Saturday, November 19, 2005

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Yowza! I just got a break from kid duty, a whole mess of em went down the street to be someone else's train wreck. Earlier they had asked me "Can we do experiments in the kitchen?"I let them and now the place looks like a Tellatubby bar brawl happened.
I had a couple of hours before work (at BARAKKA) so I decided to cop a squat on the sofa and watch some trash TV. It was a gritty, over edited for time, type prison flick about reform school boys called Sleepers. It had Kevin Bacon in it so I really wanted to pay attention to who else was in the movie, being "in the know" is really helpful in my business's (being AT "the KNOW" on Alberta street is good for pinball).
After a brutal scene involving four, drunk, guards and four teen boys who were underground in a dank basement they quickly cut to commercial,
It went: four guards approaching young boys in the dark, a young man screaming as the shot pulls way back into the darkness, Chuck Norris and a liver spotted, bimbo, shilling exercise equipment showing tape of a young boy in a machine that spreads his legs open over and over with shots of a burley meathead also pumping iron and smiling.
In a rare move I turned the TV off and started talking to you.
eeeew, I feel dirty, I wish I could wash my eyeballs.
I may have a stand up drummer to do, stand up comedy with us. her companion plays music too. They brought us chocolate bon bons and told me that Rev.Phil played one of our movies last night and that it went over like gangbusters,people had a lot of laughs, thats what it's all about...kinda like food or a pleasant addiction. I gotziz big plans for the indoor show but no PEEKING till it's done.

yeah!Danger, Capt. Insano and I

chunk666

my people

Sarah needs footage of the Clown House


Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Geoffry has left the building


Geoffry Kingdom,the youngest (5) rock star ever to thrill crowds on our stage has left the building, street, community, city and our lives.
He and his parents (of Scarry Monster music next door to the clown house)have left the state to find greener pastures in sunny L.A.
Boy we're gonna miss that boy...and his folks too, we have seen a lot of changes in ourselves and eachother, chapters change in peoples lives and we have to deal with it.
at least with them leaving town it lowers the number of people who knew me when I was a drunken idiot.

Geoffry I wish you the best buddy, keep your parents safe and if it all goes to hell then tell them to bring you back home (to wherever we live, Alberta street is screwed). Things will never be the same but they never are, we learn and grow just like you do, so from the Clown House
BYE BYE Geoffry, Dave, Wynona! WE LOVE YOU!

The sun is out! Wow!
Last night a nice fella from Seattle came down and bought the Joust arcade game from me.
It was sad to see it go. It seems like the end of an era for the clown house. Without the bikes and the other whoHa there's no need for the game.
So they took away our bike shop and our show but dig this...I found a way to win anyway.
Since they took away my livelihood, I've been using the bike shop tools to make weapons and we are getting on food stamps hahahahaYAY city government, way to create.
We have always qualified for food stamps but never needed them since our DIY approach to survival has afforded us lots of food and money, it's all gone now so now its swords, axes and the government teat.
The weapons aren't for killing, they are for the"Museum of bike weaponry" zat sound silly?
We gotta do what we gotta do.
I just covered half the mud pit with soil from the compost, that's a great way to ensure that the plot of land will always provide food and not lawn (providing they don't build a parking lot here when we go).
I gave the tall bike Maxi Stack to one of the circus kids who was displaced from New Orleans, I'm glad it got a good home.
Phase two:
We are creating the next big indoor show so if you have talent and want in, drop me a line. I'm not looking for fire acts or juggling. I need music people and other acts, ones you don't see every day. We will do gigs all over Portland like we always do in the winter and we also will be doing lots of film and video.
The photo is from this years Chunkathalon
Rev.Phil sent me a link to some clownarchy from across the pond

Monday, November 14, 2005

Bike related craft fair WOW!


Hey folks, super friend of the Clown House Jonathan Maus is having an event around bike parts made into art and craft. I plan to bring my "Museum of bike weaponry". with the season getting colder and wetter, I'm not biking as much, the worst tall bike crashes I have ever been in were not on the jousting field or the rodeo grounds, they happened in the rain while hitting ice or wet steel, I'm ready to get cozy and warm, lets have some java and have a good time.
Heres the page about it.
http://bikeportland.org/bikecraft

here are some links, Handmade
learn stuff
Chlorines page...just cuz she's cute

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