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[oakenguy]

Toronto! Canadian city!
But the city don't know what the city is gettin'!
The creme de la creme of the clown world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner!

Sorry for the filking, sorry for the squeeing, but Toronto. Road Trip. TORONTO FESTIVAL OF CLOWNS (part of the 4th annual Toronto International Circus Festival, donchaknow). I've reserved the room at the hostel. It's really happening.

OMG, it's really happening. A city full of circus performers (well, okay, and the leatherfolks attending Folsom Fair North, and won't that be an interesting mix?), and one little Bostonian with a tailcoat and an oversized hat, right in the middle of it all.

I keep thinking of things that might go wrong. Not little things, either, things like "What if they search my car at the border and the previous owner of the car hid a big block of cocaine inside the wheel mount and the dogs find it and I get locked up as a smuggler?". Because I am insane. And freaking out. And it's still DAYS AND DAYS AWAY.

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[tendertalons.livejournal.com]

aw that is SO exciting! it would be terrifying to me, being surrounded by all those clowns, but you sound completely enthused. how fun!
don't worry about the cocaine either -- canadians are cool so they'd probably just ask you to give them enough for a couple of lines of the stuff or something. ; )

xox

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ha! The thing that really worries me is that apparently a lot of the clowns up there are 'bouffons', a term I had to google: they're sort of grotesque clowns who tackle taboo things. Which means a)they're the clowns even clowns are freaked out by, and b)that half-naked clown I saw a few years ago at the Mobius show, 'helping out' the Dresden Dolls by wandering around drooling cheese doodles, with b.o. so bad I could literally smell her from five feet away? Might have just been Canadian.