Some adventures in the future

I've somehow gotten some rather strange obsessions tangled in my grey matter of late.

I'm sort of obsessing on some of them actually. So I suppose I need to formalise some of them a bit and then free up some space on my master list to plunk them in.

I think it started with the fact that two people I've got on facebook friends are in the line of stand up comedy. I watched some clips of up and coming comics and ... I could do that, I could do it better in at least a few cases.

Then I got thinking of weird routines and costumes and stuff like that, which got me thinking about where else strange routines get performed. It reminded me of carnivals and the street performers seen in california when I was younger.

I've got to find out if that sort of thing can be done around these parts and where exactly. I think it would be fun and a potential tourist site if there was a place for open public performance arts.

Which got me thinking about some magic tricks I've been playing at for a while but never really tried to do for show. I think it might be fun to try some magic routines.

Somewhere in there a descussion on one of my web boards got started about sideshows and freak shows of old, and I'm sad that they are missing from the world and that I don't have the chance to maybe participate. What with my desire to experiment with eating insect as a viable food source that my body might tolerate while it won't take normal foods (and maybe I can try some runcible foods too).

But at the same time I was pondering magic acts and performances I'd entertained the idea of cultural dances based on my heritage, and contact juggling and hat tricks. I discovered Native american hoop dance, I already knew about irish step dance, but I found Chapeaugraphy, and hat manipulation/juggling. and also an appeal toward poi and fire handling too.

I have no idea where all this sudden interest in performing arts is coming from.

This is just sort of the tip of the iceburg though and I need to set my sights on what I really would like to do and which could reasonably be stuudied this year.

But also on my plate is branching out in the audiance for my panels on alchemy and myth and such. There is a steampunk convention set for the end of March in a town near where I live. I've contacted about possibly running my panels for them. And they also seem to have an artist show going on that might be worth participating in.

Despite the lack of income I'm wondering if maybe I really am persuing my career. To be a roving jack of many a trade.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack