Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus Since the inception of A Clown on Fire, I have cited Andy Kaufman, Alfred Jarry, Monty Python, Woody Allen, George Carlin and Tom … Continue reading
*There’s a special announcement at the end of this post. I like games. I like to play all sorts of games: Hide and seek with my 3-year old daughter, in which I hide, and come out again a week later, with a tan and an all-inclusive resort wristband; Tax evasion, a role-playing game in which … Continue reading
Late last year, Le Clown announced a new page where Carnies could link to their blog: Carnies’ Corner. Dedicated to Le Clown’s readers, this page is where you can add a link to one of your favourite posts, a place to shine the spotlight on you, or on your fellow bloggers. Le Clown wishes he … Continue reading
WHY A PERSONAL ASSISTANT FOR LE CLOWN? Le Clown is three degrees of separation from Tom Cruise, three times over. Le Clown thinks its prudent to augment his security details. Introducing Subcomandante. SUBCOMANDANTE’S BIO Subcomandante was born and raised in a chicken coop. Free range, though, so social services were never called. After watching her … Continue reading
THEN On February 3, 2012, I published my first post on WordPress: it was a video by Die Antwoord, and the post was titled One Tablet A Day—it was viewed 4 times, with no likes and no comments. Le Clown‘s character wasn’t born yet; this site was about a man who was married to a woman living … Continue reading
The Great XMAS Blogroll Induction Extravaganza – Day 11. Le Clown screwed up. This never, ever happens. Le Clown is flawless: common fleeting thought when I catch a glimpse of my magnificence™ in the mirror. About the whammy… I scheduled two blogroll inductions on a same day. Why? Because I am flawlessly disorganized, and I … Continue reading
New Year’s resolutions? Not for Le Clown—you’ve been warned, preemptively. You will not read a holiday Le Clown post prompted by my friends at The Daily Post. What should you expect from Le Clown when he is thinking about 2013? This post. Happy New Year! 2012 A stellar blogging year, said Le Clown. Since February, … Continue reading
Kudos on the recent Freshly Pressed bloggers : Sips of Jen and Tonic, Curmudgeon-at-Large, Mike Callahan, Someone Fat Happened, Roller Giraffe, The Bumble Files, iRuniBreathe, Laments and Lullabies, Large Self, Fear No Weebles, that blogger friend of mine who just received the Freshly Pressed email, and yours truly, the magnificent™ Le Clown. That’s half of my blogroll… Now … Continue reading
Bloggers for Movember is supporting all efforts currently ongoing for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and is putting the Movember campaign on hold until Monday, as a sign of respect and solidarity. Instead, here’s a guest post by blogging royalty Amy West, ex-Just West of Crunchy, to boost Le Clown’s stats up. I welcome all new … Continue reading
Reblogged from ASpoonfulofSuga: As you all know I love to poke fun at things and a few days ago I did so again at the expense of WordPress and their sacrosanct institution that is ‘FreshlyPressed’. I was inspired by a comment from Edward Hotspur (Captn. of Team Edward) specifically: Freshly Pressed does focus on certain types of posts. … Continue reading