And other oddly related stuff. A funny piece from 2007 by the novelist and Prairie Home Companion humorist. Just saw this reprinted in Funny Times, which I highly recommend you subscribe to.

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin