There are two things I want to write about, and each of them features a lion as the central character. So stay tuned tomorrow for the more mountainous type, but today let's talk about what I did yesterday! I went to "Gottle o' Geer", a ventriloquists' convention in London, and I really loved it! The guest list really was the creme de la creme of ventriloquy and related fields...
Lenny the Lion, who's been living in happy retirement since Terry Hall died, was very much the guest of honour in his first public appearance for many years, but there were puppets and people old and new all over the place, lovely memories of the greats of ventriloquist history - it was a day of quite wonderful entertainment from start to finish!
And it really gets me fired up to try to come up with a real act for myself. Pretty much everyone there was a serious performer, and I do like occasionally being in a crowd where I can explain that I'm a Memory Man, and mention a few of the shows I've been on without seeming big-headed. And it gave me a lot of prompts for how the world of entertainment works and made me think of what I could do in it. So now I'm making plans. They may involve throwing my voice, if I learn how to do that. Or magic. I do have a rabbit puppet still living with me, and I do own a hat, and several packs of cards. If you need more than that to be a magician, then I don't know what it is.
