Where did June go....?

Wow a month without blogging about all the great stuff we've been doing! Time to catch up with the blogoshpere. June was filled with lots of fun and shows. One Sunday we got to clown out in Brooklyn for the HASC safety fair. We debuted our new parade/ fair/ outdoor event tricycle. Check out these photos,

 Then we had a real treat! The Kelly Miller Circus Came to town....we close enough to drive to in NJ.
We have been looking forward to meeting Steve and Ryan, two of the most incredible, hilarious clowns I've ever watched. They are masters of slapstick and physical comedy. So Phineas and I left early to make sure we got in early to bring free roll (a plate of home baked cookies) to them. We spent a while talking to them and getting some pointers about prop building and gag writing. Then later the Kitchen Goddess and Pupperdoodle along with her best friend joined us to watch the show. It was also Pupperdoodle's Birthday so we went out to eat afterwards....a great day of circus and food, Happy Birthday Pups and thanks Steve and Ryan.

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Happy Mother's Day

I hope all the Mom's had a great Mother's Day. The Kitchen Goddess woke to a lovely breakfast in bed to start the day prepared by Pupperdoodle! The rest of the day was spent relaxing and spending time together as a family, which is what I feel is one of the best ways to spend my days.
We did have to do a little yard work and we managed to help make another mother safe for the day.
We found a new bird's nest in our tree that we were trimming and had to take extra care not to ruin this mother bird's day.....well worth the effort.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there.

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Otto is Dog tired..Bark For Life Walk x2

What a weekend for our fundraising dog Otto "FourPaw" the clown. This was the weekend of the Bark for Life American Cancer Society Walks in both Queens and NYC. So on Saturday the Kitchen Goddess took Otto and the team to Flushing Meadows Park in Queens for the walk. They also participated in some of the contests and FourPaw won "shortest dog". Too bad they didn't have a contest for longest dog because as a dachshund he would win in both those categories.

Then on Sunday the clowns walked in the NYC Bark for life walk in Riverside Park on the upper west side. Like last year we looked great and our team captain FourPaw led us through the walk and posed for a bunch of photos. It was a fun event and between both walks we raised about $400 for the American Cancer Society.

In between the two walks, on Saturday evening Otto and I went on Good Dog Rounds at Brookdale Hospital.

Sunday night, Otto passed out on the bed  and didn't move until the next morning.....dog tired....
What a great weekend for the entire family! Thanks to Otto "FourPaw" the clown we all had a blast.
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I found it on the internet.....

Sometimes we search the web for events and they end up really happening and in this case it was a blast!
As our readers know, our dog Otto is a mini long haired Dachshund. We had heard runors about something called DachshundFestival and so we looked it up. It turns out that it happens twice a year, in the Spring and then the Fall. Dachshund lovers and owners gather under the arch at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village and meet and enjoy each others' dog and some even come in costume! So FourPaw was there with us and we had a great time. There must have been 250 dogs there, and that's the long and short of it (get it, that's a Dachshund joke) At at 1PM on the dot after they handed out song sheets, we all sang "The Dachshund Song"- yes there is even a song about our wonderfully built breed. Here are a few photos. In one of them you can see Otto in his Fourpaw outfit with his sausage link leash.

Then we decided to go out to lunch which you would think is impossible with a dog, BUT most places that have outdoor seating areas allow you to dine Al fresco with your canine companion at your feet. Most places will happily bring you a bowl of water for your dog. Check out www.bringfido.com for help in this area in any city. It was really a great day. When we got home, the dog was tired....maybe that's where that saying came from. He just went to sleep on the couch.

On Sunday we got to clown up in Mamarroneck NY at a Yeshiva/day School's Israel@65 Celebrationwith the organization Areyvut (www.areyvut.com) and Pupperdoodle and I made balloon animals, I juggled and we generally goofed around with the kids and their families. Great weather for an outdoor celebration.

A very busy clowning, celebration weekend. I think there were more dogs at Dachshundfest than the number of balloon dogs I made on Sunday (its my best one) 

Next weekend promises to be another busy one. On Saturday the Kitchen Goddess takes the team to the American Cancer Society Bark for Life Walk in Queens, then on Sunday I take the team to the city for the Bark for Life Walk in Manhattan.  Otto may sleep for the entire next week! So might the kids!

until next blog.....

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Dr. Molar Magic

It was a fun show....

So last Sunday I got to do the Dr. Molar Magic Show in Brooklyn (the Greatest place in the world) for OSTAR Early Childhood and Adult Day Center. This is a day program for children and adults with developmental disabilities. They are ALWAYS a happy and appreciative audience. I performed the show there last year and they asked if I would come back and do it again. I changed up the show a bit partly to keep it fresh and partly because I lost some of the show props due to water damage to our trailer where the show lives. (Since then I've fixed the leak with that spray on leak sealer from the infomercials.."but wait there's more" I called in the first 10 minutes and got a second can free!)
The show went well and the audience and staff learned about their teeth and clapped a lot after each trick. Then there were lots of photo requests with me so the whole audience came up in small groups as the teacher filled up the memory card on her camera.
Then it was lunch time, and since I was only 7 blocks away, I went to eat at the newly renovated and recently reopened Nathans on the Boardwalk at Coney Island. It was a gorgeous day with perfect weather to be there, oh how I wish I could just hang out and kill the day soaking up the sun and atmosphere. Check out these photos.

After a very satisfying lunch and walk around the boardwalk I headed home. Good show good lunch....life is good.

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Dr. Molar Magic

Who are you....really?

I was asked by a couple of people who read our blog to clarify who I am....sounds silly right, but its not.
People have asked me," you're a clown but are you really a dentist?" and "you're a dentist but are you really a clown?" So who is Bruce Lish, DDS? and who is Dr. Molar Magic
Well here's the story....
I've been a magician and clown since age 14, I'm now 43 (hey...that's not that old) and I've always wanted to follow in my father's path and become a dentist. So I was admitted to the New York University 7 year combined BA-DDS degree program. I graduated from New York University with a BA in biology and DDS degree.(that's Doctor of Dental Surgery)
I spent 2 years training at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, NY learning advanced oral surgery and implant dentistry to compliment my general dental skills. Throughout all of this I never stopped being a perfroming magician and clown. In fact Brookdale Hospital is where we do our clown rounds and our good dog foundation visits, among other projects, and I'm on the Dental Department Faculty and use their operating rooms for general anesthesia cases.
During the 3rd year of Dental school we were required to go to local elementary schools to do dental screenings as part of the pediatric dentistry training. It was then that I created the character of Dr. Molar Magic combining my career and love for oral health care with my passion for magic and clowning.
I've always combined the two to provide excellent care and educational performances for my patients and many organizations.
One of my performance experiences led me to the developmentally disabled populations and this later led to my involvement by providing dental care for these very special patients is all areas of dental need.
The Dr. Molar Magic Foundation was formed in 2005 and in 2009 we came up with Circus Bicuspid.
I'm proud to say I've won a number of awards for both dentistry and performance and through the years. I have enjoyed the "best of both worlds" by combining them whenever I can. My family and I live to perform for charitable causes. If you read the pages of this blog you will see the great work we've been privileged to do...hopefully making the world a bit better for it. 

So that's the deal.....you can be both! So call me Bruce Lish, DDS, or Bruce J.Lish, DDS, or Dr. Molar Magic or Boss Clown of Circus Bicuspid, it ALL good to me....
www.brucelishdds.com and www.drmolarmagic.com
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Another show in the bag......

Hello Blogosphere!
Last night Phineas and I performed again for the Society of American Magician's Parent Assembly #1's Grave site Restoration committee. The show was at Ken's Magic and Costume Shop in Fairlawn, NJ. These shows raise funds to help restore the burial sites of famous and not so famous magicians. A lot of these past stars are forgotten and their burial sites are in disrepair and need work. The committee under the direction of Richie Magic (Current President of the Assembly)  has made lots of great progress restoring the sites of a number of famous magicians buried in the NY tri-state area.
Phineas and I were sporting our new "non-makeup" costumes and I think we look pretty snazzy.

Oh you should also be following both of us on Twitter, always good stuff there.

Its that time of year again, the annual American Cancer Society's Bark for Life Dog Walk in NYC.
Sunday May 5th in Riverside Park on the upper west side and once again we will be there in clown. Even Otto will be in his FourPaw costume walking to help the cause. In fact this year there is a bark for Life Walk in Queens, right near us the day before....So the Kitchen Goddess will lead Otto and the kids on the walk...that one will not be in clown (at this point) So if you have a dog PLEASE consider coming out to one of these great events. The dogs love the socialization and so do the people and could there be a better cause that this...If you are on our email list, you will be getting asked to donate to our team. We are not looking for big donations, just big participation! I'd rather have 100 people donate $5 than only 10 donate $50. this way we raise money AND awareness. Here is the link to donate

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY12National?px=20921731&pg=personal&fr_id=48082

So we are very busy with shows and projects around here and loving every minute of it.

So until next post......Keep'em clean
Bruce Lish DDS aka "Dr. Molar Magic"

Free Roll for the Red Unit Clowns

Phineas did it....his goal was to get free roll, in this case a nice big plate of home baked cookies, to our friends on the red unit of Ringling Brothers. The Show for the 143rd edition is "Built To Amaze" and as usual they put on a great show with all the glitz and glitter and sparks and confetti cannon that we've come to expect from Feld Entertainment.
So here's what the deal is. We got there early, very early  so we could be first online to get into the arena and down to the floor for the preshow. We went right over to Chris who we met at the Dallas Pie fight and then spoke to again in Bridgeport at the end of the Fully Charged Tour. Then the other members of the alley we have gotten to know came over as well and we presented the free roll to the alley!
The other cool part is that Phineas spent a week or two just drawing cartoon versions of each member of the alley and brought it for them to sign. This drawing was cool and the clowns were excited to see it, sign it and some even took pictures of it with their phones. We talked for a few minutes but then they had to go back to work as the rest of the crowd was finding their way to the floor.
During the show my phone was vibrating every few minutes, Chris texted us to hang around after the show and then I got a bunch of Facebook alerts that the clowns were liking the drawing and Circus Bicuspid!
After watching the show we hung around as the arena empties out and Chris came to find us with backstage passes. We had a great tour of the backstage of the 143rd edition and got to spend time talking with the performers (and Phineas' future colleagues-we hope)
What a great afternoon, we appreciated the hard work the entire circus does in putting on a show and the clown alley for being "the pegs the circus hangs on"
To all of our friends in the Red Unit Clown Alley......see ya down the road!

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Bruce Lish DDS aka "dr molar magic"

DRI- Carnival For A Cure

Once agian, Phineas and I performed walk around clowning and general stupidity at the Annual Diabetes Research Institute's Carnival For A Cure at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. We really enjoy being a part of this event each year. Sometimes you don't realize how long you've been working with a group of people. They've had the same events company for years and the same staff run the games. As we walked in there were a lot of "Hi"  and "great to see you guys again" from everyone.

We got there a little later than in the past because we came in costume wearing our jumpsuits. These suits are great and like in the big shows they keep our costumes clean and under wraps while loading in (well for me they do because Phineas NEVER helps with load ins...there I said it!) and during our makeup.

We had a great day working with the crowd. My juggling was off for some reason, maybe there was excess gravity this year, maybe I need more sleep...or heck even more practice. I ended up sticking to the spinning plate for a lot of the event but it worked out because the kids loved taking it onto their own stick and letting it spin. Great parental photo op.

Speaking of photo ops, I think there were more requests from the staff and vendors to take photos with us this year than ever before. I even gained some new followers on Twitter from it. Check out this photo of us and Trader Joe's team.
Another cool encounter was with some staffers from Z100 in NY. They asked for photos with us and then we asked if they knew Wendy Wild the DJ who hosted the Big Apple Young Legends Show. They said they would see her Monday morning and we told them to send regards from Phineas! Great networking huh?

This evening we are off to see the ELEPHANTS WALK! Yes we are heading out to the Nassau Coliseum to watch the elephant walk from the train to the venue for the arrival of RBBB BUILT TO AMAZE. We are going to see the show on Sunday morning and it really looks great.

Wow that's a long post for me....
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Needle through the Balloon...

Phineas and I have been working a new comedy routine for the magical classic, the "Needle through the Balloon". We were asked to perform four our Synagogue this past Saturday Night as part of the Purim Holiday festivities. So we juggled a little, Pupperdoodle got out there and performed some magic, (way to go Pups!) we did some work with the audience and the bells and we debuted this routine. Its the simple relationship between Phineas and I. I'm the big shot magician and bossclown, he's the interrupting obnoxious teenager, always going for the laugh....ahhh how art imitates life. The routine finally ends, after popping many balloons with the actual successful penetration of the needle through the balloon. Funny and yes AMAZING! I really enjoy taking magic routines and "clowning them up" to bring out comedy. Our characters really help with this, and as I learned in Goof School (www.nygoofs.com) conflict in status can generate lots of comedy.
Speaking of the NY Goofs, they have their annual Winter Intensive  March 15th -17th in NYC. Train with them and you'll learn how to do it right, and wrong, and left and right again....and funny.
Next we are off to the SAM Parent Assembly #1 meeting this Friday because its OPEN MIKE NIGHT!  Phineas and I have decided to try the needle through balloon for this crowd....What the heck are we thinking?
Wish us luck, we'll need it!
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Just got home and the show was great

Well, we just got home from our weekend at Steve Kissell's Clown Jamboree in Mystic CT. The Friday night show that we were hired to perform went great! All of our stuff was well received with lots of laughs and we even got a standing Ovation. I love this crowd, they enjoy our work mainly because they have seen Phineas and Pupperdoodle grow up here. We got some video footage so we will probably put something up on our YouTube channel soon. This will be our 11th year attending this convention but this time we were the hired performers. This year was also the 20th Anniversary of when Doug Chapman and Sue Connely started this convention so they were there as the Honorees Saturday night. It was fun to see them and catch up with them and their family.  Staffing the convention, and lecturing this year were the one and only Joe Barney and his son Alex Barney. They are a real circus family....Joe plays PT Barnum for Ringling Brothers PR and Alex just came off 4 years as a member of clown alley in the blue unit. They performed and told circus family stories that we could listen to all night. Phineas spent the weekend learning the real deal about being in clown alley with the Greatest Show on Earth.  Overall a very nice relaxing weekend with good friends framed by great shows.
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Last Minute Show booked

We just got a call from Steve Kissell who now runs the January Jamboree clown Convention in Mystic, CT. We've been attending the convention for many years when it was run by Doug and Sue of Clown City. We had decided to take a break and not go this year. And then at the last minute, we got a call that they needed a show for the Friday night spot and we were invited back! So after a few back and forth emails to set up the details we are on our way.
We will be performing some of our best stuff including material from our two off Broadway productions Circus Bicuspid-Almost on Broadway and Circus Bicuspid-Back for Seconds.
While there we will also be involved with the promotion and support of Camp Sundown's Clown Alley and Red Nose Response, two incredible organizations that do very important work.
We its off to pack the trailer and take the show on the road...

keep 'em clean
Bruce "Dr. Molar Magic" Lish

FourPaw back at work

Today Otto "fourpaw" was back to work at Brookdale's Nursing home facility making his Good Dog Foundation Visits. His first year of certification ended in November and just after he re-certified (passing with flying colors of course) Hurricane Sandy hit the area. Now that things have calmed down a bit we scheduled our regular visits. And BOY WAS HE MISSED! Many of the residents were very happy to see Otto and asked where we had been.....I gently explained that we were sidetracked with other things but now we are back.
One resident asked if she could give me a dollar to have Otto pick out a dog treat at the pet store. She told me that when her grand kids come to visit her she gives them each a dollar to get themselves a toy and since Otto comes to visit her she thinks he deserves the same deal. I thanked her respectfully but declined the offer as Otto gets plenty of treats. I gave her a treat to feed him and he was very happy to take it....all part of a day's work.
Some of the newer residents were happy to meet Otto and get his trading card and there were a few new staffers who were surprised that dogs were allowed in. I explained the wonderful training that Otto had through the Good Dog Foundation (www.thegooddogfoundation.org) to allow him into partner facilities to visit with the residents.
Everyone had a good morning....with lots of treats

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Let's start the Show!

As the calendar turns the page to 2013, we get to look back and see all the great work we got to do in 2012. We had our regular yearly venues, like the Diabetes research Carnival for a Cure, the Autism Speaks walk, etc. Then we got to do new events like doing the ACS Bark for Life walk as Circus Bicuspid in Clown....you know we are doing that one again!  We are grateful for all the work we had and look forward to doing more in the year to come. We also all agreed that we want to perrform more in general..... So we brainstormed and came up with a great idea. We have started to reach out to organizations like synagogues, churches, and community groups to offer our show as a fundraiser for them. Here's how it works.
We bring the show to your venue and you sell the tickets for whatever price you'd like and however you'd like. We keep a small percentage of the price for each ticket and the rest goes to your organization.....great show, great fundraiser. Our hope is to keep this very easy for the organizations. All we need is a plug and a stage and we are ready to make any audience laugh and cheer.

The first mailings should go out by the end of the month introducing ourselves and the offer and as the shows start....we will post them and share them with the blogosphere.

Happy New Year and keep 'em clean