Welcome to another Way-Out Wednesday, kids! I'm taking a slight hiatus from posting too many creepy-ass vintage dolls in a row. I don't want to spoil you. Instead, I'm heading back to an old favorite here in Way-Out land: the circus. And more specifically, the disgusting clown which IS ALWAYS SCARY NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY. They are. If they're not scary-looking, they're angry-looking. And if they're not angry-looking, they're pervy-looking, though I do prefer a perv clown to one that looks ready to suck your soul from your eye sockets.
So please "enjoy" this week's Way-Out Wednesday pick, this Vintage Circus Clown Painting.
"Step right up folks, and thanks for stopping by the Happy Family Fun Time Circus, right here in sunny downtown Compton! I'm Itchy the Clown, your MC for the evening. We have the second to lowest-rated circus around- so you know what that means? You could do slightly worse! My badly-burned hands don't permit me to perform my famous fire-juggling act anymore, but there's still plenty to see! Bring the kids to our petting zoo! Our giraffes have moderate cases of scoliosis, making it even easier fro them to bend down and eat pellets right out of your hand! Word of caution, though: we've had a small outbreak of rabies in the duck department, so they've been bound and gagged with balloon strings, but the kids can still look at them from a safe distance. Enjoy the elephant show, where they've been forced into submission by having their achilles tendons slashed by sword-wielding ballerinas! If fast-paced action and death-defying thrills are your game, then come on in to the acrobat tent! Give it up for our newest members of the family, Svetlana and Bogdana, straight from Russia! They don't let their fused-together bodies from an unfortunate Chernobyl accident get them down! Come on in and enjoy the show!"
"Clowntime is Over" by Elvis Costello.
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Verrrry Creeepy. Love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chris! I never could understand the appeal of clowns. Ick. And just...ick.
ReplyDeleteI agree...clowns are always on the edge of weirdly creepy to me. Something about the fake smiles...I guess I've seen Stephen King's "It" one too many times and went to too many Halloween scary houses where there were clowns in the insane asylums! I grew up watching Bozo the Clown...don't remember thinking he was creepy...the older I get, the more creepy the clowns seem to get! Great post...thanks!
ReplyDeletegr8 post...I HATE clowns they are Evil....what else could you call some one who wastes that much RED lippy
ReplyDeleteBrave girl~
ReplyDelete"It" is terrifying when it's the first horror movie you ever saw as a kid! Nothing like setting you up for a lifetime of clown-loathing!
Ahahahaha~ how DARE they waste good red lispstick, Gingey?! Those bastards!
ReplyDeleteI'll hand it to you, that is possibly the least-creepy, least threatening clown, real or painted, that I've seen in a long time.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've seen a lot of clowns.
eeps. flashback: poltegeist clown scene.
ReplyDeleteMy sister had a muisc box that had a cat dressed as a clown(some relative gave it to her for Christmas). When you wound it up, the clown cat would move along with the music. Needless to say it creeped us both out so she stashed it deep in the closet. It continued to creep us out when the darn thing would play snipet of the music on its own!!!!! She finally sold it in my grandma's yard sale. That stupid music box is the reason I hate clowns.
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