Great shows both days. Great rowdy western Pennsylvania crowds. Met Mia and Bella, Kira, Sarah, and got to say goodbye to everyone, even J.R... The Highlight of the weekend was the "Not Dead Yet" show on sunday night. We were tight. We were dangerous. We were backed up by the celtic band called "Celtic Commotion" and blew fire off the flaming drum. We had a final blast of 5 people on the stage. Very fun. Frank, from Cast in Bronze gave us a CD and is letting us use his bells in our promo.

It is time to detoxify. There are a lot of photographs coming so I will keep updating the site. Thanks a lot to the rowdy, fun people of western Pennsylvania.

Saturday was a full on rain day. Sunday started that way but cleared up a little. The people of western PA are downright hardcore. Both days had some crowds. J.R. and his family showed up to whoop and hollar. Temujin was at another event so there was some slots on the Rose stage that were filled by Flourish and Fool and by myself. Not being on the program in Pittsburgh means that very few people show up. The visitors here in PA plan the day according to the playbill and stick to the schedule. Dextre Tripp was present (after his New York gig) and watched a few shows. He is a hero and a legend, so I was slightly nervous. I received some great advice from him during the Sunday night dinner.

The "Not Dead Yet" show always has me excited, living through it leaves me feeling victorious. This weekend, Jules blew his first fireballs. We pulled off the rotating dragon while blowing and juggling fire. With both Jugglers balanced and hanging off my body, I spin in a slow circle (wearing boots with heels on a slippery muddy stage) and they juggle and breathe fire. Loved it. Got some pictures to put up. In fact, I received a few CD's full of images so There will be some updating that needs to happen to my gallery pages.

Blister Count:
Hands: 14
Lips: 1

The last weekend is next and on the final day, we are taking our final show up to the pipe and drum band for a jamming fire extravaganza.

The wind disappeared today. This meant that fire, within reason, was doing what I wanted it to. I had freshly wrapped torches and I blew nearly a gallon of gas. Anastasia Danger was there again! Darlene, her mother, had some recuperation time after a surgery and they were unable to make it on Sat.

We are now calling it "Not Dead Yet" show. The new 5:30 show is getting tighter. We have way more than enough stunts and moved rapidly through them without serious problem. Nobody caught on fire today! You can see some pictures of what we are doing in the galleries and galleria's. It is a real pleasure entertaining the western PA crowds.

The wind on the rose stage was steadyish at about 8 miles an hour. But it was coming almost straight at me. The only way to avoid the fire raking across my face while eating fire, or creating a fire plume, would be to perform with my back to the audience. Whatever I did, I was kissed by the dragon. I was "makin-out" with the fire all day. With that said, the shows were pretty darn successful.

There was an awesome pile of cool people that showed up. Anna and Kristina were visiting from Colorado and I really wanted to impress them. A very boisterous lad had his face all painted up like a skull on fire, he was so into it that I wanted to immolate myself just to watch him cheer. A little fairy princess sat in the front row and competed with him for enthusiasm. I will have to say that I missed seeing Anastasia Danger.

One of the cool moments happened right away at the opening gate. I stopped a couple of wee lads that reminded me of my little brother and I. The whole family were players, all in period garb and ready to go. I must have laid out at least 5 palm kills, crushing fire out with my hands. Then I lit my hand on fire and transferred the fire back to other torches. I lit my fingers on fire and did the same. I smoothly jammed a torch in my mouth and pulled off a 5 second plume that scorched my lips, Then I ate 2 torches and looked down at the lads. The littlest was staring, not quite comprehending what the heck was going on. But Raistlin cooly met my eyes and with a smart-aleck tone said, "O.K., what are you gonna do now?"

The "Flourish, Fool and I Show" was unbelievable. Inconceivable, amazing, astounding, astonishing, surprising, incredible, crazy, off the hook fire. Kelsey and Jules were juggling fire when Kelsey caught on fire. The fringy edges of the scarf she had tied around her waist were flaming up towards other, more melty clothes. "You are on fire! Drop the Torches!" exclaimed Jules and I. While Jules caught the flaming torches still coming at him, I grabbed a wet blanket and smashed her out. Quickly, I grabbed the dropped torches, handed them to her and said "The fire is out, now get back to work." They immediately went on as though nothing had happened.

We did some stunts that I may have mentioned in previous blog posts and all of a sudden they looked at each other. Some sneaky, excited, unspoken communication occurred. Next thing you know, Kelsey is doing a handstand off of Jules's knees. Jules hands me a torch and says, "OK, now light this torch and jamb it in her legs then blow a fireball off it." Holy crap. It completely caught me by surprise. But that is what this is all about, so I jammed the torch in her butt and blew a fireball off of it. Incredible danger-cool. More crazy awesome went down before the show ended. It was a great way to end the day! Ashley caught it on video and several people got great pictures that will be posted soon.

Once again we had a great weekend. Anastasia Danger showed up all Firey excited again. The shows went well. At the 5:30 shows we tried a new stunt with Kelsey standing on Jules shoulders. She is juggling fire, he is working a flaming hula hoop while I lay underneath and blow a fireball off the hoop! Fun stuff.

Met some new friends who visited a Wed. night spin jam with Steeltown Fire. David the fire breather of the group showed me a firebreathing stunt I had never seen before. Amazing Cool.

This morning I shook hands with the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Luke Ravenstahl, then I lit his hand on fire. Check out the video!