Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
A'lure Call of the Ocean
Here is the majority of the show. A couple bits were cut out. This was one of the more entertaining circuses I have seen this year.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
New Poll About Circus Animals
Go vote!
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/25/2009-07-25_pete_elephant_abuse_protests_dont_stop_ticketholders_from_attending_coney_island.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/25/2009-07-25_pete_elephant_abuse_protests_dont_stop_ticketholders_from_attending_coney_island.html
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A Growing Circus Movement in Ohio
In addition to tours of several circus companies throughout Ohio this year there are now two circus companies growing in Ohio. Of course my own Vera, the newest of the two, and the Amazing Portable Circus which can be seen here
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Columbia Brings P.T. Barnum’s Big Show to the Big Screen
For 81 years, P.T. Barnum lived to entertain. Now, thanks to Columbia Pictures, Barnum will continue to entertain audiences more than 100 years after his death. As reported by Variety, Columbia recently purchased an untitled pitch for a Barnum biopic from screenwriter Stan Chervin. Chervin was recently attached to the currently defunct baseball film, Moneyball.
Mr. Phineas Taylor Barnum holds a special place in the American psyche. The prototypical showman, P.T. Barnum brought the “Wonders of the World” to the United States at a time when most Americans knew nothing of what laid beyond their own towns. Granted, many of his exhibits were hoaxes, but that did little to take away from the majesty and mystique of the “Greatest Show on Earth.”
According to the report, the film will focus on P.T. Barnum’s “early years.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but a quick perusal of P.T. Barnum’s Wikipedia page shows countless possibilities for a movie. For instance, did you know that in addition to being one of the country’s richest and most successful showmen, Barnum also served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut for a year? Or how about this: Did you know Barnum was fiercely anti-slavery and a vocal supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment? Heck, I’d watch a movie that just explored the relationship between Barnum and General Tom Thumb.
What do you think? Does a P.T. Barnum biopic sound good to you? Any thoughts on potential casting? For some reason, when I look at that picture of Barnum, I keep picturing Jim Broadbent.
Source: /Film
http://screenrant.com/columbia-pt-barnum-movie-robf-17277/
Mr. Phineas Taylor Barnum holds a special place in the American psyche. The prototypical showman, P.T. Barnum brought the “Wonders of the World” to the United States at a time when most Americans knew nothing of what laid beyond their own towns. Granted, many of his exhibits were hoaxes, but that did little to take away from the majesty and mystique of the “Greatest Show on Earth.”
According to the report, the film will focus on P.T. Barnum’s “early years.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but a quick perusal of P.T. Barnum’s Wikipedia page shows countless possibilities for a movie. For instance, did you know that in addition to being one of the country’s richest and most successful showmen, Barnum also served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut for a year? Or how about this: Did you know Barnum was fiercely anti-slavery and a vocal supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment? Heck, I’d watch a movie that just explored the relationship between Barnum and General Tom Thumb.
What do you think? Does a P.T. Barnum biopic sound good to you? Any thoughts on potential casting? For some reason, when I look at that picture of Barnum, I keep picturing Jim Broadbent.
Source: /Film
http://screenrant.com/columbia-pt-barnum-movie-robf-17277/
Giant tortoise might belong to circus
MADISON (WKOW)-- A giant tortoise found in a Madison family's flower bed Tuesday morning could belong to a circus.
The Deleeuw family in north Madison near Cherokee Marsh found the 115 pound tortoise. They say they weren't looking for another pet, so they called animal control.
"I was just totally shocked at the size of it. In fact our son-in-law whose a landscaper tried to lift it, but he couldn't. It took two of us to lift it out of the spot and carry it into the van that carried it away," said Harry Deleeuw.
"It looks liek an African Spurred Tortoise or sulcata tortoise which is an North African species commonly kept as pets and this just happens to be a large specimen," said Dr. Kurt Sladky from UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Sladky says an African Spurred Tortoise is the third largest tortoise specimen in the world, but the largest of turtles kept as pets. The doctor estimates this one could be about 20 years old.
VFW Post 8483 called 27 news Tuesday night to explain they had hosted a circus a week ago, and the giant tortoise got away. They left contact with the post in case someone found it.
The tortoise is currently at the Dane County Humane Society.
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10726571
The Deleeuw family in north Madison near Cherokee Marsh found the 115 pound tortoise. They say they weren't looking for another pet, so they called animal control.
"I was just totally shocked at the size of it. In fact our son-in-law whose a landscaper tried to lift it, but he couldn't. It took two of us to lift it out of the spot and carry it into the van that carried it away," said Harry Deleeuw.
"It looks liek an African Spurred Tortoise or sulcata tortoise which is an North African species commonly kept as pets and this just happens to be a large specimen," said Dr. Kurt Sladky from UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Sladky says an African Spurred Tortoise is the third largest tortoise specimen in the world, but the largest of turtles kept as pets. The doctor estimates this one could be about 20 years old.
VFW Post 8483 called 27 news Tuesday night to explain they had hosted a circus a week ago, and the giant tortoise got away. They left contact with the post in case someone found it.
The tortoise is currently at the Dane County Humane Society.
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10726571
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids
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Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorists and repaired the economy and reversed all the bad unemployment trends, because how else could you explain the two of them introducing a law that would prohibit scientists from making mermaids and centaurs and Jersey devils and whatnot? Other than to conclude: these two senators are straight-up idiots, I mean? Who can say? Anyway, having just posted on Bigfoot, stand back as I try to WIN THE AFTERNOON with cryptozoology!
Glenn Thrush has all the news on the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009:
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) -- an ardent anti-abortion activist -- is worried that the Obama administration's loosening of restrictions on stem cell research will result in the creation of a new race of bio-engineered "human-animal" hybrid freaks.
Or beautiful mermaids.
The bill -- modeled on an inexplicably overlooked effort by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- would ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species."
OKAY NOBODY FREAK OUT: "The legislation, Brownback said, 'is limited in scope' and wouldn't limit the use of some animal parts for human use, including porcine pig valves." OKAY? Everyone is still allowed to get freaky with some "porcine pig valves." (Aren't all "pig valves" porcine?)
Anyway, Brownback called the measure "philosophical and practical." His worries seem to have stemmed from his "background in agriculture," where folks have been working to genetically modify soybeans. Naturally, Brownback concluded that if we weren't careful, this could lead to the rise of the Minotaurs, or a similar Dr. Caligari-type moment where we'd be "setting a time-bomb that might detonate many generations down the line," which would force the CIA to have to waterboard a human genome until it confessed to the whereabouts of the were-people.
Brownback and Landrieu have twenty co-sponsors for the bill, all of whom should be paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue while citizens mock them and throw pig valves.
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Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorists and repaired the economy and reversed all the bad unemployment trends, because how else could you explain the two of them introducing a law that would prohibit scientists from making mermaids and centaurs and Jersey devils and whatnot? Other than to conclude: these two senators are straight-up idiots, I mean? Who can say? Anyway, having just posted on Bigfoot, stand back as I try to WIN THE AFTERNOON with cryptozoology!
Glenn Thrush has all the news on the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009:
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) -- an ardent anti-abortion activist -- is worried that the Obama administration's loosening of restrictions on stem cell research will result in the creation of a new race of bio-engineered "human-animal" hybrid freaks.
Or beautiful mermaids.
The bill -- modeled on an inexplicably overlooked effort by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- would ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species."
OKAY NOBODY FREAK OUT: "The legislation, Brownback said, 'is limited in scope' and wouldn't limit the use of some animal parts for human use, including porcine pig valves." OKAY? Everyone is still allowed to get freaky with some "porcine pig valves." (Aren't all "pig valves" porcine?)
Anyway, Brownback called the measure "philosophical and practical." His worries seem to have stemmed from his "background in agriculture," where folks have been working to genetically modify soybeans. Naturally, Brownback concluded that if we weren't careful, this could lead to the rise of the Minotaurs, or a similar Dr. Caligari-type moment where we'd be "setting a time-bomb that might detonate many generations down the line," which would force the CIA to have to waterboard a human genome until it confessed to the whereabouts of the were-people.
Brownback and Landrieu have twenty co-sponsors for the bill, all of whom should be paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue while citizens mock them and throw pig valves.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
33° Monte Carlo - Dominic Lacasse - SF 1 - 2009
Truly incredible. I wish we had more acts like this in the states.
33° Monte Carlo - Dominic Lacasse - SF 1 - 2009
Truly incredible. I wish we had more acts like this in the states.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Milwaukee circus parade's future in peril
MILWAUKEE, July 6 (UPI) --
Organizers of Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade said the event's future is in doubt beyond this coming Sunday's parade.
William Fox, co-chairman of the Great Circus Parade, said officials have already decided not to hold a parade in 2010 and the event scheduled for 1:20 p.m. Sunday may be the last of the parades for several years, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
"The American economy must show signs of life" before the parade can gather enough funds to return, Fox said. "So for some people this parade on Sunday will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Fox said the last Great Circus Parade, which took place in 2003, cost $1.5 million to produce.
"I would love to see another parade put on, but we just don't know," Fox said.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
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http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/89777.html
Organizers of Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade said the event's future is in doubt beyond this coming Sunday's parade.
William Fox, co-chairman of the Great Circus Parade, said officials have already decided not to hold a parade in 2010 and the event scheduled for 1:20 p.m. Sunday may be the last of the parades for several years, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
"The American economy must show signs of life" before the parade can gather enough funds to return, Fox said. "So for some people this parade on Sunday will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Fox said the last Great Circus Parade, which took place in 2003, cost $1.5 million to produce.
"I would love to see another parade put on, but we just don't know," Fox said.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/89777.html
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
An Open Letter To Animal Rights Activists
To any and all animal rights activists that will read this. Attacking me online through anonymous attacks or even attacking me directly is one thing. But to start attacking my family who has nothing to do with the circus industry or my personal stances on animal issues is completely unacceptable. If you feel like vandalizing property, calling with threats, or anything along those lines please do it to me and not my family. To the activist who called this weekend leaving a nasty voicemail calling certain circus owners "whores" among other inappropriate language I hope you are happy that my 3 year old nephew got the message not me.
We obviously have differing opinions on circus animals. I would like you to treat me with respect and not vandalize my property as I would never go after your personal property or you for your beliefs, but going after my family who has no connections to this business is completely unacceptable. The authorities have already been contacted and one of the suspects is already feeling the heat of it.
We obviously have differing opinions on circus animals. I would like you to treat me with respect and not vandalize my property as I would never go after your personal property or you for your beliefs, but going after my family who has no connections to this business is completely unacceptable. The authorities have already been contacted and one of the suspects is already feeling the heat of it.
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