On Monday’s show 

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

it seems I’ve got the reflexive need to mention Flannery O’Connor’s works right now. But I can’t help it.

As I was reading her story (and my current favorite) The Lame Shall Enter First, I could not help but think of Mark Twain’s far more snarky comparative, Edward Stanton and George Benton: A Tale. I can at least see an influence.

Where tomorrow’s post will come in with me is: both of these pieces presciently lay out the EXACT, disastrously-ineffective and hilariously expensive remedial nostrums I am asked to employ toward the dysfunctional, criminogenicaly-inclined . . . um . . . “clients” today.

Short message: oiling the squeaky-wheel to the neglect of other wheels will still cause you heartbreaking delays.

Anyway. . .

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A small look

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

With permission from her family, here’s a little glimpse at one of yesterday’s moments.  Sort of an “in between crowds” performance for a little girl that thinks this old dude is pretty cool.

 

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It’s official. I am a fan of Flannery O’Connor

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I believe I’ll make this my shortest post ever with:

Nuff said.

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Performing for crowds–and enjoying what I do

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

IMG_5660I’ve been performing sleight-of-hand in some professional capacity for nearly 20 years now.  It really doesn’t seem like it.

I don’t do it every day anymore, but I’m still perfectly adept at it–and while recent videos would probably convince you that my skills in and of themselves are the things at which I am best in that situation, I assure you–they are not.

Working a crowd is.  Today was one of those days in which I had group after group transfixed between the tales of chicanery and deception, and the demonstrable performances that illustrate them.  And it’s days like these that I truly miss doing it as a matter of an everyday pursuit of my income–insofar as the idea of actually matching something I’m good at/love doing and income is still a bitter and seemingly unreachable plateau.

Anyway.  A great day, and as they say: “I killed em!”

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Proving my abject uselessness on the weekend

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Not completely worthless.  I have to head out to the Happy Valley Strawberry Festival and hector that masses with my card tricks.  Somehow, for the last few days, I’ve felt like someone took a broomstick and shoved a rolled-up sock through my ear and into my brain.

That’s not to say I couldn’t be creative.  But I’m plowing uphill to do it.  Maybe after three hours of stealing watches*, prodigious card skills, and otherworldly thimble-rigging, I’ll have some substantive foray.

Until then, enjoy this card trick from a few years back. And yes. I was fat.

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I’m Blaming Flannery O’Connor for that last bit of callow humor

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

$_1So I just finished reading Flannery O’Connor’s short story, A View of the Woods.  I need not say any more.  I had no idea that, the image I had in my mind of how O’Connor’s work was supposed to be like, versus what it is . . . wow.  Quite frankly, some of her stuff is downright frightening.

So, I’m going to say that my brief inurement on Flannery’s haunting prose MADE ME MAKE A VIDEO that appeared to demonstrate my head being blown off.

Yeah . . I know.  It doesn’t work.  But anyway. Back to books.

So the other day, I said I had named my protagonist. And today, I want to say what my character is like.  WHY–am I paranoid about sharing things?  I’ve noticed many authors are literally posting their work in giant swaths of words all the time, with no fear of being ripped off.

Seriously.  I need advice.

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I should have figured

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

that the visceral nature of a joke that DID SEEM FUNNY TO ME at the time may have actually freaked a few of you out.

I apologize for that.

That’s why I left in the part about where I sat back up and shut the camera off–sans head wound.

Anyway. Back to endeavors that do not replicate a ringing headshot from a Ghost Pine.

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Fishing near guns is bad

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

There is NO REASON for this kind of fooling around. You don’t have to tell me.

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Fishing

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I realize that this video in some way violates the extreme literary track that I’ve been on lately, but I can’t help it. Sometimes you just have to get away, and clear away the cobwebs in your own mind in order to get back to reading… Sort of like cleansing the pallet.

Anyway . . .

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Some days

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

 I love my Nook. 

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