amazing that a spill can last that long in a busy restaurant with plenty of staff.
Also it's a minor miracle to behold a fossilized ice cream spill in a place that doesn't sell ice cream.
This spill means a lot to me and today I almost ruined it.
I walked in to find a bunch of beer bottles on the ledge. Quickly I went to dispose of the litter before it attracts a more thorough cleaning.
But while doing that I dropped one of the bottles (buttafingiz) smashing it loudly.
Employees came in to check the commotion. I asked for a broom but they wouldn't let me.
So I just stood between the ice cream and certain scrubbery. They quickly scooped the glass and went back to bigger and better tacos.
(Whew that was close)

Portland song, the lost tapes

The Portland Song "lost tapes". We got the lost tapes back this morning. Here they are. We got lucky. We don't like driving but when we do we have fun, that is until our camera falls off the car. 

After the Portland song stay tuned for that moment when a fateful bump knocks our camera down. Sean found it and left it by the road for a half hour. In that time lots of people walked by. 

Some looking right at it. It's hilarious watching us look for the gopro. Then 26 hours later Bingo, we visit our new friend at work, thank him vigorously and boom, we are back in biz. Thank you Honest Sean Carlson! Nice to meet you! Thanks for making it a great town to be a clown.

Grateful clowns here. We ballooned him and his colleagues up at his animal repair job.

oliveanddingo.com

TONIGHTs show

The boss sets his plan.

Getting the non live music together...

Mr.Creature wears many hats, here he is making the circus music happen.

Willaim Batty introduces Juan Prophet Organisation, this band is huge sounding, very keen I am on J.P.O.









The bucket act.




Mercury Rising came with Olive and I to help us keep our end of the Sideshow running.
The three of us took buses and bikes all around SE gathering equipment and costumage then all bused to Dante's about 3 hours early.
We all sat in the green room and worked out the nights three acts that I was responsible for. I'm so glad we did because all our stuff went off without a hitch.
Thanks MERC!




"Stunt Banjo" con "Mercury Rising" the clown.





150 pounds of amazing woman holding me down in 3" of random broken glass.

Taking a bow


A real life Ringmaster, our M.C. and boss, William Batty



NATI the patchwork girl...the most graceful of nature's cruel mistakes!




NAGASITA




Tiger moves knives!

The BUG EATING CONTEST...I ended up joining the race by eating a 75 watt lightbulb, the other two contestants ate silk worm pupa from a can.

I ended up commin in dead last eating my lightbulb, O Well, at least my lightbulb only cost 63 cents, all those bugs cost 3.79 for two cans.



The winner!

The wonderful Cali







Da Bear!...dripping with skills!

Nick Creature is happy ta meet cher!
He is from my homeland and I always want to bring him tacos and burritos.






Bear slackin




Behind the shadows...

NATI the patchwork girl and William Batty

Introducing Olive...Thanks James for taking photos for us while I was on stage, you too Meghan!

What's UP Your Ass?
Here Olive shows the crowd how to play the game by sticking some vicegrip pliers between my butt crack, I guessed it right in seconds flat!

A squeeky whale toy!


A magnafying glass!

?????????????

Good show, now it's time to go home!


Tired! Too tired to take off her make up before CRASHING!
I feel bad that I have to wake her up to take it off.