Hi. I'm Landon, Lando to most of my friends. Not much to say.

Fun weekend!

I didn't do much of anything on Friday that I can remember... If we hung out and I forgot about it, sorry! On Saturday I went to the Renaissance festival with Justin and Lizzy, Justin's mom, and Lizzy's parents. Fun times. Justin got hypnotized. The bellydancing troupe from Charlotte that was there had started to incorporate fire and ribbon poi and fire fans into the act, and an oil lamp dance. We heckled them, which made the head chick mad but delighted the rest of them.

We talked to the main fire girl for a long time, the rest of the dancers haven't worked up the courage to really start spinning fire or anything like that. She was pretty cool, it's always refreshing to meet someone as enthralled by stupid carnie tricks as we are... She thought the whips and stuff were neat, told us we should get on the bill. I agree. Nobody else is willing to do fire breathing, so we have that covered, plus our whip skills far eclipse the one show that uses whips there.

After the head of the dance troupe found out that we were fellow carnies-at-heart and poi-spinners and such, she softened up and talked to us. We kept teasing the fire-poi girl about doing more and more complicated moves.

Saturday night Jake and I tried to find trouble in Hickory. We spat on some passing cars, sat around on the railroad tracks, flattened some coins with a passing train, and climbed a tree. Good to know we're mature. He stayed over and I tried to arrange for him to come to the ren faire with me and my family since they had bought me a ticket, but noooo... His evil stepfather got in the way. Fuck you, Frank!

I tried to get AJ and Sonya to come along but they didn't want to go, so I ended up just driving out there and hanging out with my family. I got weird looks for being at the faire two days in a row... I talked to Fire-Girl again, she did "thread the needle" (a difficult poi move) onstage and yelled out something to the effect of "that was just for you, whip-kid!" Fun stuff.

I skipped school to what will probably be disastrous results on Monday (come to think of it, I did the same on Friday!) and then today was Advising Day so we didn't have classes... I went by to make an appointment with my advisor and was sorely late. I don't have an appointment until next week, all the good classes are going to be FULL. Ah well, I'm thinking of taking a semester off anyway...

After all that AJ and I met up and had some dinner, looked for funny stuff in the sex shops (we found a sculpture/salt-and-pepper shaker set of two pigs doing it!) and yet again fed the evil, economy-and-freedom-crushing corporate machine which is Wal*Mart by purchasing dog food and bottled water. After dropping him off I stopped in at Xanders where my family and all their homeschool friends were having game night. I had a lovely French conversation in which mom's friend Jennifer and I traded insults. She told me to go fuck myself up the ass and I told her she spoke French like a Spanish cow... Not a bad day I suppose. I really don't want to go to math class anymore but I suppose I have to. Fucking blah. 11/09/05

Also, Lando's House of Whips is now listed as the first result for several whip-related search items on Google. Hooray me. You'd think I'd have more visitors. 6/7/04

Lando and Charcie's Teacher Gallery which continues to enjoy immense popularity since its creation in April 2004 is now located on a separate page HERE.

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Home of Poi--Another of my Circus Arts interests.	The Bandys High School Drama Club--See club officers, get news, read about upcoming projects
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My Awesome Pictures--A lot of pictures, most from school	The Dark Tower Group--For anyone interested in Stephen King's work