Pick one:
1) Things are not always what they seem.
2) Keeping one’s balance in life isn’t always easy.
3) Some goats, like some people, are jerks.
h/t Ace
Category: What the…?
Hoo Haa Hee
Oh noes! Sad news today from the world of comedy and frightening people.
Sources report a disturbing shortage of clowns. Membership in the World Clown Association [ahem] has dropped by almost a third since 2004.
[ I would find the proliferation of clowns more disturbing.]
Clowns of America International [ahem again] President Glen Kohlberger explains that the main problem is that all the old clowns are dying, while world-clowning overall is falling below replacement levels.
WCA President Deana Hartimer added that:
The challenge is getting younger people involved in clowning.
According to Kohlberger:
What happens is they go on to high school and college and clowning isn’t cool anymore. Clowning is then put on the back burner until their late 40s and early 50s.
OMG. When was clowning cool? Did I miss something? I may be ignorant, but the only famous clowns I can think of are John Wayne Gacy, Pennywise, Krusty, and whoever is governor of Illinois.
But that still doesn’t explain the shortage. All you have to do is drive on the tollway or ride the CTA and you can find all the clowns you need.
In other news, Ralph the Handyman—I’m sorry, that’s so heteronormative and phallocentric of me—HandyPerson is dead at 89.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Everybody’s doing Beatles tributes to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the boys coming to America, so I figured, “Hey, I need web traffic! I will too!”
That tingling feeling you have going up your spine right now, is because I have conditioned you to expect the worst.
Behold, the worst!
Continue reading “Monkey See, Monkey Do”
Nein, Bitte Nicht!
Happy New Year!
Well, Chinese New Year. Oh, and it’s tomorrow not today, but, you know…
The Chinese lunar calendar is very complex. Animals recur every 60 years. Within that system, there is this “stem-branch” arrangement that spans 12 years and…
Like I said, it’s complex.
2014 is the Year of the Horse. In case you missed it, 2013 was the year of the Snake (Was it ever! Boy, howdy), and next year we get Sheep. The year after, Monkey.
So we got that goin’ for us.
I guess if you’re a horse, you should take advantage of it now.
Hear that Cedric?
Public Service Announcement
How the Mighty Have Fallen
This is what happens when a once proud country completely rejects its history and instead, leaves its interpretation to 20-sumthin’ Art majors. Egad!
What the hell is that you ask?
That is one of the proposals for a new Union Jack! In case you were too caught up in the latest shuffling of American Idol judges to notice, Scotland is scheduled to hold a referendum on independence from Great Britain in the autumn of 2014.
Lemme don my art critic hat for a moment…there we are. Here is my first reaction…
Continue reading “How the Mighty Have Fallen”