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SideShow Bennie

Momma Mia. That is one spicy meatball

About Me

I am a professional Side Show attraction who should know better! I appear on stages all over the country where I drive nails up my nose, lay on a bed of barbed wire, walk barefoot in broken glass and eat fire among many other amazing feats. I have also been seen on VH-1, E! Entertainment TV and recently was the featured performer in a documentary called "Stomachs Of Steel" which aired on The Discovery Channel. Check out my website at www.sideshowbennie.com......I am also in a polyamorous relationship and would love to converse with other folks in similar situations. If you have any insight or questions, drop me an email......**NEWLY UPDATED INFO: I have been getting Friend Requests left and right lately and I am not one who needs to have thousands of friends to stroke my self esteem. So given that information and to keep my Friend's List from becoming unwieldy, I have come up with some criteria for accepting new friends. Don't be offended if I do not 'friend' you. It's only MySpace. You will survive. If you meet the following qualifications, I will most likely friend you. 1) You must be old enough to legally buy me a cocktail. No offense kids but if you are jailbait, then we don't have enough common interests to make it worthwhile to add you. I am sure you are cool and groovy and hip among your peers. Enjoy your youth. Why do you want to friend an old fart like me anyway? There are a few under-21's on my friend's list but these are kids I know and who are way cooler than you. Deal with it... 2) If you are a band and want me to friend you, I have to either a)know someone in the band b)have heard or worked with your band or c) you play the kind of music I would pay to listen to. My tastes are wide but I am picky. 3) I will automatically friend any other Side Show, Burlesque or Comedy act. You are my peers and we need to stick together and network. 4) I look at every profile of everyone who sends me a Friend Request. If you look interesting, fun, bizzare, out of the ordinary, creative or artistic, I will friend you. 5) If I have had sex with you, you are my Friend and automatically approved. If you want to have sex with me, let me know when you send your Friend Request and you, too, will be automatically Friended. wink 6) I will not Friend you if you look remotely like some sort of spam/scam operation. If you are a hot 21 year old who says you saw my profile and thought I look hot and your profile directs me to your webcam site, you can go straight to hell and you will be denied! 7) If I do friend you and you flood my Bulletin box with crap, I will delete you. Nothing personal. I am just funny that way.Thanks for reading that and if you have made it onto my Friend's List, then you can feel smug in that you are the coolest of the cool!I edited my profile at Doobix.com
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My Interests

Abusing my body for fun and profit, whistling a jaunty tune, checking pay phones for change, collecting frilly aprons and world domination...

I'd like to meet:

The Hoy Paloy and all of their pals. Fellow Side Show Acts, Burlesque Queens and Comedians are always welcome. Nekkid folks would be nice too.

Music:

Most music these days sucks like a bucket full of ticks. When I do listen to music, it is likely to be Tom Waits, Rockabilly and Psychobilly, Louis Prima, Dean Martin, Space Age Bachelor Music, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Traditional Appalachian fiddle music, Tibetian throat singing unclassifiable noise...

Movies:

I watch lots of movies.

Television:

I am something of a TV junkie. It was my babysitter as a child and my companion as an adult.

Heroes:

Anyone who achieves their dreams!

My Blog

I Knew It. I Am An Infidel...

From Belief-O-Matic. Take the test http://www.beliefnet.com/quizzes/beliefomatic MY RESULTS... ..> ..> 1.  Neo-Pagan (100%) 2.  Unitarian Universalism (91%) 3.  Hinduism (77%...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

SideShow Bennie. Celebrity.

Yes. I had a Celebrity Moment today...I popped into the local Hobby Lobby store today to pick up a couple of items that I needed for a project I am working on. One of the items was some material for s...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:57:00 PST

What have you been up to Bennie??

Much has gone on since my last update so strap yourself in for a slightly lengthy post...I left Nashville last Friday morning for Cincinnati. I was booked to do a two night run with The Cloven Hoof Th...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:21:00 PST

...And The Winner Is...Part 2...

..I finally had a chance to get to the State Fair tonight. j9 (aka The Missus), Lynn and I made the trek to the fairgrounds for, to paraphrase Mayor Quimby, the funnest day of the year. We were all an...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:26:00 PST

...And The Winner Is...

It is official...My homemade Chocolate Pecan Pie just won Second Prize in the Pecan Pie Division at The Tennessee State Fair. That's right. A big, hairy, 2 fisted, fire eating, nail driving, manly Man...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:52:00 PST

Check Out One Of My Music Video Appearances

This is Blackhawk doing 'Who's Gonna Rock.' I shot this video about a year ago. It was an incredibly fun shoot and I loved the way it turned out...Blackhawk/...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:35:00 PST

I was wrong about Bonnaroo

For those who are unfamiliar with Bonnaroo, it is one of the largest outdoor music festivals in the US and possibly the world. Almost 90,000 tickets sold this year. The festival takes place on 1100 ac...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:22:00 PST

Nashville's Ultimate Man

Well, in the 'just when you think things can't get any weirder,' this just in:I just got off the phone with All The Rage magazine, a local entertainment/lifestyle magazine that is published by Gannett...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:11:00 PST

Stupid Questions

I am sitting, a little bit bored, in a hotel room in Seattle so what the hell. I did one of these goffy ass tests. Enjoy your trip into the psyche of SideShow Bennie...   1. Have you ever been ...
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:38:00 PST

New Stuff

Yeah. I know. I rarely ever update this page. I usually post my stuff on LiveJournal (where I am 'sideshowbennie' if anyone is interested in checking that out) but this time I do have some good news.....
Posted by SideShow Bennie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST