Pinocchio sticker added to back of post cardThis sticker of Pinocchio (at left) is on the back of the very un-Pinocchio card pictured below, with the following printed in bold type:
"'Brave Pinocchio, you showed courage and a loving heart for your father. You are forgiven for your past misdeeds,' said the blue fairy."
The front of the card (below) is one of the more mysterious images of my collection, and one that puzzles me still. Perhaps there's a whole subtext to the Pinocchio story I missed. A very, very disturbing one at that: there's a menacing sea creature, along with a dog leaping into the water (does the exclamation point signify he might be having a few doubts?), the fish with teeth ready to tear the flesh from his bones.
"'Brave Pinocchio, you showed courage and a loving heart for your father. You are forgiven for your past misdeeds,' said the blue fairy."
The front of the card (below) is one of the more mysterious images of my collection, and one that puzzles me still. Perhaps there's a whole subtext to the Pinocchio story I missed. A very, very disturbing one at that: there's a menacing sea creature, along with a dog leaping into the water (does the exclamation point signify he might be having a few doubts?), the fish with teeth ready to tear the flesh from his bones.
Strange. Maybe "Pinocchio" reads differently in the original Italian?
At any rate, the card was sent by my sister Joan in 1996, from Minneapolis. She felt bad for not ordering some geraniums.
At any rate, the card was sent by my sister Joan in 1996, from Minneapolis. She felt bad for not ordering some geraniums.
Another notch up on the anxiety scale is global annihilation. Below is the very realistic rendering of what such a colorful -- one might say once-in-a-lifetime -- event might look like: "The Devil on Patrol." Just to make sure the viewer knows that Satan is up to no good, it says so right there in parentheses.
On the flip, there's more: "No. 5, 1001 Ideas for Sinners." Designed by John Stalin for Artists' Rifles, London, 1983. With an advertising pitch aimed straight for the heart of any Armageddon-fearing paranoid or man-about-town:
Complete set of eighteen designs plus two bonus cards. Merry new year! Big Brother is watching YOU. Large color poster by John Stalin. Not subtle.
Published by SMERSH, Old Gloucester Street, London. The cold war was still hot. That Stalin name carried that old "Internationale" magic.
Yet another card from my sister Joan: 2006. A birthday this time. (I got a mobile for my living room. No geraniums, though.)
Complete set of eighteen designs plus two bonus cards. Merry new year! Big Brother is watching YOU. Large color poster by John Stalin. Not subtle.
Published by SMERSH, Old Gloucester Street, London. The cold war was still hot. That Stalin name carried that old "Internationale" magic.
Yet another card from my sister Joan: 2006. A birthday this time. (I got a mobile for my living room. No geraniums, though.)
2 comments:
Is that jet flying into a really big vagina ....or is it just me?
Yep, just you ... and Satan, of course. Everyone else just sees a large heavenly bagel.
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