renown clown about town, freelance e-jester, CEO of fools
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in 1883 in the first recorded rodeo takes place in pecos, texas. in 2001 rob smets attends the PBR world finals in jeans and a sports jersey bearing sponsor logos. in 1568 the gelosi acting company coalesces in italy to perform the hot new style of live improv entertainment. in 1780 joseph grimaldi makes his stage debut at 2 years old at london’s famed drury lane. in the many, many years before any white person ever laid eyes on it, a man in what you’d now call northern arizona paints his body in black and white stripes and puts corn husks in his hair. in 1557 ivan the terrible is pallbearer to a man who walked naked in the streets of moscow. in 2017 the ringling bro’s circus announces its last show, 146 years after the titular brothers first formed it. all of these moments (and more!) have lived in my head rolling around like marbles for years now and im so happy to now have the proper method to infect your mind as well:
History of Fools is a hobby project of mine i’ve been working on for over a year now! part essay series, part half-assed podcast, part descent into madness, this little diddy is the culmination of years’ worth of highly specific insanity. i have 4 half hour-ish essays/episodes out now reviewing the histories of:
I have more episodes planned to get into clowns proper, hoping to come out in 2024. but until then please take a read or a listen and let me know what you think!
Every bad reply on Tumblr reads like it’s from a recent high school grad who’s going to coast on being a delight in English class for the next 30 years and every bad reply on Bluesky is like the Chris Fleming bit about horrid guys who respond to jokes with “You know there’s a grain of truth to that”
Bad replies on Twitter make you rethink your stance on the death penalty
the nature of every viral epic dunk argument-terminating phrase is that, within a week of the phrase’s inception, the phrase will be used by a big blog to shut up a minority trying to explain how they are being actively and visibly marginalised
big blogs latch on to epic dunk phrases like temporarily embarrassed ben shapiros
There’s a good list of some more recent ones in the notes:
