Posted inData+Errata

“Eyebombing” – when the uncanny is cute

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..."
December 25, 2011Posted inData+Errata
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Veinz 57

Spotted in the grocer's the other day: the ketchup critter vampire: http://www.evriholder.com/Ketchup-Kritter-Mustard-Monster.aspLook for future faux squeeze bottles of blood in the lineup, like The Bulbous Tick Head and The Happy Funtime IV Needle.
August 21, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange