Take what you need

and give the rest back - a clown school dispatch

Dear reader,

What do you reckon that a graduating project would look like in clown school?

Images of big shoes and squirting flowers come to mind.

While in clown school, every day was filled with discovery. Every dawn brought with it something new.

Our culminating project?

We created a ten act vaudeville show and toured rural Northern California.

Humboldt County California is a pretty neat place.

Most of the signs by the side of the road are either filled with bullet holes or featured stickers that read US Government OUT of Humboldt County

The community radio station was called K.M.U.D.

They would provide C.A.M.P. updates.

At any given time they’d alert locals about where the Campaign Against Marihuana Planting helicopter was working.

They were a fairly independent kind of folks up there in the hills.

One town we performed it - it may have been Petrolia, or perhaps somewhere else.

Upon entering town, we were greeted by the matriarch. She was about five feet tall and had blonde - grey hair. She…