Kelly Carlin

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Aug 15, 2013

Kelly tawks with Jason Escape - a renowned Escape Artist and Reality Engineer about why we all need to escape and how to do it.

Jason Escape · 11:28 PM

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Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

The quick brown fox jumped over the...oh, sorry just warming my typing fingers up...

Jason Escape · 12:00 AM

abc cba abc cba

Jason Escape · 12:00 AM

ahem....

Jason Escape · 12:00 AM

testing one bee

Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

Red leather yellow leather - oh, yeah, that's warming up my voice.

Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“hey Kelly and Jason! :-)”

Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“howdy”

Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

Welcome Lucy and Jordan!

Jason Escape · 12:01 AM

We don't need no voice where we're going...

Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

ha!

Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

So, jason...

Jason Escape · 12:01 AM

Hello ALL!

Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

I was thinking...

Jason Escape · 12:01 AM

talk to me.

Kelly Carlin · 12:02 AM

you must have been a handful as a child. Did you put yourself in precarious situations a lot?

Jason Escape · 12:02 AM

Actually not at all.

Kelly Carlin · 12:02 AM

So, this urge, this desire to ESCAPE came later?

Jason Escape · 12:02 AM

Very controlled and cautious, the way one would be if they were an escape artist.

Kelly Carlin · 12:02 AM

AHA!

Kelly Carlin · 12:03 AM

That is interesting. Say more.

Jason Escape · 12:03 AM

..and a new york jew..

Kelly Carlin · 12:03 AM

lol

Jason Escape · 12:03 AM

I was never an athlete or into extreme anything...

Jason Escape · 12:04 AM

The desire to escape came out of a desire to reach people and connect. Aren't we all in this boat?

Kelly Carlin · 12:04 AM

I like that.

Jason Escape · 12:04 AM

Are we all escape artists...?

Kelly Carlin · 12:04 AM

But you could have done that selling Amway products...

Jason Escape · 12:04 AM

Or is is aren't?

Jason Escape · 12:04 AM

is it

Jason Escape · 12:05 AM

No. Amway is not me.

Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

Yes, before we get into the philosophical aspect...I am curious about choosing escape.

Jason Escape · 12:05 AM

The person who started Amway is that person.

Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

What was it like the first time?

Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

What was your first escape?

Jason Escape · 12:05 AM

On a non metaphysical level, it came out of my love of magic.

Kelly Carlin · 12:06 AM

Yes. Magic.

Kelly Carlin · 12:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Bakay

“Was your birth normal, or was that an escape?”

Jason Escape · 12:06 AM

My grandfather bought me a cheap chain escape from a magic shop which I performed to my chosen audience...family..

Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

I like it Robin - getting Freudian already.

Jason Escape · 12:07 AM

Is birth an escape or an entrance?

Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

And you were showered in love, and so you got hooked!

Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

Ah, good question.

Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“so is escapism the next level up from magic?”

Jason Escape · 12:07 AM

No...neglect helped push along my passions.

Kelly Carlin · 12:08 AM

The look at me - look at me" need.

Kelly Carlin · 12:08 AM

yes, I can relate.

Jason Escape · 12:08 AM

I am going to look for you to keep us on point if you choose to, Kelly. And by the way, Hello.

Kelly Carlin · 12:08 AM

Hello Jason. And yes, I will.

Jason Escape · 12:08 AM

Yes. Georgie spoke of that...Look at me!

Jason Escape · 12:09 AM

A commonality.

Jason Escape · 12:09 AM

no?

Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

Yes. For most people on a stage it is.

Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

But back to the actual escapes.

Jason Escape · 12:09 AM

ok.

Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

You do this in public - as a busker?

Kelly Carlin · 12:10 AM

Street performer.

Jason Escape · 12:10 AM

Part time busker and part time corporate.

Jason Escape · 12:10 AM

and full time daddy.

Kelly Carlin · 12:10 AM

What's the difference in those crowds? And is there a difference in your act for them?

Kelly Carlin · 12:10 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“is death or birth the escape?”

Kelly Carlin · 12:11 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“busker = someone who plays an instrument,acts out plays,talks...in public”

Jason Escape · 12:11 AM

Fuck yes. Huge difference and these days I am leaning towards paid performances. What is up with people these days.

Kelly Carlin · 12:11 AM

Jordan - depends on your religion?

Kelly Carlin · 12:12 AM

You mean, why can't any of us make a living at our art?

Jason Escape · 12:12 AM

Short youtube attention span and little trust as opposed to a ticket holder who has paid for the trust between the performer and them.

Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

Are you ever afraid?

Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

Like you won't get out of that damn straight jscket this time?

Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“how do you think up your "escapes"?”

Jason Escape · 12:13 AM

As long as I am prepared I do not get afraid. There is really no time for that when death is close by.

Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

And is death close by? Or is that part of the illusion?

Jason Escape · 12:14 AM

Death is real..unfortunately.

Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

well, yes. It is. True dat.

Jason Escape · 12:15 AM

It is comforting that we all do it.

Kelly Carlin · 12:15 AM

Earlier you said that, "we are all escape artists." What do you mean by that?

Jason Escape · 12:15 AM

Escape as a metaphor..

Kelly Carlin · 12:15 AM

yes.

Jason Escape · 12:15 AM

We all look to improve or destroy our lives, often both...

Jason Escape · 12:16 AM

What are we looking for? Where are we going? What holds us back? What BINDS us?

Kelly Carlin · 12:16 AM

So, running away.

Jason Escape · 12:16 AM

Or towards

Kelly Carlin · 12:16 AM

Ah, yes, what BINDS us...

Jason Escape · 12:16 AM

And you can see how this is all very interpretative.

Kelly Carlin · 12:17 AM

What do you feel binds us? What is the straight jacket that modern humans have put on?

Jason Escape · 12:17 AM

As it should be. Escape is a personal journey.

Jason Escape · 12:17 AM

So much..Come on...We all know of the evils that are our daily devils...

Kelly Carlin · 12:17 AM

I find that self-acceptance is an important part of getting "unbound" by life.

Kelly Carlin · 12:18 AM

How does acceptance work in actual escape?

Jason Escape · 12:18 AM

Some that we have control over but it seems are so far out of our reach and we might be fucked...

Kelly Carlin · 12:18 AM

yes. I hear you.

Kelly Carlin · 12:18 AM

Or, read you.

Jason Escape · 12:18 AM

Yes...I was talking about that recently with a friends. Accepting who you are, the flexible you.

Kelly Carlin · 12:19 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“do you have a healthy fear of death or does it not bother you?”

Jason Escape · 12:19 AM

And I am an OPTIMIST!

Kelly Carlin · 12:19 AM

I think you would have to be stringing yourself upside down in a straightjacket! lol

Jason Escape · 12:19 AM

Death bothers me but as I said it is comforting that you'll die too. ;)

Jason Escape · 12:19 AM

hugs..

Jason Escape · 12:20 AM

Escape Artists have to be optimistic...

Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

★ Spotlighted from David Oliver

“It's got to be tough to keep coming up with new things to do. I'd like to see someone perform the trick of getting out of a two year cell phone contract :)”

Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

David - that's bordering on Jesus miracle level stuff.

Jason Escape · 12:20 AM

David...ask my mom..she can get out of any contract!!

Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Bakay

“Not being able to escape seems to be one of the things that bind us.”

Jason Escape · 12:20 AM

Yes...there are varied levels, Robin.

Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Pema Chodron, a buddhist nun, writes about the freedom of No Escape.

Jason Escape · 12:21 AM

Brillant.

Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Truly.

Jason Escape · 12:21 AM

Brilliant.

Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Like death.

Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Once you know it is real, there's something okay about life.

Jason Escape · 12:22 AM

Yeah...Really. We all die. Escape Artists are fans of LIFE. That is why we get to celebrate it each time we escape death! It is fun!

Kelly Carlin · 12:22 AM

It's like hitting the age of 50 and knowing that there are fewer years ahead than behind.

Jason Escape · 12:22 AM

We both have had fathers pass away.

Kelly Carlin · 12:22 AM

It's shocking, and yet strangely liberating.

Jason Escape · 12:23 AM

"Pass away"...

Kelly Carlin · 12:23 AM

★ Spotlighted from Mark Duwe

“I think we need to teach impermanence to the kiddos.”

Jason Escape · 12:23 AM

I was the one that signed the DNR for my dad.

Kelly Carlin · 12:23 AM

Mark - yes, at least fundamental mindfulness skills. This will lead to so much.

Jason Escape · 12:23 AM

Pets are good for those lessons.

Kelly Carlin · 12:23 AM

I just put down my dog Ned.

Jason Escape · 12:24 AM

Bye, Ned. Woof.

Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

It's a TRUE act of impermanence to own a pet.

Jason Escape · 12:24 AM

Especially fish... lol.

Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

So, here you are hanging upside down in front of a bunch of Boston tourists...

Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

what is the strangest reaction you've gotten?

Jason Escape · 12:24 AM

I think I'll buy son a fish and name him Carl.

Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

lol

Jason Escape · 12:25 AM

People have gotten nauseous watching me perform...

Kelly Carlin · 12:25 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“do your kids freak out from your escapes? do they love them or hate them?”

Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

Has anyone ever tried to rescue you?

Jason Escape · 12:26 AM

Some people get very concerned for me. It is endearing and sweet. It also means that I have connected with them and it makes me happy.

Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

★ Spotlighted from George McAvoy

“Hey jason, i have seen you escape many times”

Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

yes! You are taking them on the ride.

Jason Escape · 12:26 AM

Son is 14 months so too young to know yet..

Jason Escape · 12:26 AM

Hello, George!

Kelly Carlin · 12:27 AM

Do you talk about this BIG picture of escape when you do it? Are you enlightening them as well as giving them a good bit of entertainment?

Kelly Carlin · 12:27 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“jason,buy him a fish and call it Nemo”

Jason Escape · 12:27 AM

Yes. If what I do reaches them emotionally then I have them with me on my journey.

Jason Escape · 12:27 AM

Not on the street...

Kelly Carlin · 12:27 AM

It's so interesting thinking about the ways we all unconsciously BIND ourselves...

Jason Escape · 12:27 AM

They do NOT want to hear it. So sad. The masses..

Kelly Carlin · 12:28 AM

and yet, you do it purposefully. There is something lovely about that.

Jason Escape · 12:28 AM

I have been doing some public speaking about the topic and am looking for more opps to do that.

Kelly Carlin · 12:28 AM

That is great.

Kelly Carlin · 12:28 AM

I think a TED talk with you hanging upside down would be AMAZING.

Kelly Carlin · 12:28 AM

★ Spotlighted from George McAvoy

“And your son is the cutest baby in the North End”

Jason Escape · 12:28 AM

I have no choose but to have purpose otherwise I am wasting my time and risking my life for nothing.

Jason Escape · 12:29 AM

I would love to get that together, Kelly.

Jason Escape · 12:29 AM

Make it happen, captain.

Kelly Carlin · 12:29 AM

Have you combined the two? Both the physical escape with the talk?

Jason Escape · 12:29 AM

Thank you, George!

Jason Escape · 12:29 AM

You are a cool guy.

Jason Escape · 12:30 AM

Not the both together but the merger is eminent.

Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

So, what have you learned to escape from through your being an escape artist?

Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

What have you unbound in yourself?

Jason Escape · 12:30 AM

I still learn from it.

Kelly Carlin · 12:31 AM

I know I have learned to get over "my story" by telling it over and over...

Jason Escape · 12:31 AM

It has changed my perspective and has furthered my endearing gratefulness for being here.

Kelly Carlin · 12:31 AM

Which perspective has it changed?

Kelly Carlin · 12:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“sometimes it's hard to let go of your story when you use it to define yourself for your the first half of your life”

Kelly Carlin · 12:33 AM

yes, Jordan - and that is what Jung believed the 2nd half of life was about...Individuation: sourcing self from self not your story.

Jason Escape · 12:33 AM

I am upside down...first of all...

Kelly Carlin · 12:33 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:33 AM

Yes, THAT is quite a perspective.

Kelly Carlin · 12:34 AM

What have you learned to let go of?

Jason Escape · 12:34 AM

But what that means is that if one inverts there LOOK on life, one can overcome challenges. I have.

Jason Escape · 12:34 AM

The challenge of becoming a better human.

Kelly Carlin · 12:35 AM

Yes, literally shifting one's physical perspective can shift one's internal perspective.

Jason Escape · 12:35 AM

I have let go of patterns and behaviors that held me back. I am still letting go. Negative thinking can always be a challenge.

Kelly Carlin · 12:35 AM

I have clients do it all the time in order to access new information from their mind/bodies.

Jason Escape · 12:36 AM

Yes. Being inverted is awesome.

Kelly Carlin · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“so what was it about Houdini that so captured the country's fancy?”

Kelly Carlin · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“i was obsessed with houdini as a kid...”

Kelly Carlin · 12:37 AM

Hey Kit!

Jason Escape · 12:37 AM

As much as I have changed over the years and most of it has happened before I was professionally escaping I hope that others see the meaning of what I do not just on face value.

Kelly Carlin · 12:38 AM

What you are doing is almost like public ritual - like theater, so I know that it is impacting psyche in some way.

Jason Escape · 12:38 AM

Houdini was a master a social media.

Jason Escape · 12:38 AM

Unfortunately, street is not what it used to be so I am glad to be transitioning with great alacrity.

Kelly Carlin · 12:39 AM

So, are you a teacher who uses escape really?

Jason Escape · 12:39 AM

I am a connector.

Kelly Carlin · 12:39 AM

It feels like you are ready to take a new direction.

Kelly Carlin · 12:40 AM

A connector - connecting what to what?

Jason Escape · 12:40 AM

I look forward to this direction.

Jason Escape · 12:40 AM

People. #connecting

Jason Escape · 12:40 AM

All sharing a common moment. It's a good thing (Martha Stuart).

Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

Yes, so like theater in that way. Or music. The Collective space.

Jason Escape · 12:41 AM

Yes. Or a good show.

Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

A shared experience.

Jason Escape · 12:41 AM

Nevermind. redundant. lol.

Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

But you also have this part of you that loves to be the inspirer.

Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

Your tweets are always inspiring.

Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“and houdini -- was seeking the connections too. to all those unknown things...?”

Jason Escape · 12:42 AM

Yes. I can lead only if others co inspire.

Kelly Carlin · 12:42 AM

★ Spotlighted from Mark Duwe

“Anyone ever interested in sensory deprivation? Read John C. Lily?”

Jason Escape · 12:42 AM

It can happen through energy just by an audience's focus.

Kelly Carlin · 12:42 AM

And leaders, I believe, are the ones who point and say, "Let's go there." - Where would YOUR there be that you would like to lead people?

Jason Escape · 12:43 AM

Thank you. I have lessoned on the tweets. Damn child...

Jason Escape · 12:43 AM

Freedom.

Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Mark - I have not. I know of Lily though.

Jason Escape · 12:43 AM

Very open word..for a reason.

Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Freedom.

Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Yes, BIG word.

Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

For you, what does that look like>

Jason Escape · 12:44 AM

There can be small freedoms, no?

Kelly Carlin · 12:44 AM

Yes - like non-fat or whole milk. ;-)

Jason Escape · 12:44 AM

Being happy and accepting when I am not. I am getting good at this.

Jason Escape · 12:44 AM

Soy..

Kelly Carlin · 12:44 AM

Ah, yes.

Kelly Carlin · 12:44 AM

★ Spotlighted from Blake Ian

“Great question Kelly... and well worded!”

Jason Escape · 12:44 AM

Soy is TOO much freedom.

Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

Thank you Blake, I paid enough money to learn how to ask those nice open ended questions! ;-)

Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

So we are back to acceptance.

Jason Escape · 12:45 AM

Yes.

Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

It always rolls back there for me too.

Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

Everyday.

Jason Escape · 12:45 AM

It is all perspective...

Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

Every minute.

Jason Escape · 12:46 AM

Too much fucking.... (Nigel)

Kelly Carlin · 12:46 AM

yes, acceptance is a perspective.

Jason Escape · 12:46 AM

Yes. Non tangible, correct?

Kelly Carlin · 12:46 AM

I know that the minute I accept what IS, I relax, my mind settles, my body is happier, and even if I am in the shit, I feel hopeful.

Jason Escape · 12:47 AM

Wonderful.

Kelly Carlin · 12:47 AM

Are you familiar with Byron Katie?

Jason Escape · 12:47 AM

We dated, yes.

Kelly Carlin · 12:47 AM

lol

Jason Escape · 12:47 AM

tee hee..

Jason Escape · 12:47 AM

no I am not.

Kelly Carlin · 12:48 AM

She has a thing called The Work that can walk you into the arms of acceptance.

Kelly Carlin · 12:48 AM

★ Spotlighted from Mark Duwe

“Acceptance from a political perspective is a bear.”

Jason Escape · 12:48 AM

Interesting.

Jason Escape · 12:48 AM

Acceptance is a daily ritual.

Kelly Carlin · 12:48 AM

yes, Mark. True, but we first accept what is, and THEN resolve to see what needs to change. yes?

Kelly Carlin · 12:49 AM

We can't change anything until we fully embrace the predicament we are in.

Jason Escape · 12:49 AM

And that changes daily.

Jason Escape · 12:49 AM

Again there are little and big acceptances.

Kelly Carlin · 12:49 AM

Well said.

Jason Escape · 12:50 AM

Accepting that your wife will never put anything away should be categorized as a small one.

Kelly Carlin · 12:50 AM

lol - YES! So, Jason, if people want to check you out, see you escape, hire you to entertain their peeps.

Jason Escape · 12:50 AM

Cancer on the other hand...

Jason Escape · 12:50 AM

They can email me or tweet me!!

Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

That's a longer road to acceptance..

Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

And I found this cool video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OYH9X1sPdM

Jason Escape · 12:51 AM

Great transition from me mentioning cancer, btw.

Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

AWKWARD.

Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

★ Spotlighted from Mark Duwe

“Of course.”

Jason Escape · 12:52 AM

Thats an old one...

Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

And thank you Mark, for making the point. Needs to be made.

Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

So, here's what I know....

Jason Escape · 12:53 AM

Tel me

Jason Escape · 12:53 AM

tell me

Kelly Carlin · 12:53 AM

We all find ways to bind ourselves, and we are the ones that can unbind ourselves, but only if we remember that we are the ones that put ourselves into the straightjacket to begin with?

Jason Escape · 12:53 AM

Btw, my site is www.jasonescape.com

Jason Escape · 12:54 AM

Yes and no. We do not always put on a straight jacket alone. We are never alone.

Jason Escape · 12:54 AM

But it is OURSELF that needs to get out.

Jason Escape · 12:54 AM

or in.

Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

yes!

Jason Escape · 12:55 AM

I do love chatting with you, my dear.

Kelly Carlin · 12:55 AM

That being the difference between living as a victim and living as empowered.

Kelly Carlin · 12:55 AM

This has been fun.

Kelly Carlin · 12:55 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“at least with a straight jacket,you get to hug yourself all the time”

Kelly Carlin · 12:55 AM

And then there is that....lol

Jason Escape · 12:55 AM

Yes. Agreed on both of your posts.

Jason Escape · 12:56 AM

True. I love being all snug.

Jason Escape · 12:56 AM

Cuddle!!!!

Kelly Carlin · 12:56 AM

So, folks, thank you all for being here.

Jason Escape · 12:56 AM

I truly appreciate everyone here.

Kelly Carlin · 12:56 AM

Thank you Jason for escaping for a few minutes and sharing your life with us.

Kelly Carlin · 12:56 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“man, that went by fast.”

Jason Escape · 12:56 AM

You are wonderful!

Kelly Carlin · 12:56 AM

REALLY fast.

Jason Escape · 12:56 AM

Super quick

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

Come hang with me tomorrow on a whole other medium - my podcast....call in show!

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“so fast JB...bit like milk...”

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“thank you both!”

Jason Escape · 12:57 AM

Cool

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

And Jason - have a GREAT week.

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

Kiss you kid.

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

Buy him a fish.

Jason Escape · 12:57 AM

Peace always and The good in me seeks the good in you, all.

Kelly Carlin · 12:57 AM

Joe Bless you all.

Jason Escape · 12:57 AM

WIll do.

Jason Escape · 12:58 AM

Joe Bless America.

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

Murica.

Jason Escape · 12:58 AM

Are we all done.? lol...

Jason Escape · 12:58 AM

Awkard...

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

We are done. xo

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

lol

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

lol

Jason Escape · 12:58 AM

Tip tap tip tap

Kelly Carlin · 12:58 AM

buh, bye.

Jason Escape · 12:59 AM

ummm...ok.

Kelly Carlin · 12:59 AM

mwah!

Jason Escape · 12:59 AM

Hugs to you and your hubby and anyone else that you want to give one to.

Kelly Carlin · 12:59 AM

Thank you!

Kelly Carlin · 12:59 AM

See you on the Twitter.

Kelly Carlin · 12:59 AM

★ Spotlighted from Lucy Dyer

“loved this btw Kelly and Jason!! you guys rock :-)”

Jason Escape · 12:59 AM

If you do not mind delivering one.

Kelly Carlin · 12:59 AM

Thanks for playing Lucy!

Jason Escape · 12:59 AM

See ya there. :) Follow me all at @jasonescape

Kelly Carlin · 1:00 AM

And me at kelly_carlin xoxo

Jason Escape · 1:00 AM

Yes...

Jason Escape · 1:01 AM

Going now to get my baby out of the tub.

Jason Escape · 1:01 AM

This is bye for real now. :)

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Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:00 AM

evening/afternoon/morning all :-)

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:00 AM★ Spotlighted

howdy

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:00 AM★ Spotlighted

hey Kelly and Jason! :-)

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:01 AM

in the interweb no-one can hear you scream!

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:03 AM★ Spotlighted

how do you think up your "escapes"?

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:05 AM★ Spotlighted

Was your birth normal, or was that an escape?

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:06 AM★ Spotlighted

so is escapism the next level up from magic?

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:06 AM

how about on a metaphysical level?

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:08 AM

Do you think escaping would be a good premise for a superhero?

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:09 AM★ Spotlighted

is death or birth the escape?

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:10 AM

whats been the most riskiest escape you've done?

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:10 AM

What's a busker?

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:10 AM★ Spotlighted

busker = someone who plays an instrument,acts out plays,talks...in public

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:11 AM

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:11 AM

no problem Robin

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:12 AM

in my idealized, non-existent world, we all make money from our art!

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:13 AM

it's amazing how much paying for something raises the perceived value of it

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:14 AM★ Spotlighted

do you have a healthy fear of death or does it not bother you?

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:15 AM

Do your ever stash candy or a tuna sandwich incase you can't get out as quickly as you anticipated?

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:17 AM

mortgages is the most common straight-jacket - college tuition too

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:18 AM

i think the modern straight jacket,as Kelly puts it, is the fear of change,of doing something out of the oridinary,to tink outoutside of the box as it were

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:18 AM★ Spotlighted

Not being able to escape seems to be one of the things that bind us.

David OliverAug 15, 2013, 12:18 AM★ Spotlighted

It's got to be tough to keep coming up with new things to do. I'd like to see someone perform the trick of getting out of a two year cell phone contract :)

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:18 AM

gotta be able to get a mortgage first tho JB

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:19 AM

A pessimistic escape artist is just wrong.

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:20 AM

that and the force binds us..surrounds us,binds the galaxy together....

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:20 AM★ Spotlighted

I think we need to teach impermanence to the kiddos.

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:22 AM

escaping doesn't always mean death tho.

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:23 AM

are you "escaping" or just cheating death?

George McAvoyAug 15, 2013, 12:23 AM

Have any of you witnessed or been at the bedside of a dying person

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:24 AM

Oh. Ned. So sorry for your loss.

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:24 AM

My kid has hermit crabs. Can you help them escape?

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:25 AM★ Spotlighted

do your kids freak out from your escapes? do they love them or hate them?

George McAvoyAug 15, 2013, 12:25 AM★ Spotlighted

Hey jason, i have seen you escape many times

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:25 AM★ Spotlighted

jason,buy him a fish and call it Nemo

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:26 AM

it's an escape for us to watch you escape death...

George McAvoyAug 15, 2013, 12:26 AM

My friends from Moscow got very nervous

George McAvoyAug 15, 2013, 12:27 AM★ Spotlighted

And your son is the cutest baby in the North End

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:27 AM

It's like evel knievel used to do.

Robin BakayAug 15, 2013, 12:28 AM

I want to hear the ways we bind ourselves!! Please go on...

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:28 AM

how we bind ourselves? well,theres rope,fluffy handcuffs,mind control,hypnotism....to name but a few

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:31 AM

is there anything that you've thought "i just cant escape from that"? or is nothing impossible?

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:32 AM★ Spotlighted

sometimes it's hard to let go of your story when you use it to define yourself for your the first half of your life

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:33 AM

we all arrive in this world upside down

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:34 AM★ Spotlighted

so what was it about Houdini that so captured the country's fancy?

Jimmy PlankAug 15, 2013, 12:34 AM

I've always been escaping from something in my life, it seems

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:36 AM★ Spotlighted

i was obsessed with houdini as a kid...

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:37 AM

hey, Kel!

Jimmy PlankAug 15, 2013, 12:39 AM

Houdini would be all over twitter and Facebook, had it been around back then. He was a great skeptic like some other guy I was a fan of

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:40 AM

yes, didn't he debunk as much as he mystified?

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:40 AM★ Spotlighted

and houdini -- was seeking the connections too. to all those unknown things...?

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:41 AM★ Spotlighted

Anyone ever interested in sensory deprivation? Read John C. Lily?

Jimmy PlankAug 15, 2013, 12:42 AM

Mark Duwe....I first read your post as "Read John C. Reilly." Lol

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:42 AM

the sensory deprivation tanks -- floating tanks -- are sort of a thing again

Blake IanAug 15, 2013, 12:43 AM★ Spotlighted

Great question Kelly... and well worded!

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:43 AM

(Jimmy, i read that the same way at first and thought "huh?")

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:44 AM

maybe small freedoms are the best

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:46 AM

i want "like" buttons on moderator comments too

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:46 AM

maybe freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:47 AM★ Spotlighted

Acceptance from a political perspective is a bear.

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:49 AM★ Spotlighted

Of course.

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:49 AM

yeah, that's not just the bear but the fucking bear

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:50 AM

and how long are we going to wait for others to wake up and realize their predicament? if they dont want to know,why bother?

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:51 AM

I have accepted that sometimes, when I'm gone all day, my dog will poop in the living room. That was a tough one.

Mark DuweAug 15, 2013, 12:52 AM

You're welcome, see you on twitter.

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:54 AM★ Spotlighted

at least with a straight jacket,you get to hug yourself all the time

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:54 AM

aint no-one gonna do that but you

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:56 AM★ Spotlighted

man, that went by fast.

Kit NowellAug 15, 2013, 12:56 AM★ Spotlighted

thank you both!

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:56 AM★ Spotlighted

so fast JB...bit like milk...

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:57 AM★ Spotlighted

loved this btw Kelly and Jason!! you guys rock :-)

Jordan BirnbaumAug 15, 2013, 12:57 AM

faster than it takes to escape a death defying fire pit?

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:57 AM

even faster than that!

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 12:58 AM

joe bless murka and all who sail in her!! (hic)

Lucy DyerAug 15, 2013, 1:00 AM

followed :-) moahahaha!

George McAvoyAug 15, 2013, 1:16 AM

Thanks Jason and Kelly

Rebecca Westbrook TokerAug 15, 2013, 8:22 PM

Thanks, Kelly and Jason!