I really am so much more normal than I have any right to be...in a good way I suppose! Yesterday I sat down at my favorite park in Bellingham with my crazy parents (I say lovingly) with all the other crazies in Bellingham watching something so insanely odd, but so normal to me. I listened as my Dad sung along to the songs and shouted out answers and clapped and cheered...and people wonder why I get a kick out of parades, and English comedy!
The 9/10 objects of Terror that were death-defyingly juggled by the Flying Karamatsu brothers were as follows:
1. Dog tenderizer (meat cleaver) sharpened to "kill" the cultural symbol of destruction (a big mac).
2. An exact replica of Yo Yo Ma's 1st cello (a ukalale)
3. A tiny french skill (skillet)
4. An egg (or ouef if you're speaking Spanish?...strange circus I attended)
5. The enemy of all those with high blood pressure of which we are constantly assaulted...a salt shaker.
6. A fire stick (aka torch)
7. A noble carp feigning from the waters of Bellingham, dying of natural causes of course.
8. A small build your own chicken kit.
9. Frozen CO2 whose natural habitat includes ice cream trucks and rock videos...on one was harmed in the removal of this speciman.
10. A living and terrifying time bomb...Andre the Beer of Champagn...shaken of course!

I also met Captain Splashy Pants whose pants are the ocean and his vessel the Moist Cravass...unfortunately infested with crabs. And the holder of his mast, Admiral Fancy pants with her skipper Goldie, who is of course a live goldfish. I saw the fairies of Bellingham dance to a song by the one and only Fiesty Mama...and witnessed the double quadruple lap dance of doom performed by perfect strangers. I met golden nosed clowns, who have received this highest honor from France...who thankfully taught clowns to be entertaining, not horrifying...and apparently did how them the magic of technology or microphones. The Women of the Future performed a social commentary about fish, eyelashes and men and women. Noodleini and his band of little noodles performed a rather unorthodox juggling act. Raven Scarlett Rose performed an Earth Day Rap that she equated with a cross between Queen Latifah, John Lennon and a rubber plant...which was oddly disturbing and not remotely talent based. The Tune stranglers were anything but that, but had a tribute to chickens which all present felt was appropriate given Bellingham's extreme love of poultry. Our one and only Kevin Murphy read some of his poetry including his successful and failed versions of his ABC poem...hilarity was had by all...minus the children who either did not understand the large words or who had obviously failed the WASL :) And then finally the Terror of the Flying Karamatsu brothers followed of course by their anthem, the Teddy Bear's picnic...
just another normal day in Bellingham...oh don't forget your fairy wings on the way out of the park please!