End of summer, start of fall flame ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Ann Votaw, Midwest/NYC

 

EDITION 4: Send in the clowns

September Roundup

You’re about to read …

This fourth fabulous issue includes dispatches from the Coney Island Clown Skool, plus … a poem:

 

More from Ann’s blog

Tue, Sep 30

A week of Clown Skool

I lost three pounds at Coney Island Clown Skool! Silly burns serious calories.

My temp recruiter asked what I planned to do with my new “soft” skills of miming, magic-ing, masking, puppeting, improvisi

 Read More 
 

Upcoming Comedy Shows

Tues., Oct. 28, 8:30PM @ The Whiskey Cellar, 77 E. 7th St.

 

Ann’s August faves

Best books

I’m trying to read Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores. Ewww. It’s good. It’s just I’m not feeling it right now. I saw one in Manhattan during the pandemic. It scared the bejesus out of me. When I was in Montana this summer, I heard coyote calls in the morning. But this book combines folklore with science, showing how the coyote is one of America’s most resilient beasts.

Driving!

I drove to Gaylordsville, Conn., with a ZipCar. Gor-geous. Hills. Farmstands. You name it.

Favorite dance steps

Pullbacks in tap were never my specialty. It’s when you jump backwards and make two sounds on the landing foot. Urgh. But now I see them as backwards pas de chats, like in ballet. It’s a two-legged situation with one leg starting momentum for the other.

Best Wishes for the Fall

  • I want to host an open mic somewhere.

  • I want to get booked for Mrs. Claus gigs in the drag brunch circuit in Hell’s Kitchen. I would play her, very wholesome, but in a slightly bawdy but female-loving crowd.

Ann Votaw

30 Seaman Ave., 1E
New York, New York
USA

Powered by Squarespace

Unsubscribe