Wednesday, May 09, 2007

WHEN VICTORIAN MORALS AND BESTIALITY JOKES COLLIDE

In searching for an image of a giant man for that last post I hit a site called Postmark Press, which is run by a woman who works with images from old postcards. Hey, she's been on Martha Stewart Living, so it's more than just a hobby. There's lots of cool stuff there, including a postcard of a man who's very proud to live in Akron. And then there's this:



I'm still trying to get my mind wrapped around it.

Oddly enough it bears a striking resemblance to the DVD cover for Sleeping Dogs Lie, a Bobcat Goldthwait-directed movie that played Sundance under the name Stay and is apparently the as intelligent and insightful as any film about a youthful indiscretion involving an animal can be.

It's a terrible cover. But not, as it turns out, without precedent.

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