22 comments to “Pure Bliss!”

1. Stardust:
   28 April 2007, on 10:59 am

   Thanks Naomi, this was a fun diversion. The guy is incredible and makes it look so easy! Fun and fascinating to watch. (Cool song, too.)

2. rbh:
   28 April 2007, on 1:16 pm

   Hm. The link is dead already — video removed by user. Shucks.

3. Stardust:
   28 April 2007, on 1:26 pm

   rbh - It works for me still.

4. Christopher:
   28 April 2007, on 1:44 pm

   Professional jugglers hate this guy for getting so much attention when he is a relatively unskilled juggler. Jason Garfield, an admittedly butter guy, created a response video where he performs Chris Bliss’ routine with five balls dramatically raising the difficulty level. http://youtube.com/watch?v=QYUXaYCkv-A&search=jason%20garfield

   If you want to see some juggling that is both technically difficult and entertaining, check out anything done by the Galchenkos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOxmWx_0Xwk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftop5daily%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dgalchenko
   Not only are they awesome jugglers they are also rational thinkers. Vova fills his personal blog with skeptical and atheist commentaries. http://www.galchenko.com/blog/vova/

5. Christopher:
   28 April 2007, on 1:53 pm

   It should be pointed out that Chris Bliss, though perhaps not the best juggler, is behind a movement to get Bill of Rights monuments placed throughout America’s public lands as a response to the 10 Commandment monuments we hear so much about.

6. Christopher:
   28 April 2007, on 1:54 pm

   http://mybillofrights.org/

7. Marcy:
   28 April 2007, on 3:46 pm

   Well, he might not be a talented juggler by juggler’s standards, but I sure as hell couldn’t even come close to doing anything remotely like that at all.

   I thought it was awesome.

8. Marcy:
   28 April 2007, on 3:59 pm

   OK, I checked out the other videos, and the Galchenkos are fucking amazing! And they’re teenagers! Oh my God! OK, bad choice of words on an atheist blog.

   I also checked out the other guy, and although I could tell that he was a better juggler, his routine wasn’t as in sync with the music as Chris’s was.

9. Old Viking:
   28 April 2007, on 7:14 pm

   What the hell? There may be something more boring than juggling, but it sure doesn’t occur to me at the moment.

10. Jess Wundrun:
    28 April 2007, on 8:09 pm

    mimes juggling

11. ChuckA:
    29 April 2007, on 12:39 pm

    “mimes juggling”…erm…against the wind?
    “Nice!”
    [ala Midnight the cat...right, Naomi?]

12. Bronze Dog:
    29 April 2007, on 12:57 pm

    I haven’t seen a lot of mimes outside of cartoons where they have superpowers. They’re sometimes funny under those circumstances.

    For real world mimes, I think they can be hypothetically funny, but most only seem to do the cliche acts.

    One hypothetical scenario I think would be potentially funny: Have a mime do a copying act of a mime-hater. If it doesn’t work out, watching the hater pummel the crap out of the mime will.

13. luke burrage:
    29 April 2007, on 5:23 pm

    Vova Galchenko is an athiest, and his blog is full of debate with christians about life and evolution and all that:

    http://www.galchenko.com/blog/vova/personal/atheism/

    As a professional juggler myself, I can tell you the controvesy surrounding Chris Bliss was created mainly by one or two jugglers with a grudge, who would kill to have such a successful routine.

14. Naomi:
    29 April 2007, on 7:19 pm

    Thank you, luke burrage! I haven’t followed juggling, in the past, because I felt inferior to their skills. I know, that’s not the thinking processes of an adult.

    But on one of my previous posts, I checked my links to be sure they worked — and the top post said:

    Check out this amazing video. Not only is this performer a top-notch juggler, he actually juggles in perfect synchronization with the music. His name is Chriss Bliss.

    I was just…blown away! And I HAD to share it. (In the YouTube comments, there were a lot of disparaging remarks, which I just put down to professional jealousy; thanks to you, I see that I was right!)

    Now I’ve got to go visit Vova’s blog, so if you’ll excuse me–

15. Naomi:
    29 April 2007, on 7:45 pm

    LB: one atheist is like another, in some respects — but no one can beat the Galchenkos! I followed Christopher’s link (in #4 above) and saw the ESPN coverage of the LasVegas competition. How awesome: 9.22/10 and 9.95/10!

    But my heart is still captivated by Bliss’ show. Even Jason Gardner, while more technical, couldn’t move me…

    And I’m still a klutz!

16. luke burrage:
    30 April 2007, on 2:19 pm

    You like juggling perfectly synchronised to music, check out my postmodern 3 ball and video projection act:

17. luke burrage:
    30 April 2007, on 2:19 pm

    http://www.juggling.tv/vaults/view_video.php?viewkey=cb220ffe637cda29bb3f

18. Stardust:
    30 April 2007, on 4:16 pm

    Luke, that was excellent! And to think you managed to get through the routine after cutting your head open just minutes before going onstage!
    How in the world did you cut your head? Did you fall or walk into something?

19. Naomi:
    1 May 2007, on 12:51 am

    Luke, just amazing! And do tell us — my guess is the competition is cutthroat (or headbanging?)!

    Satisfy our curiosity, please!

20. luke burrage:
    1 May 2007, on 6:41 am

    I was hit by a spaceship.

    I wrote about that night here: http://www.lukeburrage.com/thingonthenet/?page_id=10

21. Stardust:
    1 May 2007, on 10:51 am

    Luke, it seems you should hire a personal nurse and/or doctor to travel with you! I don’t mean this as an insult, but it’s ironic that you are such a good juggler, but kind of a klutz at the same time! Maybe you need a helmet and steel-toed safety shoes?

22. Naomi:
    2 May 2007, on 12:42 am

    What I see, LukeB, is the headache you had the next morning (times two) was free! Had you attended the after-parties, you might have been “broke, with a headache” or just had that alcohol-haze-headache that aspirin won’t help and only time will cure…