A Share in the World to Come
‘Rabbi Baruqa of Huza often went to the marketplace at Lapet. One day, the prophet Elijah appeared to him there, and Rabbi Baruqa asked him, […]
Month: October 2016
What Witchery but a Clown's?
What Witchery but a Clowns? by Charles Dickens, from the introduction to Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Dickens in 1838. It is some years now, […]
Mark Twain on Being a Clown
Mark Twain on Being a Clown, by Robert Edmund Sherwood, from Here We Are Again I have ridden in Venetian gondolas to the music of tinkling […]
Only One Real Life
Only One Real Life, by Dexter Fellows – an excerpt from This Way to the Big Show, 1936 The laugh-clown-laugh theme is as old as the […]
Johnny Patterson
Johnny Patterson (1840 – 1889) The Irish Singing Clown Early life of Johnny Patterson Johnny Patterson was a famous Irish clown, known for his original songs, […]
Eternal Drollery
Eternal Drollery, by Francis Beverly Kelley (from “The Land of Stardust and Spangles,” The National Geographic Magazine, October 1931) Byron once wrote, “He who joy would […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day ProclamationThe White HouseWashington, D.C.October 3, 1863 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION By the President of the […]
Fun With The Phone
Fun With The Phone – Ideas for your telephone answering machine. Nearly everyone has a phone answering machine or a voicemail system of some kind. […]
Emmett Kelly: The Greatest Clown on Earth
Emmett Kelly: The Greatest Clown on Earth (Notable Missourians) In the early 1900s, the circus was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in […]
Playchute parachute
Clown Props – Playchute parachute  Playchute parachute – This is actually more of a prop to use at a birthday party or picnic, and not […]