Twilight Of The Traveling Sideshow

“Fire-breathing bizarros are so hard to find these days. (No, Glenn Beck doesn’t count.) And when’s the last time you saw a girl change into a gorilla? A headless woman? The Human Blockhead? (Again, Glenn Beck doesn’t count.) What used to be a mainstay of American circuses and county fairs – the sideshow grotesquerie – is on its last legs.”