see what your stupid clowning around got you ... capped, that's what!

following hundreds of years of buckets filled with confetti, water-squirting flowers and the flaunting of their giant feet sizings, revenge has been enacted against clowns.

a lone gunman entered a circus in the impoverished town of cucuta, colombia - a country well known for its coked-up clowns (i have no idea if that statement is true) - and shot down two clowns mid-'performance'. now, i am not making a secret and never have, i hate clowns. they are creepy, wear clothing that is not only mismatched but oftentimes smelly, and, face it, not all that funny.

now, i hate it that two circus men are dead, cause joshie loves him some circus, but come on, clowns have been asking for it for a long darned time. john wayne gacy and ronald mcdonald, for two cases, are enough for at least some clown-bashing justification. then there is the whole summer i spent reading 'it' (i still have not recovered the wasted time or the piece of mind) or the small screen adaptation that scared additional pisswater out of me ... at least john ritter made that film worth it.

other clowns who give us all fine reason for some good old-fashioned grease-paint hatemongering ... bozo (so not funny), the killer klowns from outer space (death by popcorn and cotton candy), insane clown posse (come on, people, that band sucked, sucked, sucked), KISS (they may have rocked, but they WERE clowns, no matter how much gene tried to sell that whole alien thing).

and last but not surely not least, that french cousin of the clown, the mime. who hasn't wanted to smack the shit out of a mime. pretentious franco 'artists'. mimes have been asking for a gat-induced coma for, what, centuries? now, i am not saying go out and start popping caps in mimes, but knocking a big ol' hole in their imaginary box or cutting their 'rope' would be fun, right?

in fact, i can only think of two clowns that even make the 'profession' marginally respectable ... krusty the clown and shakes the clown. although, now that i consider it a little more deeply, perhaps krusty and shakes are the same clown. research it, i think you will find i am likely close to right.

anyways, clowns are creepy. hate it somebody died in clown face, but hey, that's the chance you take working a 50-cent circus in the coca capital of the world. what the hell did they expect, a madman with a gun that ejects a 'bang' flag in the stead of hot, flesh-piercing lead? i call that a hazard of the job.