Follies of the Mad Men #187

If Zu Zu were witnessed offering cookies to a child today, he'd be in the sniperscopes of a SWAT team's rifles faster than a cocaine-covered bank robber.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 03, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Clowns, Food, 1900s

The Art of John Wayne Gacy

WU readers are surely familiar with John Wayne Gacy, if only because his middle name is Wayne. Convicted of at least 33 murders. He liked to dress as Pogo the Clown at charity events. Executed in 1994. And (what I didn't know) is that he took up art while in prison. He liked to paint Disney characters, clowns, and skulls.

According to Wikipedia: "Exhibitions of Gacy's artwork have been held since the 1980s and continue to be held. Gacy dismissed criticism that he was permitted to keep money from the sale of his paintings, claiming his artwork was intended 'to bring joy into people's lives'."

Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 01, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Art, Clowns, Crime

Zombie Clown

Don't Touch My Cookies - Tidewaterdeadfish from Jay Sharp on Vimeo.

Do we try to make amends for creating occasional incidents of reader dissatisfaction here at Weird Universe? Of course we do! For all those unamused and/or bored by the "Happy Hunter" post, here's your supplemental dose of excitement for today.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 09, 2010 - Comments (1)
Category: Clowns, Horror, Brain Damage

Modern Zoot Suits

If you're like me, you thought that "zoot suits" were a dead fashion from the 1940s. No way!

Check out the rainbow of choices here.

Happy mack-daddying!

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 06, 2010 - Comments (15)
Category: Clowns, Fashion, 1940s

Crimebo the Clown

Read about Crimebo here.

Posted By: Paul - Sat May 15, 2010 - Comments (3)
Category: Clowns, Crime, Sightseeing

Clowning Around

In the body of Florida's laws, there are bound to be quite a few that defy explanation. For example, Florida statute 876.13 which states: No person or persons shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the state. That said, we can now understand what the cop was thinking when he arrested 18 year old Matthew David Lopez on Tuesday. Because Mr. Lopez was walking down a public street wearing a clown mask and orange wig. You can read about his arrest here. The reader comments range from jokes about the stupidity of the police for turning this into an arrest in the first place, to those who defend the cop's actions, and those who insist that if the police want to arrest anyone for this, it ought to be aimed at Muslim women who wear the niqab (face veil).

Posted By: Nethie - Thu Feb 25, 2010 - Comments (5)
Category: Clowns, Costumes and Masks, Crime

Evil Clown Car

Continuing WU's focus on clowns good and evil, here we see a photo of some bad ones, courtesy of Jeff Balke's Flickr page. The photo was taken at a Houston, Texas, parade, so WU readers in that vicinity who have clown-o-phobia need to be on the alert.

Posted By: Paul - Fri May 15, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Clowns, Regionalism, Cars

Ruffles the Clown

The horror, the horror....

Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 21, 2009 - Comments (12)
Category: Clowns, Children

The Show-Off

I suspect that most WU readers will identify with the bad boy, rather than with the prissy narrator here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 11, 2009 - Comments (11)
Category: Clowns, Education, Movies, Documentaries, Teenagers, 1950s