Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bring in the Clowns

A friend who blogs was wondering if it's legit to recycle old material. Why, self-plagiarism is a venerated tradition in the letters! I blogged this previously in Myspace, before essentially abandoning that virtual trailer park:

Long before American institutions like Clarabelle or Ronald McDonald, the venerated art of scaring the bejesus out of little children took shape in circuses across Europe. I submit for your approval, the evil clowns of the continent. Why stick with just four horses for the Apocalypse? Why not use a tiny car?



Nothing makes a child laugh quite like a man with eyes painted on his eyelids, along with some paedophiliac hobo makeup



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Cirque de Soleil meets "A Clockwork Orange"



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I like the monkey guy on the left. Can't even imagine what his real face looks like.


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"Insane" is the new "funny"



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Not so much scary as sad.


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Eats actual human flesh


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Just plain evil


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Give it up for Grock


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Much more, including freaks, dancers, animal acts and carnival ride images are at Circusmusem.nl

3 comments:

Jagmenace said...

Personally, I'd rather look at the hot priest calendar!!

The Fifty Foot Blogger said...

If only I could find an online version of the hot priest calendar. Perhaps that can be a little scanning project for me in the coming months...

Anonymous said...

John Wayne Gacy dressed up as a clown. Enough said.