A Clown On Fire
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A Clown on Fire Reunion
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
Papa’s Gonna Buy You A Mockingbird
There was a wall-to-wall mirror in our modestly furnished living room. Most of what my parents owned were hand-me-downs from our neighbours who insisted on being called friends. My father was a janitor. We lived on the rez-de-chaussée of an upscale highrise, and our neighbours – our so-called friends – were the tenants: business owners, … Continue reading
Spock, Meet Kirk
“Love is too weak a word for what I feel – I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s, yes I have to invent, of course I – I do, don’t you think I do? “ Woody Allen, Annie Hall I was born a baby. I grew up as a … Continue reading
I Am Dying. Please…Bring me a Toothpick.
These were the famous last words of French absurdist, Alfred Jarry [Alfred Jarry is a tad of an arsehole this way, as these famous last words should have been mine, and mine only. What am I going to say before my last breath? "Twilight sucked ass", and *POOF*, off to blog in the afterlife?]. As a … Continue reading
This Clown Ain’t No Buffoon
I maintain a few personal email exchanges with bloggers. Some of you have touched me. And quite often and quite honestly [this sentence will be auctioned on eBay; you'll be given all the rights to use it as you please in your future literary endeavours], I’ve been bewildered by your craft, either by your out-of-the … Continue reading
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