Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postcards. Show all posts

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.