Auntie B Answers

Welcome to mi webseat (Anancy sey to fly)! Ah doan know much bout webside manners, but if you have any problems check out webhead in the caves. Alright?

Clown Friend (CF): Omigosh! This is amazing! Your brain sees connections everywhere. It's almost as if you're mad (in the nicest possible way).

Auntie B (AB): Ha! You hit it spot on the clown nose. I am mad; not almost, but stark raving. In high school they called me Mad Doc. Sundoc is the evolution of that. I went into psychiatry primarily to learn how best to stay out.

It's not my brain that makes the connections, that's just how the universe works. Sometimes I'm a little more in tune than others.

CF: I had no idea there were so many clowns all around the place.

AB: We're all clowns. Some of us just pretend differently.

CF: Er, not to be indiscreet, but on a Jamaican web seat people expect less palefaces…Don't you have any darker clown pictures?

AB: Lawks, is true! I never noticed. Clowns are colour blind, you see. That's why they have such awful colour combos. These are just folks from the Healing through Humour Tour in 2003. I can't change nuhbody skin colour. And I don't want to; I love variety. Wid paint pon dem face, clown brethren and sistren colourful enough!

The other day some guy was pssting me, calling me "Browning". I didn't turn my head coz that's not who I am. Then he said "Bag lady!" I had dis big orange market bag (to reduce plastic waste when shopping). That tickled me, coz I really am a bag lady. So I laughed and waved. I told him why I don't respond to "Brownin" for purpose. He say a so Jamaican man dem tan. I know that. But it's not my way, so I don't support it by paying mind to people who choose to label that way.

CF: Speaking of pictures, you don't have a prettier one for the greeting? You might put people off with that.

AB: War is an ugly thing. It mash up more than faces. How you can smile when you're calling people to war? Later, when I'm peaceful, my face change…don't?

Police Clown Friend: In your application for the demo you say you're angry. How can a clown be angry?

AB: (PAUSE) ah true! Ha, ha, ha, ha!

CF: Sorry about the colour comment. I meant no offence.

AB: None taken. Why should I take offence where none is given? Sometimes I don't even take it when somebody's pushing it. It depends on my mood and state of mind. I like when folks speak out honestly and directly to me face. Respectful communication allows us to understand each other better and that's the best way to make peace, whether in an office, a country, a world. Or a webspace.

Thanks for walkin a ways wid me. Walk good, clown friends. Ah gawn.