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🎃 🍁 🤡 October: Pandemonium Progress Report

Dear reader,

When I left you last, September was cosplaying as August and I was in the belly of the beast with preparations for an updated performance of BARBETTE at a public showcase called SANS FILET at La TOHU....

☀️🍁🍏September: Pandemonium Progress Report

"September tries its best to have us forget summer." ~ Bernard Williams

Greetings, strange and wonderful reader. It's been a headlong sprint out of summer and into the first flush of autumn for me. I find myself , improbably, still in Mo...

MONASTÈRE PHOTO DUMP: Professional Photographers

hello there, you strange wonderful thing

I hope you enjoyed the audience-view peek at the latest update of BARBETTE. Thanks for the comments and feedback you left on the post or messaged me privately with; it's...

BARBETTTE DOES "LE MONASTÈRE"

My dear, strange, wonderful reader –  it's been a hot second.

Quite literally: the humidity in Montréal has been unrelenting. You feel like a wrung-out, sweaty gym towel just walking a couple blocks, downhill, in the s...

🎬 "VACUUM" performance • May 2024

Hello, my strange and wonderful reader! Well – strange and wonderful viewer, today.

As promised, here is the recording of my performance of VACUUM from May in Toronto. Just got the footage from the event videograph...

RE-STOCK (& discount code) – "Slow Circus: Barbette"

Happy Saturday, you strange, wonderful reader! SLOW CIRCUS: BARBETTE is officially re-stocked in 2024-06-01 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

☔️🌷May: Pandemonium Progress Report👹

Hello, strange and wonderful reader – this evening's long offering starts a brief reflection on recent days, and then offers you some re-caps on what's been going on in film/TV world, book-world, circus-world, world-world ... you get the picture...

📗 SNEAK PEEK 👀

As promised! A cheeky first sneak-peek at the inside pages of this labour of love - Slow Circus: Barbette.

I’m hard at work chugging away through making all the shipping labels for you pre-orderers — and finishing up night-shoo...

PREQUEL TO A PEEK 👀📗

Good morning everyone! It’s 4:55am where I am, and I just wrapped on another long chilly night shoot BUT — I wanted to share this little teaser with you because THINGS ARE HAPPENING on the book front!

I picked up my special, extra-fast ...

🔮 Changes: Towards a Well-Written Future

[1900 words, or roughly a 8–10 minute read]

Hey patrons,

What's working well in your life? What's not serving you so well anymore? What needs to change? What needs to stay the same? What needs more time before you can see that clearl...

☔️🌷 April: Pandemonium Progress Report 👹

Hello patrons! After a lovely rainy morning visit with my old pal Maui here, I’ve cooked up this overdue update post for us. Here we go!

Thank you guys so much for your kind words last week about Tournelle du Soleil– it bri...

📸 Album du Soleil

Good morning, lovely patrons! My sleepy thumb swooped down and posted this before pasting a short morsel of text back into the body of this post for you —!!! 

The last instalment of Tournelle du Soleil hit your inboxes mid-last week a...

[53] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • AFTERGLOW

The space is packed full of bodies singing, dancing, screaming, grooving, slurring, flirting, falling, tipping, beaming, swearing, meeting, being. Local drag queens periodically take a battered microphone from the DJ, snaking thro...

[52] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • POST-SHOW

“You were magnificent!” the businessman exclaims, arms spread wide as he cuts in amidst the other artists to stand next to me. He slides his arm around my waist, flashing watch and one well-manicured hand resting on the seam o...

[51] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • SHOWTIME [v]

The quick change– We didn’t tease the D-rings of the fly harness through–!

They should've been fed through the layer of the shorts and out the keyholes carefully cut and waiting in the starburst dres...

[50] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • SHOWTIME [iv]

The bottom edge of the LED screen, aligned with the lowest step on the staircase up to the stage, drops down to around 4’10” high. The 8” heels have made me 6’3” tall. And the crown atop this wig adds another 6", easily.

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