If you're a beginner and are lacking resources I have set up a blog that teaches how to be a sidewalk performer if any bodies interested.

jimmytalksalot.blogspot.com

Nice site and very good information. Thank you for making it available.

Great info. Like the video with the flip stick work. Nice.

Added to favorites, thanks Jimmy!

Thanks Jimmy. Put that in my list of faves and will check it out when I have more time.

Mandrake, you should've taken the time immediatly to read it all...TWICE.

Hopefully you saved it to favorites and are reading it all avidly RIGHT NOW THIS VERY SECOND!!!

NOT later...when you have more time.

Yeah, thanks. I'll work on that.

I have been street entertaining for a couple years now (only in small town Southern Illinois but I can still draw a tipping crowd) and there's a lot there that I'm learning from. Jimmy, where were you when I was learning the hard way? You could have saved me a LOT of trial and even more error by blogging sooner. Great info, brother!

Sammy the Kid

Jimmy, excellent. Thanks. Sammy, I went to SIU-C many years ago. Where you located in S. Il?

Wow, this is great information. Thanks Jimmy, I love the videos.

Thanks Jimmy...that is some good stuff

NIce job. Very helpful

Great Work!!

Jimmy, I'm sure there's a ton of great information on your site, but I have a very difficult time reading it. Your poor spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar make it almost impossible for me to understand you.

Maybe I'm just getting old. (Okay, probably not "getting." )

Jimmy's use of language is what makes the blog. No body wants to read something which is written like a textbook. Its up to jimmy how he writes his blog...and I think hes done a really good job.

If you don't get on with his writing style, then mabey is blog just isn't for you. No body else minds.

Actually..... it is a little difficult to read for reasons honus stated ,but it is well worth the effort as the blog is full of great info and advice, which in my opinion makes the blog valuable, not the idiosyncratic use of spelling,punctuation,capitalization and grammar.
Jimmy doesn't need defending ,he is very outspoken and his knowledge and experience and success speak for him......but thanks anyway Ben.

Honus,

it's my form of code for the initiate and I'm embarrassed to say it's also lazyness.

yes I'm more then poor spelling and grammar and I'm tryin to fix some of it but part of it is to agravate the uptight so they'll stay away from the knowledge because lord knows you don't wanna hafta indure some shallow hypersensitive uptight freak's idea of a good time when your watchin what he calls a show. uptight people, bad entertainers.

I would rather them just go out and fail completely and give up and go back to his real job were BORING is passable and tolerated for an hourly wage [as long as they can file good and got good grammar].

don't get me wrong I have a high regard for the civility, wisdom, and educated wit but not so far that it gets in the way of entertaining expression.

honus, please don't don't take this wrong and thanks for the criticism I think it's constructive but I would have prefered if you would have critiqued the content instead of fixating on something shallow.

See, I told ya

Yeah and the font is all wrong...


Seems kind of trivial compared to the info contained therein doesn't it Honus?

Jimmy, you write like a lot of us think. Keep it up man!!!

You're all pro!

I would suggest that if the presentation is poor enough, then what's being presented suffers no matter how good the information itself may be.

Having said that, and being aware that there are some gaffs on Jimmy's blog, I certainly didn't have any trouble reading or comprehending it.