Here’s the latest entry posted to my Popular Uncanny weblog, musing over the cutely weird meme known as “Eyebombing” (eyebombing.com) — affixing googly eyes to inanimate objects in the public square — and how it taps into feelings of strange familiarity.
“Eyebombing is the Fozzie-Bearification of the community property — the Jim Hensoning of the public square. There is a return of the repressed invoked here, but it very well may a repressed belief in the power of folk art, which has been increasingly “surmounted” by technology…”