stereo jack's takes aim

(Stero Jack's, Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA)

are you sensing a theme?

It's not my intention to start some kind of clown cult, I swear. I just grab pictures of things that draw my attention.

In this case, it's not the clown so much as the fact that this particular toy is one I'd completely forgotten about until my sister and I found it at my grandmother's house over Christmas. Who knows how many kids have been given nightmares by its like over the years?

This is just one of a whole collection of interlocking, vaguely human-shaped, wooden clowns. If you'll note, the shape of the thing's head is exactly the same as the negative spaces that fit into each of its shoulders. Very Escheresque. You're supposed to fit them together like they're insane, utterly still acrobats, from their stubby legs and squashed feet to their pointy shoulders and creepily truncated hands.

That's Bill Ding, folks. Isn't he great?