Super Fun Press Release

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February 24 Means Super Hot Cheap Fun Variety

The Super Fun Variety Show returns with a radical underground circus cabaret, Sunday Feb 24, during the Hot Cheap Living performance festival that marks the end of the famous Living Theatre’s residence at 21 Clinton Street.

Super Fun Variety, launched in 2011, is committed to an irreverent spirit, a strong social consciousness, and an environmentally and creatively sustainable local community. Previous shows have sold out to standing-room-only crowds and featured top-flight talents, including world-renowned variety performers, internationally acclaimed circus artists, award-winning literati, and the 2012 Academy Award-nominated film short, “Time Freak.” Impose Magazine calls us “an incredible array of talent ranging from the silly to the sublime.”

Hosted by sibling ukulele sensations Ellia and Josh Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Cobra Gold), February 24th's Super (Hot Cheap) Fun Variety Show features a panoply of circus performers, physical comedians, acrobats, musical acts, bicycle arts activists, and more, and is paired with a show by Brooklyn-based ragtime-punk sextet Apocalypse Five and Dime (the perfect soundtrack to what happens after the world ends). With:

• Laura Witwer & Chris Delgado, sense-defying physical feats!
• The Good to Go Girls, hips that launch ships, wiles that crack smiles!
• Sabrina Chap, salacious, sultry chanteusery!
• Mistress B, your verst nightmare, or perhaps your zeekret fantasy, ya?
• Charming Disaster, songs to inspire and confuse!
• Cobra Gold!, songs to befuddle and amuse!
• Ambrose Martos, clowning to split sides and break hearts!
• New York Bike Dance, stealing hearts, riding bikes!
• A 9pm full set by Apocalypse Five and Dime!
• And many more indescribable wonderments!
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WHAT: Super Fun Variety Show
WHEN: Sunday, February 24, 2013
WHERE: The Living Theatre
ADDRESS: 21 Clinton Street, NYC
FESTIVAL WEBSITE: http://hotcheaplivingperformancefestival.yolasite.com
DOORS: 7:00pm
TICKET PRICE: $10
TICKET LINK: http://bit.ly/superhotcheapfun
PRESS CONTACT: Josh Bisker
E-MAIL: SuperFunVariety@gmail.com
SHOW WEBSITE: www.superfunvariety.com

A Super Cub Comes to New York

A Super Cub C70 sighted in New York City! I love, love, love these little bikes. They're ubiquitous around Japan, indestructible, super comfortable, and adorable. I got to ride a friend's family's cub around all of Western Japan in a series of increasingly madcap adventures, and miss the thing as if it were a friend I'd left behind there.

Three-stroke cyclical clutch, nary a maintenance issue ever, hilariously good fuel economy, and SO CUTE. The speedometer on this one goes to 55 kph. Adorable!

Super (Hot Cheap) Fun

Coming soon to a (Living) theater near you:
the Super Fun Variety Show!

Sunday, February 24 @ 8 pm 
Part of the Hot Cheap Living Festival

at the Living Theater

Mark your calendars, people.

Featuring:
The Good to Go Girls
 Laura Witwer & Chris Delgado
Sabrina Chap
Mistress B
Cobra Gold!
Charming Disaster
& many more indescribable wonderments!

Followed by a 9pm full set by
Apocalypse Five and Dime!

Queer Comedy Film Shoot in My Bathtub

I can't say it's not a dream come true: As I write, a crew of hilarious and awesome lesbian film makers are shooting a bathtub scene in my house for a comedy short. It's happening mere feet away from my desk. Sometimes I wish I weren't cursed with the sense of personal / professional decorum that's stopping me from just wandering on by. As it is, I remain here day dreaming.

Tantalizing, impassable boundaries aside, it's super wonderful to have a dozen really exuberant creative people in the house sharing this space to make something hilarious happen. How do I get this to come true here on the regular?

Hear ye, people of the internets: my house,  backyard, bathtub, and more are yours for the creative projecting! Come here and make amazing things!


Nudity-intensive projects not required. But always appreciated.

Mermaids on Parade

On my way down to the parade to join the Hungry March Band! These girls let me use their compact on the train to do my makeup

Massaged Kale!

How do we feel about our massaged kale salad dinner, with avocado chunks and toasted sunflower seeds? We heart it. Clearly. Thank sister Bisker for the link. (And to the fabulous Annelise and Paul in San Francisco for making it for us last summer when I visited!)

Super Fun Variety: April Extravaganza!

FEATURING: 

• Carla Rhodes & Cecil Sinclair: vexing ventriloquism!
• Rob Lok: death-defying daredevilry!
• Adam Kuchler: physics-bending feats!
• Jeff Seal: side-splitting comedy!
• Chris Gethard: violence, tears, and literature!
• David Boyd: mystifying magic!
• Zero Boy: sound-trip storytelling!
• Dale Seever: shocking spirit portraits!
• Paris: heart-stopping hip hop juggling !
• The Bad Advice Column: exactly what it advertises.
• Sweet Soubrette: songs to inspire and delight!
• Cobra Gold: songs to befuddle and confuse!
• And more! 

WHAT: Super Fun Superfund Variety Show
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2012
WHERE: Film Biz Prop Shop
ADDRESS: 540 President Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11215
VENUE WEBSITE: filmbizrecycling.org 
DOORS: 8:00pm
SHOWTIME: 8:30pm
TICKET PRICE: $8 - $12 Sliding Scale (includes 10% off Film Biz coupon)
E-MAIL: SuperFunVariety@gmail.com 
SHOW WEBSITE: superfunvariety.com

The Super Fun Superfund Variety Show presents the latest edition of its circus-meets-sustainability cabaret, Saturday April 21 in Gowanus, Brooklyn—featuring live performances by underground literary sensation Chris Gethard (A Bad Idea I’m About to Do), punk-rock puppeteer Carla Rhodes, and a cavalcade of comedy, circus arts, magic, music, death-defying physical daredevilry, a live-format bad advice column, and more! Hosted by sibling ukulele sensations Ellia and Josh Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Cobra Gold), April 21’s Super Fun promises genre-bending performances in a one-of-a-kind setting: the Film Biz Prop Shop, a 10,000-square-foot upcycling center filled to bursting with sets, props, and furniture reclaimed from film and TV shoots, all for sale to the general public. One hand-selected mystery treasure will be awarded to a member of the audience, and other fabulous prizes, tasty treats, cheap drinks, and second-to-none performers, from the silly to the sublime, make the Super Fun Superfund Variety Show a night of unbeatable entertainment.

Local business owners and Occupy Wall Street protestors can contact Super Fun Variety, giving their business name or working group, to be listed for half-price admission at the door.

Super Fun Variety’s previous shows have sold out to standing-room-only crowds. We have featured an incredible array of top-flight talents, including world-renowned variety performers, internationally acclaimed circus artists, and the 2012 Academy Award-nominated film short, “Time Freak.” Super Fun Variety applies the mission of the Film Biz Prop Shop—to “reuse, repurpose, and upcycle”—to the wondrous store itself, transforming its treasure-filled warehouse space into an incubator for emerging talent, and an opportunity for filmmakers, musicians, variety performers, and other artists to test and refine new work in front of a live audience. The show’s name refers to the Gowanus Canal’s designation as a federal Superfund site, and reflects our irreverent spirit, our strong social consciousness, and our goal of contributing to an environmentally and creatively sustainable local community.

Aikido in Virginia!

And here's my other side project this month: arranging the first-ever visit to America for my aikido teacher from Japan, Toshio Tanimoto sensei! Grab your gi and head to the DC area, April 28–May2!