For A-bomb:

This always works to cheer me up:


Also, the Gaelic word of the day supplied by myself and therefore subject to being wrong, is "Cara" (friend).
Awr.

Gaelic it up. You know you want to.

Devotees will notice that to the right of this here bunch of words is a new widget, found after a series of synchronous internet searches, that will bequeath to you a new word in Irish every day. This is in honor of the swinging hoop act I am debuting tonight in its first form, a love song to Ireland itself, at the Circus of Dreams matinee. I may even supplement our mutually growing vocabulary with a word of my own now and then, learned on travels and dug out of the dusty burrows of my Irish travel notebook #1. Most if not all of these supplied by myself will have been copied into said notebook in pubs by locals I managed to convince to let me drink with them.

For example one such event, I was with a table of three Irish students who had just received a degree of some sort, this was in Galway circa 2004. Mikey, a young guy from Wexford whom later on ended up walking me the 1.5 miles to my sometime lodgings (awr) and Louise a young lady with excellent humor, and Scone, who got his name after once drunkenly asking to be brought back a treat from the store, then flying into a rage when the treat turned out to be a scone.
This particular phrase is from Scone:

Tá gach duine ar meisce. (taw gahk dinna ahr MESH-kah)

This, fittingly enough for the time, means "everyone is drunk." At least, it probably does.

I'll have something sweeter for you tomorrow.

BradbotBradbotBradbot...

So, a couple weeks ago I shot a video for Xbox with these hot mamas:



That's the amazing Tanya Brno, Sailor Kate Kirkland, yours truly, and Lauren Engelhorn of Ringling Bros., about to kick Major Nelson's ass. And it was a very kick ass day indeed. This video is for The Adventures of Captain Smiley, and it went live today on the Xbox channel which is just about the coolest thing that's happened to me today. For those sans Xbox like myself, I was thrilled to get a hold of this handy link where you can see our awesome commercial:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/insidexbox/video/majorsminute/default.htm

Make sure you watch til the end when Lauren jumps off a building.

And seriously, those Parkour guys are forces of nature. Shedangy!

Circus of Dreams

It's that time again, time to see some excellent performers do their thang for a very good cause. Circus of Dreams was created by Jenn Wrenn to raise money for pediatric brain tumor research and has become a smashing success year after year.

Click here to buy tickets: HERE.


I'm honored to be performing alongside the likes of Blaze Shaffer, front-bending contortionist and gravity defying pole dancer, and another Pacific Northwest Vau de Vire satellite performer; as well as Terry Crane, Tanya Brno, and a whole bunch of other excellent people I haven't met yet.

I'll be performing in the Saturday matinee, debuting a new swinging hoop routine, dedicated to the land of Ireland, which has been so adept at ripping out my insides and showing them to be (and I mean that in the best way EVER). I'll be accompanied by Rick May, Irish musician extraordinaire and a fine gentleman to boot.
I'm hoping for a fog machine since that would just be the jam.

So if you're in Olympus and want to see if I can pull off my neck hang, hop over to get a ticket and help out a bunch of kids.

Harvests and Aerial Photogs.

As the third harvest approaches (that's Halloween for all you non-pre-Celtic-Paganism-types), I find I am still finding little treasures from the busy month of August. For example I just received the images from a stock photo shoot I had with Thomas Barwick, alongside the magnificent Tanya Brno:

Weeee!




I love this one cause I can't actually remember or locate where the fabric is holding me up:



Blank background aerial shots are incredibly hard to get. Thomas, Brooke, and especially Tanya, you rock so hard. Thank you!