The Peppermint Gates of Fun Valley
Not only is 1964’s Little Golden Book The Good Humor Man a great example of early product placement (masquerading as a treatise on the delights of suburban life in the summertime, there’s hardly a page that doesn’t sing the praises of licking Good Humor brand ice cream), it’s also riddled with vague and not-so-vague homoerotic references (see images). At least they seem that way to us, seen through modern eyes conditioned by media to scan constantly for veiled references. We could be wrong - it could all be completely innocent, the naive voice of an older writer creating a children’s book in the early 60s. Regardless, the book is a gas. Miles, of course, is blissfully unaware of the undertones - he’s more concerned that Bobby left his boats to go get ice cream, and the fact that the bunny rabbits hanging out by the fence didn’t get a lick.
September 1st, 2004 at 7:39 am
And then there’s also the alliterations throughout. Kids like that a lot. “Granny Griggs”, “friendly flakey frostee”, etc. It’s cheap and below-the-belt writing, but it somehow works.
The most popular comics series in Belgium - Suske en Wiske - uses alliterations for all of its titles, hundreds of them.
September 1st, 2004 at 7:45 am
And then there’s also the alliterations throughout. Kids like that a lot. “Granny Griggs”, “friendly flakey frostee”, etc. It’s cheap and below-the-belt writing, but it somehow works.
The most popular comics series in Belgium - Suske en Wiske - uses alliterations for all of its titles, hundreds of them.
September 1st, 2004 at 11:26 am
I think this bill needs to be amended to reflect how we’ll suffer from the ideals of its authors. Namely:
INDUCE-Victims Of Morally Intransigent Thought
I’ll let you make the acronym.
September 1st, 2004 at 11:27 am
And I think I should drink more coffee prior to blog commenting in the morning. Man, I suck.