On the Road Again

(Why, hello August! You seem much nicer than July already! July was really quite a bitch.)

Its really quite impossible to post, when you're so busy (too busy to take photos), and even more impossible when you're sad and busy with sick grandfathers, and funerals. I know my audience here is limited to a select few, but for those of you who knew my grandfather (even for a moment), you knew how special he was to me. There were hundreds of people at the funeral/shiva, and that, I'm sure, is not even a fraction of the lives he has touched during his lifetime.

Shayna's visit was also overwhelming too, but it (above other things) reaffirmed how much I really need to live alone. And of course it was nice to see her again.

I've been in the studio a lot lately, but not for very long periods of time (those mosquitoes are either actually demons, or I am way too fucking delicate). I made a list of all the things I'm working on, and I'd really like to get most of them finished by the time I go to Boston&Providence in October. And definitely by the time I go to Ohio with Celia for Thanksgiving.

I've recently been sucked into the tornado that is Puppetyranny. I've mentioned them before, but I was asked to help with a performance at Vox Populi this past Friday. It turned out to be one of the pieces that I had seen at the Cabaret Naivete a few weeks ago, but it was great to be involved.

Puppetyranny presents Mystic Powers from Jeffrey Bussmann on Vimeo.

I'm on the left. Its actually pretty unfortunate that this is the one that got filmed: we did maybe 7 performances that evening, and most of them were very smooth, but this particular one, we got a new helper, unrolling the scroll. A little awkward at times, but you get the picture.

Also, check out the mouth puppets video!

Puppetyranny is putting on their Prequel to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens this weekend, and I've been told that I'll be selling admission. I already helped make the duck. Come show your support! Its looking really good.

And most recently, Nadav and Sam have asked me to design their ketubah, so I've started some sketches. Hopefully that'll be smooth sailing, and will bring in a pretty penny too!

And finally, I've just spent the last 2 hours posting a note on facebook, begging for dark hair donations, so I can FINALLY get a move on with the hair art, to sell at the mutter. SO, if any of you have dark hair, and are getting it cut, please send it my way. Much obliged.