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[stilltrucking]

just gorgeous, clown banner
made my day

you too young to remember 1950's wrestler named gorgeous george, he was the coolest guy of the fifties, well maybe wolf man jack was cooler. But he was kind of a liberace in wrestlers tights, he wore his hair in ringlets real peroxide white hair , he used to mince step around the ring commiting mayhem,


I think I am way over 5000 posts I was planing on a hiatus.

thanks

[stilltrucking]

I don't know why I knew it was your work, I dont know what mind scent I smelled, but it was a combination of the Bouquet of Nehi grape soda, bbble gum, and cotton candy.

I had after images of this banner against my eye lids as I fell asleep last night.

I joined the circus in Washington DC when at the tender age of 33 I ran away from home again. I have been a runner since 1948. I can't remember much about that year I was about seven and a half the first time I ran away.

[Doreen Peri]

He's the April Fool. I made him last year for April Fool's Day. Just clownin' around. He's sorta mixed up. His head's on the left and his leg's on the right.

[stilltrucking]

He's sorta mixed up.

That's my excuse too. :

Thanks

[dolphin girl]

Whoa


Hey ST didn't gorgous george wrestle in the 80's or was that a rip off of the original you speak of. Don't get into wrestling anymore,
to much mouth and show biz to be real anymore.



love lots.


love the colors. But not the clown, sorry personal thing with me and clowns--they scare the hell out of me.

Great work with the creation.

[stilltrucking]

I don't much follow wrestling either; I get bored pretty quick with it. I did not know about GG in the eighties. I am talking TV's the size of a washing machine and a screen the size of a dinner plate. And round too.

Clowns are scary. But they are sacred too. I was looking at the picture a lot. Looks like a yellow hand, a purple shirt and a checkered tie. It looks like a moon eclipsed in purple I like the clown too. This one is not signed so I was pretty sure it was Doreen's She has a serries of clown painting here on S8 somewhwere. I think it was stupid of me to say the scent of a woman's brain. I know we are wired different. Women have more gray matter men more white. And we some to come out even in the end, I mean we can reason together. But I am so far from women. I observe them from afar. Women and children are all that matter to me now. If I cannot be useful one way, I will find another. It is hard times for women and children. Hard on men too, but more times than not men are the problem. But everyman comes into the world an innocent baby. Maybe there are bad seeds. Some men are born with two Y-chromosomes. There are many men such as that in our prisons. I think we have a nut case in the oval office. Who ever that Christ he menions is I have no idea. Clowns have a long history in Christianity too.

I suppose my favorite clowns are Rodeo Clowns.

"Encyclopedia of Native American Religions, Updated Edition" New York: Facts on File, 2000.

"Clowns make people observe and think about things in new ways. By causing people to laugh, they clear worry from people's minds and permit them to see higher truths. They teach by "bad" example. They mock the order of the ritual, prayers, song, holy beings, and sacred objects. They joke, satirize, and behave contrarily. They do things that are forbidden and unspeakable within a ritual framework. They create imbalance and disorder in the world in the midst of ritualized social order. Without the clown's disorder, order would not be so obvious and so justified."

[stilltrucking]

Heyoka, roughly translated, means "Clown". INNER Heyoka as used on this website, refers to works more in the Spiritual (soul) area. The "Essenes" of the North American Natives.


Clowns are the only ones who can “ask why” of dangerous subjects or “ask why” of those people who are specialist in advanced sacred knowledge. They ask in their backwards language, through their satire, and their fooling around. They ask the questions others would like to say they say the things others are afraid to speak Jokes, puns, and satire are forms of humor that are important teaching tools. By reading between the lines the audience is able to think about things not usually thought about or cause them to look at some things in a different aspect.

Clowns have an important role in terms of portraying and symbolizing concepts. Clowns portray the boundaries and the limits of the world by going beyond them, acting in a non-ordinary way while doing so, and in this way contrast they own contrary behavior with the orderly ritual directions and scared worlds.

http://www.redelk.net/website/heyoka.htm

[Ann Bingham]

I only scaned thru the site. Something that struck me was how the Heyoka resembles that of the medicine man.

Have you ever read the book Hanta Yo, which translated means Clear the Way? It is a rather long book, one of very few that I have actually read.

Sorry I ramble now.

[stilltrucking]

Hanta Yo

No but I will check it out. I have only finished two books in the past year. One of them was not quite a book, I think it is what they call an "ook" I hardly read anymore except for studio eight. The other book I finished was called "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth. I pick up about a hundred books for every one I actualy read. I have books that I have been reading for over thirty years. One is called Life Against Death and the Other is called THe Phenomenology of Internal TIme Consciousness. I picked them up back in the the seventies. I may have acutally finished them but I am not sure I don't always read cover to cover. I pick at some books read a chapter here and there and before I know it seems every page has annotations on it.

Some books I read over and over. The Bell Jar I have read 15 or twenty times maybe only ten, at least ten, well I remember the ninth time I read it because I made a mental note. I have always been big on falling in love with fictitious women. I think the first one was Rebecca in Ivanhoe. Another book I have read over and over and over is called A Confederacy Of Dunces. That guy wrote my life story.

ramble you said? yeah tell me about it

[Ann Bingham]

~GO

AB

[Ann Bingham]

New Banner, New Banner.


Love this one Doreen. So Spring(ie or y) anyways sure sets a mood.

[stilltrucking]

Green green
stuck my head out of doors
and much to my suprise
the world turned green overnight

Beautiful picture Kurt
thank you
so Zen

[stilltrucking]

rail road tracks to the clouds
looks like rain and trains
thanks barry

[stilltrucking]

I have seen this sunrise/sunset? before I think. That water looks so calm. This is a DP shot? I think I have asked these questions before

I like the fonts. they seen to take flight white birds

[Doreen Peri]

The sunset is an old one, yeah.... a photo I took at the ocean last year. When they don't have anybody else's name on them, they're my artwork or photography. Maybe I should add my name to the ones which are mine. I just haven't done that because I thought it would be sorta... how shall i say it? gratuitous? i donno.. you know what I mean. But we'll see. I might add my name. I mean, I credit everybody else for theirs! lol

Thank you, 'truckin and Deb, for your comments on the banners. I wish I could keep this thread updated more often with the images. Hoping to do that later today.

-d