Friday, May 25th, 2007
ChocolateFest Day 1
I’m in Burlington WI today, and for the next three days performing at ChocolateFest. I met a guy from ChocolateFest at one of my gigs last year, and I actually tried really hard to get them to hire me… mostly because I had heard that there were mountains of free chocolate just lying around, waiting [...]
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
New Blowgun
I got my new blowgun in the mail this week: copyright Target Zone Sports, all rights reserved It’s just what I needed. In order to fit my old blowgun into my new prop case I had to cut a few inches off the front of it. I was hoping that 4 inches wouldn’t make much [...]
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
I Met a Yo-yo World Record Holder Today
This afternoon I had a really fun gig in downtown Indianapolis. It was for a party at RATIO Architects. Every month they have their 4th Friday at 4 Party, where at four o’clock snacks and drinks appear, and for the first time they decided to hire professional entertainment… that’d be me. Being at a place [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Lombard, Madison, and an Awesome Theater Tour
I had a gig Friday night in Lombard IL, followed by three shows the next morning for Kids In The Rotunda in Madison WI. The shows all went well and were fun to do. One of the great things about doing the Kids In The Rotunda shows is that since I grew up, and went [...]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
MadFest and Chris Bliss
Having just finished another great MadFest juggling convention I have come to a better understanding of why there was such a controversy over the popularity of the Chris Bliss video that swept the internet a while back. (If you haven’t already seen it, check it out here before you read the rest of this article.) [...]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Big Red Jugglefest, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
This last weekend I was in Ithaca NY to be the MC for the Cornell Juggling Club’s public show at their Big Red JuggleFest. It was a great time. First of all, juggling festivals are always great. If you don’t spend your time hanging out and talking with people, like I usually end up doing, [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
Good Times in Phoenix
Last weekend I had a great gig with the Smithsonian Institution that took us to Phoenix Arizona. In their ongoing effort to bring the Smithsonain to the people (instead of the people always having to go to Washington DC) they put on a huge event called Culture Fest, in Phoenix and the surrounding area, with [...]
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Rocky Ripple Neighborhood Festival
I performed in Rocky Ripple today. It’s the neighborhood that is just a little south of Broadripple… since I’m sure that you all know where Broadripple is. And yes, that’s it’s real name. It was a fun little fair. Very cozy, very comfy, with maybe 15-20 vendors and a small kids area. They had a [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Unintended Bonus Skills of Entertainers
In any career people develop unintended bonus skills that are not a part of the job description but are still a very important aspect of what you do. Teachers learn to listen to (and understand) multiple people talking at the same time, bartenders learn to read lips so they can still take drink orders when [...]
