Dear readers, I got a promotion ( Read more... )

Very very late on Friday night, so late that it was early Saturday, I performed a new aerial act for the first time this year. I stepped out of the tissu and picked someone to flirt with. I stayed in character, varied the rhythm of my movements, and pulled different elements out of the music. Onlookers reported that my toes were pointed and my ( Read more... )

Do you remember that one time I came back from a Stripmall Architecture show and I said that it was good, but what I really wanted was for Halou to get on stage and play all of Wiser from start to finish? On Saturday at the Cafe du Nord, this is exactly what they did. If you were not there, I assume that you were somehow immobilized ( Read more... )

2011 has not been an auspicious year for my hobby. First, I got sick and missed performing at the Soviet show. Then the Very Serious Circus School had Very Serious Financial Problems, so I switched schools. None of the really good teachers are teaching anymore, so classes have devolved into an open gym environment, where I work out on my own for an ( Read more... )

I own a lot of clothes ( Read more... )

Yesterday in my aerials class, I did a meat hook on the trapeze. Then I switched and did it again on my less-strong side. As usual, unless you are an aerialist, these words are meaningless to you. Even if you are an aerialist, there is no standardized nomenclature for these tricks. I've heard mermaid called "merman" and "poisson" and "fish," and ( Read more... )

Today, I did four pull-ups ( Read more... )

As I was walking home last night, I came across one of those SOMA junk heaps: old printers, half-disassembled PC towers, and packing material all loosely tossed together near some convenient Folsom St. doorway. I don't usually investigate junk heaps, often because I am afraid that some homeless person has already used it as a toilet, but this time ( Read more... )

Today my dream job asked me to marry it and I said yes ( Read more... )