More Clown Practice

pictured here are three of our brave clown reading through a script for an upcoming skit. All of the kid here are Brimages.

This was fun and we will see how it goes together.

On other fronts we had a session of monday knitting. tis Monday we went trough the Brigade's Yarn Stash. This was not as much fun as knitting, still, it was something that needed to be done.

On the book front the book continues to hover around 400 pages. I am going to go from here and work on the book some more as i do in all my spave time.

Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.

Knitting Stuff - The Marley

The Monday Night Knitting group continued to meet in Homestead. Walt continues to work on his knitting Proficiency. He is almost done with that. It awesome to give out a knitting proficiency. 

 

This is Apprentice Brimage working on the Marley. The Marley is a long scarf project that got put on the back burner for building our set and training a whole bunch of new clowns. On the up side of having a bunch of new clowns we should be able to work on the Marley some.

  

Sergeant Thurman is working on the Marley over the edge of our stair case. It is nice being somewhere that has a staircase. It makes this kind of odd knitting maneuver easier.  

Also on the clowning front we had some promotions in the last week. Apprentices Thurman and Stewart are now Junior Clowns. We also have a new Cadet, Cadet Gable. She is thrilled, really she is. 

Also promoted was Walt. This is the first time that we have trained a Standard Clown from the ground up in the Brigade. As a matter of fact my wife is a Standard Clown. She has been clowning for years and already knew a bunch of stuff when she joined.  This is special time for someone like me. It is not every day that some gets to these loft heights in clowning. It makes me proud to be a part of his training. He is keeping the old ways going. 

Well I have to go the cat is having kittens. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.

Some Random Pictures

Well as promised I said I would post some pictures when I remembered to put my camera in a place that I could do that. Like before I am still crazy busy with the book and all sorts of other things. If I ever make money on the book I am going to hire someone to spell for me. They will follow me around and type things into a computer that are spelled correctly and has all of those punctuation things everyone goes on about. Well any way here are some pictures I pulled off the camera.
First up this is Apprentice Wilson. This was at out Christmas party and she had just made a giraffe. She tied it to a helium balloon and wanted me to take a picture of it floating. All of those pictures were blurry. Still, this one is cure.


This is an actual knitting picture on the blog. Yes i know I am using a machine. That is the difference between clown knitting and the rest of the world. WE need to get stuff done. I suppose you could say that it is goal oriented. Anyway this was the trim for a scarf that Walt has been working on for a while. Actualy he finished it a long time ago. He has been waiting for my to do the trim on the machine for a while. Well with the knitting in Homestead I left a machine in Homestead. Hopefully I will get these things done quicker that I have in the past


This is Apprentice Wilson on Stilts. This is first time on stilts and she is doing it on her own.
And yes she does look impressed with herself as she should be.
This is a picture from today. This is another long neglected project that we just had to get out of the way. This is the Clown Brigade's library. Well it is the start of it anyway. These books are some of the books that I clown will need to study while they are in training. Today we put card in them so that they can be checked out and we can keep track of them.

This is the front door of our officer, meeting and storage space. It is the old Quarters in the Corps. Walt made the sign. We think it is terribly funny.

This is the pipe tone organ half taken apart. I am still working on it. I am very hopeful that I will be able to stick it back togather.

Well I don;t know how many pictures the blogger thing will let me post. So I will not push my luck. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.

Walt is no Lady

At practice today we were tumbling. this is when we throw ourselves on the ground. Since it is not funny for an adult to punch a kid we do it the other way around. So the kids were pushing me over for a good por5tion of the evening. The young folks find this to a very cathartic time.

Anyway during this time one of the young Apprentices said this sentance. "Walt is not a Lady." It was entirely out of left field and I had to menion it here.

But the way I am sorry to suggest that Walt is unlady like. Still, this was the funniest thing I have heard all month. And when I asked the kid why she said this she simply shrugged as if it was obvious. Well I had to bring this to you for no good reason.

Oh an my Kettle is still empty, please fill. My Captain hits me with a switch every time I walk past him because my kettle is empty. I am getting chaffed.

Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.

Corps Knitting

We had our third Knitting Night at the Corps yesterday. I think at this point every young person in the Brigade is knitting except for one. At this point I believe half our congregation is knitting. It is odd how something that is some times scorned can be used for good. Those who know the road the Brigade and our ministry has taken personally will know what that means.

Onto other items having to do with the Corps the Brigade will be standing Kettle at Century III Mall this Friday and Saturday. We will not being face still we will be there juggling and doing balloon animals. It you happen to be out and about stop by and see us.

If you cannot get to the mall there is also the handy kettle on my blog here. I suppose dropping change in a bucket is easier than what ever you have to do to put money in a cyber kettle. Never the less it is all going to the same place.

For some reason blogger is not letting me up load pictures today. It does that from time to time. I have been working on some drawing of the ships in the books. I also have watched the first couple season of Space Battle Ship Yamato. My story does not take place in a time when Humanity is as technologically advanced as they are in Yamato. Still, the Navy in my book has ships that are more like ocean going vessels.

None of the ships are resurrected World War II ships. Still, they do have hulls fit the types that one might find in the Navy today. Poking around on the internet there are all kinds of sci fi stories about ocean going ships that can go into space.

My idea started as what i thought would be a natural progression. The Navy has ships so they would be the ones with ships in space. Also it would be easier for something the size of an air craft carrier to land on Water.

Fun with a Tank

Here we see a picture of a knitted clown hat in action. This is kiddo after a show we had in Tarentum a month or so ago. I was busy with the book so I did not post it.

Also it is not a hat a made. Walt made this one as part of his work on the knitting Proficiency. I do believe that this hat is made out of Comfort yarn. If it is not Walt will correct me in the comments.

He made the pom pom on the clover pom pom makers. They are a great little gizmo.

This hat is also an example of how artificial yarn is superior to natural yarns. You folks may have though I had forgotten about the war against natural fibers. No not me I still have the fight for a acrylic in my heart.

Also on the clowning from from that day is us visiting a part in Tarentum. It had this nice tank. So we thought we should climb on it and take a picture. Well that is what we think you should do when there is a tank sitting in your park.

They even had ropes set up around the tank. They kept everyone else off the tank so that it would be empty when we arrived. That was very considerate of them.

I have also noted that my on line kettle is not full. When I am standing kettle I usually juggle, do balloon animals or sing. This is hard to on the blog. I will take some vids of us standing kettle so you get the same experience. Normally my kettle is full in six or eight hours. It has been a day and there is nothing in my kettle. This makes me sad.

I have also noted that if I sing enough people fill my kettle faster. Well we will see. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.

More Links Here - Dudes Please Post - The Musical Scale of Evil

As I have mussed from time to time I am interested in how the Internet and the blogosphere works. To that end I have done some question asking and even experimented with this blog. One of the things that I looked into is where people who are reading this blog are from. I was amazed by the number of people from around the world that read this thing.

Recently I have been looking at the links between blogs. I have noted seven such links that link here. Most of these links have been put up in the last couple months. Of course visitors to this blog have increased since there have been more links. I suppose that is only to be expected.

One of the reasons that I started this was to connection to other people like me. To my surprise there are not very many male knitting clowns. Most of the clowns that trained me and were my friends were older. And it unfortunately it appears that generation is dieing off. As far as I can tell no male knitters or clowns link to this blog. Let alone male knitting clowns.

I wonder if that means that there are not any out there or are they simply not interested in using the interwebnet thingy. If there is anyone that is a male Knitter or a knitting clown please post. If my counter thing is correct there are fifty to eighty people seeing this thing a day. I am just curious if there are any Dudes or Clowns out there.

I suppose this really had very little to do with knitting. Still, it is something that has been on my mind. And I suppose that is the point.

I have also been thinking about redoing the blog. With the upgrade to the new blogger it keeps pestering me to update my template. They claim it is easier. I have experimented with it on The Judy Scarf's Blog. It is not pure evil. Although the new template editor is up there with David Hasselhoff singing on the evil scale. That is just bellow Celine Dion and just above Don Johnson singing.

By the way in case you are wondering the Musical Scale of Evil is as follows.

As one might expect Britney is at the top of the list. Her's was that hardest picture to find. Well I should say it was hard to find one that I did not think would scare the Children. So be brave little ones. She is of course as evil as it get.

Next is something nearly as evil, the Bradys. There is special place in Hell for the agent that thought this up. I thinks that place is a as Hitler's room mate. Hitler snores a lot. And he is apparently not fun to be around.

The next step is the new, and less groomed, grunge Vanilla Ice. He jumped on the Grunge band wagon about a decade after that fad was over. Thankfully almost no one noticed this phase.

Also no surprise it the singing Captain Kirk. Hey, I am a nerd and like Star Trek as much as the next awkward teen turned awkward adult. Still, old Bill will never be able to make up for what he did to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Of course he is on the list. All I have to say is floating head.

Yes the original Ice is here as well. This whole thing was just misguided. This is where rap died a horrible and painful death






Yeah, what can I say.







He did a Hobbit Song. What kind of Maniac does a Hobbit Song?

And here is Celine. She is not really evil. It is just the misery she has caused to millions of men that were dragged to a concert against their will.

Old Dave was not really that evil. It is just that cows got to vote on this list and he is responsible for nearly as many cow deaths as McDonalds. PETA called and they hope your Corvette backs over you.

I happen to like Don Johnson's singing. He is trying to hard here. Still, what can you do. At least he did not have a floating head in his video.

Well This was a pretty random tangent. I imagine you are used to it if you have read all the way down to this point.

Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ice.