Monday June 30th, 2008. Townsend, MA. 85 miles. Grass. Warm, chance of storms.
Open date. NO shows. We’ll play here tomorrow. KM is probably as polite as circus can be. The management never screams, or yells, or shouts. For the most part this is refreshing. But every now and then every tented circus needs somebody to play “bad cop.” Not sure if that ever happens here, and as a result some issues are never resolved. It’s sometimes said that much of the structure of a circus was borrowed from sailing ships. After all both sailing ships and bigtops are creatures of the wind as well as commercial enterprises. The discipline required on-board a sailing ship is significant. So too on a mudshow.
Open date. NO shows. We’ll play here tomorrow. KM is probably as polite as circus can be. The management never screams, or yells, or shouts. For the most part this is refreshing. But every now and then every tented circus needs somebody to play “bad cop.” Not sure if that ever happens here, and as a result some issues are never resolved. It’s sometimes said that much of the structure of a circus was borrowed from sailing ships. After all both sailing ships and bigtops are creatures of the wind as well as commercial enterprises. The discipline required on-board a sailing ship is significant. So too on a mudshow.
