#circus folk

[thethirdbear]

[poetry-reruns]

Well duck me, Tuesday again

[kecobe]

Zirkusgruppe, Köln, 1924 = Circus Group, Cologne, 1924 August Sander (German; 1876–1964) Gelatin silver print, large format print, printed in 1990 by Gerd Sander; edition no. 8/12 WestLicht, Vienna

[seanotturom]

lucien ravaging the mind of the person who helped molly piece his back together when he was still a frightened newborn calling himself M.T.

...........pain, suffering even

[evilhorse]

And for some gazing down on the crumpled body of what was once Boston Brand, there is only shock...

[babygruenwald]

A popular fad among college students and circus folk of the late 30s, syrup burgers, because of their sticky goodness, were meant to be eaten with knife and fork, as ably demonstrated here by Dolly McMansion, a much sought-after Rita Hayworth look-alike and Navajo code talker.

Unfortunately, when the US entered the war in 1941, the maple syrup integral to the syrup burger had to be diverted to fueling the engines of our fighter planes, which burnt a mix of syrup infused with liquified paraffin in order to turn their massive propellers.

Buying up Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserves at the first hint of conflict, Baby Gruenwald is said to have made an outrageous profit on the war.

[stone-cold-groove]

For circus folk only.

[mexcine]

"Go ahead and laugh! Now you know why I didn't want you to meet my parents! *sob* They're freaks in a sideshow!" (Exotic Romances 25, 1956). "Stop that, Ava! You're hurting the three people in the world who love you most!"

Hey, Lonnie -- Ava's mother might be a plus-size lady, but it's cruel to count her as two people.

Romance comics often addressed some of the concerns of young women (young people in general, really), albeit occasionally in oblique ways. Fear that one's parents aren't "cool" is a common adolescent/teen attitude: in romance comics this could be physical difference (as in Ava's case), socio-economic class difference, and even national origin (assimilated children ashamed of immigrant parents, for example).