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I CAN SMELL IT NOW

End of an era:

In a Daring Leap, Ringling Loses Its Three Rings

I left the RBBB Circus years ago. It was just old and stale. But, we took the kids lots of times. Boston Garden.

One year, we forgot the tickets and made a mad dash back home then on to the Garden. We made it.

I go back to the days of Gunther Goebbel-Williams and the other star names. The clowns were national figures.

All that was over a long time ago.

Then we got to be fans of the new Cirque de Soleil. We have seen a lot of those shows.

And now that is so thoroughly imitated that we have a local tent show here in PS; same idea, opening next month.

Of course, the Cirque people started imitating themselves a long time ago. The last time we went, I said it was my last. Too many twirling plates and contortionists.

There are no or few animals in the circus anymore. I suppose that is a good thing; cruelty wise and so on. But they will not smell the same ever again.

All things pass.