Hello everyone whose bothered to keep up with this,

Allow me to begin the return of my blog which has been on hiatus since India for the simple reason that there wasn't a gigantic amount of my life that was worth writing about (at least nothing that I'd post on the internet). Here's a brief summary of how things have been since my return from the far east.

Performances are in this season. I've had quite a few since coming back to California such as juggling at a Gothic fashion show, roving around a end of school festival in mountain view, teaching children how to juggle during their field day, dancing at the Mission Art Project, and spinning fire at a Martini party. The last bit was one of the stranger performances I've gotten involved with. The gig was with fire pixie and was at a house that made Scrooge McDuck's mansion look like an airplane bathroom. Seriously, there were fountains inside the house along with 30 very drunk middle aged women I had to "entertain". The Mission Art Project (map) was a bit more satisfying artistically. Mumu and I choreographed a 5 minute dance/clown piece with her chair, my D-lites and poi, and sparklers. That was the last act to Mumu's 30 minute show "11 feathers abajo agua" which went over very well when all was said and done.

The first weekend in May found me at fire drums up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Many of you were probably there anyway, so I don't have to expand on how awesome it was. I was spinning fire everynight although I was never quite able to make it to dawn. The mountain temperatures made crawling into my sleeping bag fairly inviting. Speaking of frigid mountain festivals, Mutantfest was also a blast. The highlights would be too numerous to list here, but for me, nothing beats waking up that first day, and seeing a 195 lb man, obviously under the influence of chemical agents, nude as it gets, running around screaming at the top of his lungs absolute nonsense. I'd feel bad for him if it wasn't so goddamn funny. When he collapses face first in the mud, we were initially concerned and were considering helping him until we saw his naked ass start to dry hump the grass. Surreal or obscene? You decide.

Speaking of painful images, birthday parties have been another staple portion of my life. June has seen me entertaining at more birthday parties than almost the last three months combined. The good news is, I'm making bank. The bad news? I'm going out of my mind. When you're hired to be a Cowboy for three hours on a Saturday morning with limitied bathroom breaks, you'd start to feel burnt out too.

Anyway the real reason I've revived this blog, is not to regale you with tales of naked maniacs or tedious birthday parties, but rather to inform everyone that for the next 2 months, I'll mostly be on the road with my summer adventure of 2008. It starts this Independence day where Bri and I will be in Mt. Shasta helping out with their 4th of July festival and street performing along the way. After that, A Different Spin rides again in Toronto for Orangeville's annual founder's day. A week after I get back from that, I'm off to London, Wales for the Play Festival, Amesterdam, Karlsruhe for EJC, and then I finish everything off at Burning Man 2008. So, seeing how everyone seemed to enjoy reading weekly updates from India, I'll try to be making weekly updates on this summer.

Mt. Shasta looms ever closer to me right now and Bri and I have spent the last few days working quite hard on a street show to take there. The show right now is mostly me talking and pulling volunteers out of the audience to humiliate. It's been a tad stressful, but I'm confident the preparation will be worth it. The show ends with me on a pile or broken glass and Bri juggling knives on top of me. If that's not worth a fiver I don't know what is. Well, hopefully next week I'll be writing good things about that adventure. Until then I hear a bed calling my name. Hope everyone enjoys their summer in their own way. See each of you soon.

I cut my hair!
Alex