Where is Waldo?
Miles, Victor, and Nugget Norm
A stick bug takes the stage.
That was a spicey taco!
Hot Hot Hot!OK, Sunday, in spite of being the slowest day on the usual, was very eventful. The audiences were smaller but so was park attendance. (Next week will be insane.)
It has become a tradition that we are booked for a 10 am show on Sundays at Calico. That tradition also includes virtually no one showing up because the Christians are at church and the heathens are recovering from hangovers (no a joke down here). So with permission we canceled the 10 Am show. Instead we tried taking some fire-eating publicity shots. That attracted about 6 people over and that lead to me teaching a couple of men how to eat fire. I should mention that the first step in learning to eat fire is to get over the fear of having fire in you face. The first guy had no problem with that, the second couldn't overcome the fear. It was very funny to watch (for those busy bodies who are so concerned with others' situations when you should really be concerned about cleaning out your own closets I kept an eye on the men's safety).
A short time later there was a ruckus going on at the same spot where a lady had slipped and cut her leg badly a couple of days ago. Rangers were dealing with an injured kid. But unusually the first officials to show up were two sheriff cars. Then the ambulance. The kid ended up getting a neck brace and lots of bandages. Turned out it wasn't an accident, but a couple of teens had jumped another and beat him up. They were local boys. As one drove off in the ambulance the tow others did the perp-walk to the back of the deputy's car. The most action on a Sunday morning at Calico in a long time.
The blow by blow commentary of information was given to us by a local who plays an old miner at Calico, Nugget Norm. He knew the kids in the fight and said they were the local punks. He also had a ton of stories about Calico and the area over the years. The stories included a man on PCP who got into a fight with him and a bunch of other guys at an event at Calico several years ago. There was also the story about a man who decided to take the easy way out by running a pipe from his tail pipe to the interior of his car and how he found the car and the body on an old back road. Or how he and a PG and E guy found a man who found a man hanging from one of the service towers out in the desert. Or the time....well, let's just say he was a man who lived a very colorful life.
It's Halloween up here so there are costume of every type; montors, angels, animals, ghosts, ghouls, and even a Waldo. He sat and watched our show. In fact I saw him several times during the day all over the park....it's was the easiest "Where's Waldo" ever!
Clean up was easy this time around. We just had to load it all into the back stage. No trailer loading! WoooHooo! (Since we are coming back in 4 days.) The drive home was quicker too because we didn't have the trailer.
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