Jennings Brown Clowns

There was a remake of the movie called “IT”, which was released this year. This movie is about a demon, named Pennywise, who is dressed as a clown. Pennywise feasts on children’s fear, meaning that he eats the children that are afraid. When you think of clowns, you

“The Clown” by Patrick F. McManus is a narrative selection about an unpleasant teacher and a boy in her math class with a weird sense of humor. In this story, Pat, a “fairly timid fellow”(McManus 59) in seventh grade, is the main character. Other critical characters include Miss Bindle, a mean math teacher who is “tiny, scrawny, and fierce, with an eighty-year-old face and twenty-year-old red hair”(McManus 58), and Slick, the class clown. To begin with, Pat’s main goal is to finish seventh grade without being sent to the principal’s office by Miss Bindle. To do so, Pat “took great care never to attract the wrath of Miss Bindle” (McManus 59) and virtually became ‘invisible’ in her class. Later, Pat gloats about this to Slick. However, Slick

In recent news, creepy clown sightings have been happening through the northern parts of South Carolina. With these citing, there is talking of a "clown apocalypse ". These clown sightings have triggered the phobias of some people and have made others become violent. Because of this sightings and the public reactions, Target , a discount retailer, has stated that for this Halloween, they are not going to be selling clown costumes. Joshua Thomas , Target's spokesperson , stated in a email "given the current environment, we have made the decision to remove a variety of clown mask from our assortment, both online and instore ". The irrational fear of these clowns have struck home with a lot of people. These extreme irrational fears are called

Since the early ninety’s, a controversial Detroit rap group known as Insane Clown Posse have boasted about torturous murder methods and brutal killings within their music. Within hours of the release of their debut album The great malinko the Southern Baptist Convention criticized Disney for signing the group after proclaiming ICP was the devil’s music. Disney instantly dropped ICP from the label and removed their album from stores. Soon after, homicide reports started to spread with perpetrators proclaiming themselves as Juggalos (Insane Clown Posse fans). The FBI listed ICP as a dangerous gang, and, in many states, the group’s live shows were cancelled. Despite their music being banned in several countries and media outlets, this group continues to release music. Once a year the group and its fans come together for what’s known as The Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, Ohio. I thought to infiltrate the gathering to gain insight on this homicidal culture and hopefully develop a better understanding of how this all came to be.

Clowns always frightened me as a child, but one Halloween made it even worse. I was on a haunted house tour with my family when I accidentally was diverted. Not knowing I was alone for a while I wandered into a room full of killer-looking clowns and they all swarmed me at once. The quick outburst of them from every direction was so terrifying that I passed out right where I was standing and awoke in the hospital. I looked over to my mom and she said "They have something to say." I looked to my right side and I saw the clowns once again this time they looked even more evil. Once again I passed out.

Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

The second Klan was formed in Atlanta, Georgia. The pranks grew as the number of

The Cook County Sheriff’s Department in Illinois said that the newly identified victim was James Byron Haakenson, a 16-year-old boy who ran away from his home in St. Paul in the summer of 1976. The police found his body and 26 others in the crawl space beneath Mr. Gacy’s home in December 1978. Mr. Gacy was among the most prolific serial killers in American history. From 1972 to 1978, he lured or forced 33 teenage boys and young men — some of whom he employed at his construction business — to his home in suburban Chicago, where he murdered them. He sexually assaulted most of his victims as he tortured them to death and buried all but six of them beneath his house. Neighbors in Norwood Park Township, Ill., knew Mr. Gacy for his appearances at children’s parties where he performed as Pogo the Clown, a character he later painted or sketched numerous times while in

I went to the L Ross Gallery, 5040 Sanderlin Ave, Suite 104 Memphis, TN. The Artists were: Lisa Jennings, and Jeni Stallings. The exhibit was, “The Story Continues”, the analysis I will be using is expressive.

One student, Katelyn Bramble-Plotcher, had this to say about the threats made, “I think the whole clown situation was horrible and people need to think more of what they are doing. This caused many people fear and stress.”

The Quad City Clown Troupe is a life time member of the World Clown Association (WCA). The troupe is also a member of the Midwest Clown Association (MCA). The link to the MCA round-up information is: http://www.midwestclownassociation.org/2018-roundup.html. You will find more information there. You can also look through some of the pictures of previous round-ups.

“It” in its origins, is Stephen King’s 1100 page literary masterpiece that has bred Coulrophobia within many who dared to sojourn through the novel. Nevertheless, it was the novel’s subject in focus, Pennywise the Clown, embodied in full flesh by Tim Curry that amassed a sadistic following and obsession with the arrival of the 1990 TV miniseries on ABC. Curry’s portrayal of the dancing clown quickly became a hallmark image for the horror canon, if not the face of horror movies altogether. Flash forward 27 years later, the fear of clowns has burgeoned into a commonplace phobia and horror trope. With all this to say, no clown has terrorized us in our nightmares quite like Curry’s Pennywise. Well, that was the case until Bill Skarsgård came along with a darker rendition of the fiendish entity in Andrés Muschietti remake of “It.”

“Along with the story line about crime, there will usually be a personal story line so viewers have a chance to know the cops as characters” (Class Notes, para 5). This is best shown when the detective is meeting up for a date with his girlfriend who ended up not being able to come. While he was waiting at the bar a guy tried to fight him. He later finds out it was his girlfriend’s ex-husband trying to cause friction between all of them. Elementary does not fit the blueprint for a typical cop show. The public is to believe that the clown was possibly harmful or bad when all along one of the City’s public water workers was behind contaminating the water and hiring someone to do so. While this was happening, the clown saw him. Therefore, he got murdered. It was a line of crimes that happened but, the bad guy does not show up till middle/towards the end of the show. This gives Elementary a combination of multiple genre types that are similar to different types of cop shows.

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world

A major decision has been made through a vote of the membership. A member in good standing mentioned to the board that if someone was going to be part of the Quad City Clown Troupe then he/she should make some kind of commitment to the organization. That commitment was suggested as annual dues. The board discussed the issue and decided that it was best determined through a vote of the general membership.