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Cafe Prückel.Vienna.Sept.2016
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Musing on the nature of humor and clown
Not long ago I wrote a post on constructive versus destructive humor focusing in on if the humor was at someone’s expense or globally uplifting. This was before the whole creepy clown phenomenon...
Scary Clowns Take 3. Terrorist Clown Ring Arrested !!!
The Latest Headline in the Santa Monica (CA) Observer: Terrorist Clown Ring Arrested in Alabama Clown Fears Have Spread Across the South in Recent Weeks Flomaton, Alabama police have taken one adult...
Scary Clowns Part 2. It was all a hoax!
For those of you following the news of scary clowns in the Carolinas, you can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as the WXII.12 news reports: Winston-Salem police said Friday that they...
Clown.GoogleAlerts.1.2016
Another Google alert in my mailbox, links to all the articles that contain the word clown. That word is my nemesis. The prevailing mainstream perception of that word, at least according to the...
Constructive/Destructive Humor
You wish to share a joke, a remark, expecting/hoping for laughter. Sometimes though your intent backfires, and you find yourself in a bit of a pickle….How to know when is the right time? When is the joke a good joke?
“As long as the humor is not destructive” the woman explaine
In parts of Argentina, Clowns in Children’s hospitals is a law.
Yes it's a law in Argentina that Children's Hospitals must employ clowns. I'm posting here to link the reader to this great article (on the Next City website written by M. Sophia Newman. It's ...
Clown + Zen. Listening and Connection. Conversations with Egyoku
This conversation with Roshi Egyoku took place during my six weeks (Jan-Feb 2007) as an artist in residence at the Zen center of Los Angeles. A few times a week, we would sit down for a half hour...
Links to Articles on Sacred Clown.
Sacred Clown, sometimes called Ritual Clown, is a name given to clown traditions coming from deep community amongst indigenous populations. Great crazy wisdom has been handed down over centuries...
Egyoku on Sacred Clown. JUST Human!
The deeper I delve into clown from the teaching side, the greater the desire to put a finger on this word clown, what and all it represents. This has led me to explore the traditions of the sacred...