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\"Headstand-46\"\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Henry Higgenbottom had an amazing talent. Welllll, maybe not so amazing as, lets say, ‘quirky’.\u00a0 You see, Henry could “headstand”.\u00a0 Yeah,\u00a0 not so amazing…but since nobody else could ever do it quite like him, it kinda became his ‘thing’.\u00a0 And despite all practical advice. he ‘did’ the crap out of his ‘thing’.\u00a0 He became a minor local celebrity (oddity), got his fifteen minutes of fame on the T.V. news and bartered that into a stint on the state carnival circuit which propelled him into a pretty good gig with a circus sideshow troupe as a ‘Tumbling Contortionist’.\u00a0 All things considered, however, his convulsive hiccupping act usually stole the spotlight (and all the laughs) and made his ‘headstand’ gimmick look pretty dull.\u00a0 But Henry never gave up on it.\u00a0 It was his own unique gift to the world, a sacred piece of his very soul and he made sure it was part of every show he did…..until one day he accidentally mixed his hiccups with his ‘headstand’ and so disrupted his specially balanced stance that he snapped his own ridiculous neck.<\/p>\n

***Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who\u00a0has seen\u00a0the image above seems to think it has some political meaning –\u00a0perhaps implying the state of the nation or of the American voting public… Bollocks and drivel!\u00a0 It is no such thing.\u00a0 Read the post!\u00a0 Its nothing more than a tragic fragment of an ambitious loser.\u00a0 We don’t do politics in this blog!<\/em><\/p>\n

John and I will\u00a0have a table\u00a0in Artist Alley\u00a0at the Newark Comic Con on Saturday, August 20 (1100 McCarter Hwy., Newark, NJ) where we will be presenting advance copies of\u00a0my new book, “Marsha Mellow’s Creepy Clown Coloring Book”,\u00a0as well as original art prints and copies of three books by our good friend Joe Del Priore.\u00a0 -Marsha\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Henry Higgenbottom had an amazing talent. Welllll, maybe not so amazing as, lets say, ‘quirky’.\u00a0 You see, Henry could “headstand”.\u00a0 Yeah,\u00a0 not so amazing…but since nobody else could ever do it quite like him, it kinda became his ‘thing’.\u00a0 And despite all practical advice. he ‘did’ the crap out of his ‘thing’.\u00a0 He became … Continue reading Headstand<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,109],"tags":[210,209,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}