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Haiku Movie Review: Penelope

Filed under: Beckhams, Beckhams Art, Haiku Movie Reviews

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Wednesday Adams plays

Posh Spice, only with cheaper

clothes and less make-up

Introducing Haiku movie reviews by Circus Hour reader and friend Viper Tetsu. This week Viper reviews Penelope, a movie about a girl born with the nose of a pig. For more amusing pop-culture inspired haiku, see Viper’s blog In The Future, Everyone Will Be Haiku’ed For 15 Minutes. …


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Posted by 14February 29, 2008

Deconstructing Beauty Cream Ads

Filed under: Beauty

nanobs.jpgThe NanoRevive beauty cream ad you see above isn’t real, but it could be.  I’ve been poring through fashion and beauty magazines lately and studied ad claims found in many of the skin care products and found the following common elements: Scientific imagery such as DNA strands or chains of molecules are pictured swirling provocatively around the product. Nifty scientific terms such as nano, cellular and matrix give the impression the product was created by white-coat wearing Swiss scientists. Lots of flowers, preferably shown dappled with dew.  Yes, you too …


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Posted by 14February 28, 2008

Tom Cruise, The Most Popular Freak in the Circus

Filed under: Crazy Clowns, Featured, Freak Show Posters, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise Art

tomfreak.jpgHurry, hurry, step right up and see the Tom Cruise, Scientologist, pictured in his natural environment on the distant planet Xorzax. Prepare to be amazed as the L. Ron Hubbard spaceship beams top-secret information from the Galactic Confederacy directly into Tom’s cerebral cortex and then marvel as Tom jumps around and cackles as he incoherently spews Hubbard’s thought rays out his mouth and into the collective consciousness of any Earthling that will listen. Many Earthlings simply ignore or find fleeting entertainment in …


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Posted by 14February 26, 2008

Paris Hilton’s Very Own Freak Show Poster

Filed under: Featured, Freak Show Posters, Paris Hilton, Paris Hilton Art

giganto-hands.jpgPoor Paris, when will the unforgiving public start noticing her vast talent, her selfless contributions to society, her important brand status of “like, a businesswoman”….anything other than the fact she has huge hands, hypertrophied feet, a low dull hum of a personality, an oddly shaped behind (and we all know every unfortunate inch of her intimate parts thanks to the Internet) and her charming little wonk eye? She’s a brand, folks. Don’t you understand? She’s one of America’s most …


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Posted by 14February 21, 2008

Gallery of the Absurd To Become Circus Hour Media

Filed under: Freak Show Posters, Lindsay Lohan Art

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 It brings me great waves of shuddering pleasure to finally announce my new venture. As some of you might have noticed, I’ve been collaborating a great deal with Candy Kirby from the celebrity satire blog Holy Candy. She and I had so much fun brainstorming and creating projects together that we decided to merge our two sites into a brand new one, which will be an even bigger and better version of our sites. Starting this Wednesday, February 20th, Gallery of the …


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Posted by 14February 19, 2008

Valentines Galore!

Filed under: Valentines

Looking for an assortment of romantic sentiment and passionate prose to send your sweetie? Look no further.

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What could be more romantic than Paris Hilton and her giant paws engaged in a booze-addled passionate grope with Jared Leto during a late night public make-out session in a smoky LA nightclub?

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Don’t have a special someone to shower with gifts of waxy Whitman’s Samplers and mylar balloon bouquets this Valentine’s …


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Posted by 14February 14, 2008

Star Jones Finds New Job With Family Dollar Store

Filed under: Star Jones, Star Jones Art

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 Star Jones Reynolds hasn’t had much luck in the employment department over the past couple years, from famously getting dumped by Barbara Walters to recently having TruTV ax “The Star Jones Show” after only a six-month run.But wait…! No need to open your wallet and donate to the Star Jones Giuseppe Zanotti Stiletto Fund just yet. Thankfully, Star has landed on her feet with a new, glamorous position for which she must travel all over the country — and we were lucky enough …


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Posted by 14February 7, 2008