Sunday in the Park

The nice folks at the CMU Juggle Club Invited us to join them. For what ever reason I did not take pictures of us juggling at CMU.

We did run into some folks working on slack lines over at the Carnegie Library in Oakland. To the left is Apprentice Brimage giving it a shot with one of the folks that were there. Leaning against the tree is his cousin and another Mr. Brimage. He is keeping an eye on the dinosaur statue.

As has become tradition while we are in Oakland we stop at the Chinese Buffet for lunch.



We also brought a set of stilts with us so that folks could get a try at those as well. Here is the group in front of the Stephen Foster statue. Left to right is Mr. Brimage, Miss Brimage and Mr Brimage on the stilts. We decided that Dippy was not much o a threat because he is after all a statue. Moments fter this picture was taken our bus showed up. It was great fun getting Mr Brimage out of the stilts in enough time to get on the bus.

Pasta and Magic

The Clown Brigade went to the Spaghetti Warehouse in the Strip District last week. A very nice local Magician named TJ was performing. If I was paying more attention I might have got some picture of the magic show. Still here is a few of the Brigade members.

This is Cadet Miller. This is also the face of a young man that does not like to bothered while eating.

This Cadet Miller Patiently waits for his food.

On the left is Apprentice Brimage in the middle Sergeant Wilson and to the right another Apprentice Brimage. I am not sure they wanted me to put this picture up.


Sergeant Wilson, happy as always.


This is yet another Apprentice Brimage.


This is soon to be Junior Clown Brimage. And yes there are quite a lot of Brimages

And yes this is yet another meber of the Brimage Huston Clan.He is their youngest Brother. In the show we are currently working on he is the one we are sticking in a box. And apparently he is not happy about it.


Well I would like to thank TJ and the Spaghetti Warehouse for a memorable evening.

Wigs and Other Stuff - A Report by Apprentice Brimage

This is Apprentice Brimage. She took most of the pictures in this post. She did not take this picture because her arms are not that long and I have not figured out how to use the timer on the camera. She probably knows how to use the times but I did not think of that at the time. Her great uncle was Albert Einstein.


We have some wigs given to us by a couple of the clowns from the local COIA Alley. I am not sure they want to be publically linked with this crew so I will not share their names. I imagine they have carears to think about. from left to right is Sergeant Thurman, Apprentice Brimage and Sergeant Wilson. The two Brimages are related. The blue shirt are Junior Clowns the rank above Apprentice. We just figured out at the meeting the second Apprentice Brimage should have been promoted to Junior Clown six months ago.
This is the Apprentice Brimage that should have been promoted. So imagine that she has a blue shirt. She is very patient. By the way the patient is an inside joke thing.


This is me in the purple shirt saying something terribly important. You can tell it is terribly important because no one is paying attention. Cadet Miller is to the right and Sergeant Thurman is explaining something about balloons to someone off camera.


Well goodnight from the Steel City Clown Brigade. Thank you to the COAI folks and Apprentice Brimage for taking these pictures.

Show at the Propel School

Friday June 12 we had a very nice little show at the Propel School. Thr Propel School is a Charter School that is Physically next to The Salvation Army in Homestead. It is also a school that several o the Children from the Corps and Sergeant Proileau attends.

This is Popie and Apprentice Brimage outside the Propel School just before the show. As you can tell the both of them are adorable. And they took a moment for a picture just after we set up.

This was the first time that we ever did anything other than a stage show away from The Corps. We used four hundred and 98 Balloons. That is a crazy amount of Balloons to use in under five hours. It is not something one clown could do. It is also a testament to the skills of these young clowns and the training they have done.

This is a Picture of Alakazi working on a Snake for a young man during the show. I figure that she personally use around one hundred and fifty of the balloons. That mean that we was working at the rate that you would exspect a Jr. Clown from the Circus to work at.

She may not look like she is Happy but she is happy on the inside. It is sort of unfair to take picture of us while we are doing ballon with thrity kids waiting for their balloon. The reality is that we can look happy the majority of the time. And at that split second when the picture is take you have a frustrated look because of a balloon you are working on. Well nothing is perfect. Still we had fun at the show.