Practice staff

I want to make a practice staff. I've got a broom handle that's the right length and a nice feel, but it need to be a little heavier. I've seen people impale tennis balls on the ends and mount them with electrical tape, but I'm thinking there must be more than just the balls. Advice?

Playing dress-up

Keep it under your hat, but I'm getting a pixie cut (more or less), I have kickass tabi boots and I want to dress up for halloween as something that incorporates both of these features. I may also be dying a white streak into my hair--not bleached, but white/silver. Any ideas?

O!Circus! PLEASE READ THIS

Yes folks, O!Circus is coming to town. I've posted this riff to the following tribes - BaltWash, DC Burners, Spin Jam East Coast Style, and Circus. PLEASE PLEASE POST IT anywhere else where people who might come can see it--any circus-, dc-area-, poi-, clowning-, mime-, street-art- or neon-bus-related groups.

Here's what to post:



The Oberlin College Circus is going on tour!

Twelve circus performers will pile onto a veggie-oil powered bus (which happens to have a hot tub in the back) and unload at various cities in the Midwest and East Coast to share the madness, tomfoolery, raunchy humor and pent up sexual energy that circus performers were born to share.

Check us out at www.myspace.com/ocircus (be our friend!) to check up on our progress.

Here are the show dates and venues (this post is late; the handful of shows that have already occurred are omitted):

Columbus, OH: Monday 6/18
- MadLab theater: 105 north Grant Ave. - www.madlab.net/
- 7pm Jim's Flypaper with Anna and the Annadroids opens, 8pm us
- $15 at the door, and you will be turned away for lack of funds

Boston, MA: Wednesday 6/20
- Spontaneous Celebrations: 45 Danforth St. - www.spontaneouscelebrations.org
- 8pm The Boston Babydolls might open for us
- $10

New York, NY: Thursday 6/21
- Bowery Poetry Room: 308 Bowery. - www.bowerypoetry.com
- 8pm show inside and we're doing street performance outside before the show

Washington, DC: Sunday 6/24
- Palace of Wonders: 1210 H Street. - www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html
- 8pm
- $8

Richmond, VA: Monday 6/25
- Gallery 5: 200 West Marshall St. - www.gallery5arts.com/
- 8pm The Hotdamns and Punk Sinatra open
- $7