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A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
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5 comments:
I hardly qualify as an "expert" commentary but great to see that page about my friend, Charly.
Hope you and yours are well, Wade.
Jack,
The concept of this blog from the start is that everyone is an expert, and their thought is valuable. We have done a number of "Charly Baumanns" in the past. Yes, he was special, and I have rated his act, with the lights, music, presentation as the greatest of all time. It is something that can't be adequately described, even by the greatest press agent in the world. It have seen it was a rare opportunity, and it stays with you forever. I think it is important that folks today, are reminded, that that is where the bar used to be. When that bar is not raised, and instead ducked under, a profession is doomed.
Wade
Hi Jack & Wade
I recall a shop teacher who I
worshipped in my youth telling
us the meaning of "Expert"
An ex is a has been and a spurt
is a drip under pressure so put
them together and you get .....
"A has been drip under pressure"
With all due respect to Sheldon
Boyd from Jr High Shop
Chic,
I have always assumed that "cliche" was a "Feel good cliche" or "alibi cliche", like the one a never was coined that goes like this, "Better to be a never was, then a has been, reversed from "Better to be a has been, then a never was." "Feel good cliche's",or alibi's, reversible to suit the speakers excuse."
Wade
Certainly agree about the whole special "look and feel" of Charly's act. It is unforgettable. I never tired of watching it. Don't recall another act's music fitting together so perfectly.
I never hear the tune "Shangri-La" without my mind flashing to a picture of Charly's big tiger (was it Kismet?) in a hind-leg stand on the revolving mirror ball. Circus magic of the highest order.
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