Juggling
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Mary - what are your thoughts? And what's a busker?
I've been meaning to post this Chris Bliss video forever. First saw it on my friend Mary's site - and Maria posted it too - so you may have seen it. I've watched it several times - always entertaining!
Now this dude juggles to the same music - with 5 balls, not 3! I just read a lot of the comments on this Jason Garfield video, then watched both videos again back-to-back. I don't know spit about juggling. But I suppose I can agree that Chris is more entertaining, more in sync with the music but technically, Jason is a better juggler. But mostly I found them both entertaining.
Mary - what are your thoughts? And what's a busker?
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Yesterday, I received these two birthday cards from Helen. I laughed out loud.
Inside: That doesn't actually spell anything. I just thought it'd be funny to frustrate you a bit. Old people are funny like that. Happy Birthday.
Then Helen writes: Now, now - play nice! Remember you have to set a good example for me and the GSta (Gretchen's rappin' stage name) for how to graciously turn 50!!!
Helen writes: Come to FL, you can live with the other AARP crew in the trailer park. Me 'n' Gretchen will come by to redneck it up for ya.
If you are reading Gretchen's blog, The Year in Red, you know she writes a lot about her experiences in Florida with her friend Helen. Gretchen works with Helen and stays at her apartment every other week and they are great friends. Gretchen talks about me to Helen and she talks about Helen to me so now Helen and I consider ourselves friends.
Yesterday, I received these two birthday cards from Helen. I laughed out loud.
Inside: That doesn't actually spell anything. I just thought it'd be funny to frustrate you a bit. Old people are funny like that. Happy Birthday.
Then Helen writes: Now, now - play nice! Remember you have to set a good example for me and the GSta (Gretchen's rappin' stage name) for how to graciously turn 50!!!
Helen writes: Come to FL, you can live with the other AARP crew in the trailer park. Me 'n' Gretchen will come by to redneck it up for ya.
It's no mystery why Gretchen and Helen get along so well and have a ton of laughs. They are two funny women. Gretchen and I come by our senses of humor genetically. While at the birthday cake eating festivities at Mom and Dad's house on my birthday, Mom said something so funny I darn near snorted milk out my nose. (Of course I have no idea now what it was she said.) Boy, I haven't had a good milk snorting in forever. It used to be a regular occurrence for me as a youngster. Come to think it, maybe that says more about my inability to swallow properly, than it does my family's sense of humor.
posted by Stefani at 11:38 AM
8 Comments:
Love those cards!
Spectacular juggling! Thanx for sharing those videos.
I think we must adopt Helen, she is a perfect fit for our family. Love those cards from her. As Gretchen always says when I ask how she finds these fun people that she associates with, she says "birds of feather, flock together"
I prefer to think of it as a harmonic convergence that we all find each other (in my warped world, this balances out those people I find when I am being flypaper for freaks). Wait 'till you get a gander at the cards for Gretchen. After all, she will soon be very very much older what than I'm. hee hee.
I don't want to admit how long I tried to figure out what that first card said. Then I gave up and scrolled down. Doh! I love that card!
Jason Garfield did that video specifically to show off the fact that he's a better technical juggler than Chris Bliss. And he is, no doubt about it. But personally, I think he's also an ass. He thinks anyone who doesn't juggle at least five balls isn't worthy of the term "juggler". Feh. It's his attitude that annoys me -- his skill is undeniably amazing.
What I love about Chris Bliss is that fact that the juggling is like another instrument -- it blends with and enhances the experience of the music and makes it more sensual. It's not calling attention to itself. Garfield's piece, to me, is more like "Hey, look at this difficult juggling, which I'm doing in time to the music."
And oh yeah! A busker is a street performer.
Mary, that was definitely the majority opinion of the comments left on the Jason piece. And after I went back and watch both videos back-to-back, I see that Jason's routine wasn't all in time with the music.
Did you read the introduction thing by Jason's friend, explaining why Jason did this? "Some crappy Beatles song" ???? Feh, indeed.
Thanks for your insight, my juggling friend!
Hey Sharon - I did the same thing - tried to figure out what that card said. "Oh cool - I'm pretty good at these things!" Then I gave up after line 2. When I showed the card to Steve and started to open the card to read the inside to him, "Hey wait, wait - I want to figure that out."
Old people are funny like that.
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