For seven years I owned a bookstore called The Raconteur, before that I led a New York theater company called Bon Bock, but all I ever really wanted t

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For seven years I owned a bookstore called The Raconteur, before that I led a New York theater company called Bon Bock, but all I ever really wanted to do was run a circus, so...

RACONTEURS & ROUSTABOUTS: Where Culture & Carnival Collide! Live & Inside!

Clay

8 PM, Fri, Feb 1

Get there early and watch the H.A.T. side show upchuck fifteen foot flumes of flame into the blue black sky outside the theatre! Then stay for the carnie stories, the haunted ditties about side show sins, the rockabilly and ragtime, the samurai sword swallowing and the whirling power drill insertion.

$20 @ The Hamilton Stage

Click HERE for advance tix!

Featuring sideshow extraordinaire Honor Amongst Thieves (who, as we understand it, plan to juggle and simultaneously shave with recently stropped machetes, insert a variety of meat hooks and power drill bits into their (surprisingly accommodating) nostrils, swallow a series of samurai swords and illuminated neon tubes, and maybe even escape from a sloshing glass box known as the Chinese Water Cell).

"And the raconteurs and roustabouts said 'Buddy, come on in.'" Tom Waits, Small Change

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Also performing, vaudevillian tusk tickler (i.e. piano man) and villainous thing Shayfer James (with the singing saws of Sarah Zar); psychotropic outlaw rocker, one time professional wrestler, former High Times editor, and the author of Dirty, Dirty, Dirty, his highly praised post-gonzo history of pornography, zombie walker Mike Edison (w/ former Sonic Youth drummer and Pussy Galore percussionist, Bob Bert); and Boss couture model-cum-folk singer (think Carla Bruni meets Cat Power) Francesca Tedeschi (left). Rounding out the troupe, freakcentric fabulist and renowned "rodeo clown," Clay Mcleod Chapman (upper right), creator of the frequently perverse, occasionally petrifying Pumpkin Pie Show.

Plus a handful of exciting surprise guests (to be confirmed and announced in the next few days; stay tuned)!

Oh, and I'll be reading an original story about a Chinese giant and a tattooed ten year old who are, you guessed it, private detectives!

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H.A.T. fireeater, Jersey Lily, prepares to ingest.

Click HERE for Shayfer's "Villainous Thing." Click HERE for Clay Chapman's "Late Bloomer." Click HERE for Mike Edison's "I Walked with a Zombie..." Click HERE for Tedeschi's "Birds."

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Piano man Shayfer James tickling his tusks and belting his sins.

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