We just finished doing a bunch of corporate gigs for SGI. When I say, "bunch," we did three in one day. They put up a tent in Mountain View and brought everyone in in shifts. It was over an hour show, up top Teller played the theremin and we did "Girl to Gorrilla" but changed Teller into an SGI cheese in an alien mask. It was a good trick for them. Then at the end of the show, we did 20 minutes of our stuff, HandStab, Needles, Knife Throwing. It went really well. They were nice crowds and they really seemed to like us.

So, we were sitting in a trailer and then going to work in a tent. It was the old days. It was amusement parks and Ren Fests. It's much harder to do this kind of a show than to do 3 full shows. You just never get really on, and you're never really off stage. The whole day is in the odd area, where we're a little jacked up, but not really ever getting going. It was fun, and we did good work, but it was very odd.

But, the SGI cheeses were great, the audiences were great and we sat in the trailer and talked a lot. It was back to juggling at Great Adventure, except we were treated a lot better and made more money. But, it was real showbiz.

Penn

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