Blind Dynamite
Improv / Sketch Comedy / As Seen on TV
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Male
102 years old
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 6/2/2008
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| Bio | One last chance to see the improv comedy powerhouse trio Blind Dynamite in San Francisco! | | Website | blinddynamite.com | | Members | Chris Libby, Rob Miles, Craig Dickson |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries |
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BLINDDYNAMITE at the Climate Theatre 10/17 at 8pm with Crisis Hopkins!
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About me:
WITNESS MIND MELDING AND AMAZING FEATS OF TELEKINESIS!
The present incarnation of BLINDDYNAMITE is a comic trio made up by
Rob Miles, Craig Dickson, and Chris Libby. This Bay Area group has a
cumulative history in performance of over 40 years before joining
forces to create BLINDDYNAMITE. Drawing upon the unexpected to
surprise each other and audiences, BLINDDYNAMITE creates
never-before-seen characters and sketches in each and every show!
(this is the etymology part)
"blind dynamite": 1.) to be intuitive, fortunate; to have a good idea,
to exhibit tremendous aptitude.
2.) a gift, a surprise, the unexpected
3.) a shocking and titillating response
4.) a entertainer's craft and or, their costumes, props, etc.
During the California Gold Rush the phrase became immensely popular
with the 49'ers because of reports that there were claims being
discovered with a peculiar methodology.
Guy Matherson is credited with the origins of this methodology. He was
quoted in a San Francisco periodical as having said, "I found myself
not where I thought I'd be, but decided that I didn't mind being
there".
Where Matherson found himself was in the dark, in a gorge, in Northern
California. It was there that Guy sunk a stick of explosive in a rock
wall, near a stream, and lit it. A thunderous roar echoed up and down
the gorge, and when the debris and dust settled Guy discovered he had
struck gold.
He said of the claim, "It's amazing what you can find if you dig a
little and have the courage to look".
It wasn't the first time Guy had struck gold in this manner. Others
came to call Guy's method of striking claims as 'Matherson's Stick of
Blind Luck'. Matherson embraced the idea and began calling his
technique as using 'blind dynamite'.
His response, " It helps if you know what you're after, then you know
what to look for".
Matherson, at one point, owned and operated three of the largest
working gold claims in California. All of which had been discovered
with his 'blind dynamite'.
The phrase was later re-invented by the traveling carnivals that
emerged around the turn of the century. Busking performers used the
term to draw folks to their tents to see the freaks, grotesques, and
other animal curiosities. The patrons were promised that for the price
of admission they could see the show and receive a stick of 'Blind
Dynamite'.
Here the phrase came to mean the unexpected. After seeing a bearded
lady, or a 300 pound man walk a tightrope suspended 50 feet in the
air, or a two headed donkey the barker would give the patron a fake
stick of dynamite. The patron would pull the "fuse" and a prize would
drop out of the bottom. The prizes would vary. Sometimes it would be a
ring, or a wooden nickel, or spruce gum, or the like.
As traveling side shows became vaudeville the phrase took on yet
another meaning. The vaudevillians would joke that their bags they
carried on the circuit from town to town, gig to gig where so heavy
because they were filled with "blind dynamite".
This referred to their wares, trade, costumes, and such that they used
to create their magic on stage. Loosely based on the fact that their
practical tools were used to "discover gold" on stage.
With particularly tough houses the phrase shifted yet again. One
performer might ask another how their show went and in response the
other performer might say,"Hope you packed your 'Blind Dynamite' to
illustrate that he'd have to do something really explosive and
surprising to get any type of reaction from the house at all.
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