Keeping Up with Cuntybaws
Rough Draft 6/14/01
Keeping Up with the Undead
A tall balding man with visible follicle implants and a salon tan is waiting impatiently in line in a large department store that smeels of men’s cologne, and, faintly, of leather shoes. His gym-built arms are stretched around several pairs ofCalvin Klein jeans, Polo shirts, Tommy Hilfiger shorts and a pair of disturningly skimpy designrer briefs. As the cashier rings up his purchases, he roots around in his pockets, hands bumping against a slim pack of Ginko-Bilboa Memory Gum, Energy-Mints, and a small vial of extr-strength vitamins before finally fishing out a Visa Platinum. The card, having surpassed its $5,000 limit is regretfully declined. “I’m a loyal customer,” the man protests angrily. “I’m a good consumer and I should be rewarded.”
In a book shop two stores down, customers are eagerly lining up to buy the new Anne Rice novel, the latests addistion to her vampire series. The movie-theater across the street is showing Dracula:2000 ($8 a ticket) to a huge, soda-slurping audience. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mesa a small group of believers are eagerly paying their leader dues of thousands of dollars a year in exchange for his promises of immortality. The cryogenics business is booming.
America in the 1950’s; the chaos and rationing of World War II has given way to bland, bloated suburbia, and keeping up with the Jones’s is everyone’s favorite hobby. For the first time in American history there was a large population of young people with generous allowances and purchasing power. Both advertsisng and consumption rose exponentially; malls sprung up almost overnight. It was the beginning of the age of the Great American Consumer. Not coincidentally, it was also the beginning of America’s intense fascination with vampires. “American youth culture, the demographic legacy of World War II, began to exert its economic influence during the late 1950’s. The mass media responded swiftly….Horror imagery thrived.” (Cooper 31)—Interest in vampires rose concurrently with consumerism in 1950’s. In an economy based on consumption, the vampire has become the ultimate symbol of social power.
Prior to World War II consumption was viewd as a nessesay evil. By the 1960’s was ambiguous, and consumption was a virtue, practicly a patriotic responsibility. By 1961 shopping was elevated at an art when pop artist Oldenburg unveiled his Store, “his arty version of a Mom and Pop grocery. Here, ‘customers’ can purchase such Pop items as plaster ‘pastries’ and muslin and plaster ‘clothing.’” (Vincent 97)
the huge soda-slurp began well-nigh forty years ago,when dear uncle Joan fed me a steady diet of movie-theatre audicences, whom I crunched and munched, and then slurped a soda. the balding vulture lines his suit pocket with odorous pews; symbol of another life.odour odour makes me thinks really other fortune-chests will suit my beans and grovel. as Mr. LowlyBaws catches his knickers in a knot, we see: EVOLUTION IN ACTION. lowlybaws drowns in the grate of the gutter. his keys on the other side.
meanwhile, women and minority groups continued to make significant contributions.
meanwhile, women and minority groups continued to make significant contributions.
meanwhile, minority groups continued to make significant women.
meanwhile, heterophobes continued to make minorities signficant.
women, groups of minorities continued to meanwhile make heterophobes contribute.
oil to lointaine:
HEED my words, for they ring true:
I AM CUNTYBAWS.
Keeping Up with the Undead
A tall balding man with visible follicle implants and a salon tan is waiting impatiently in line in a large department store that smeels of men’s cologne, and, faintly, of leather shoes. His gym-built arms are stretched around several pairs ofCalvin Klein jeans, Polo shirts, Tommy Hilfiger shorts and a pair of disturningly skimpy designrer briefs. As the cashier rings up his purchases, he roots around in his pockets, hands bumping against a slim pack of Ginko-Bilboa Memory Gum, Energy-Mints, and a small vial of extr-strength vitamins before finally fishing out a Visa Platinum. The card, having surpassed its $5,000 limit is regretfully declined. “I’m a loyal customer,” the man protests angrily. “I’m a good consumer and I should be rewarded.”
In a book shop two stores down, customers are eagerly lining up to buy the new Anne Rice novel, the latests addistion to her vampire series. The movie-theater across the street is showing Dracula:2000 ($8 a ticket) to a huge, soda-slurping audience. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mesa a small group of believers are eagerly paying their leader dues of thousands of dollars a year in exchange for his promises of immortality. The cryogenics business is booming.
America in the 1950’s; the chaos and rationing of World War II has given way to bland, bloated suburbia, and keeping up with the Jones’s is everyone’s favorite hobby. For the first time in American history there was a large population of young people with generous allowances and purchasing power. Both advertsisng and consumption rose exponentially; malls sprung up almost overnight. It was the beginning of the age of the Great American Consumer. Not coincidentally, it was also the beginning of America’s intense fascination with vampires. “American youth culture, the demographic legacy of World War II, began to exert its economic influence during the late 1950’s. The mass media responded swiftly….Horror imagery thrived.” (Cooper 31)—Interest in vampires rose concurrently with consumerism in 1950’s. In an economy based on consumption, the vampire has become the ultimate symbol of social power.
Prior to World War II consumption was viewd as a nessesay evil. By the 1960’s was ambiguous, and consumption was a virtue, practicly a patriotic responsibility. By 1961 shopping was elevated at an art when pop artist Oldenburg unveiled his Store, “his arty version of a Mom and Pop grocery. Here, ‘customers’ can purchase such Pop items as plaster ‘pastries’ and muslin and plaster ‘clothing.’” (Vincent 97)
the huge soda-slurp began well-nigh forty years ago,when dear uncle Joan fed me a steady diet of movie-theatre audicences, whom I crunched and munched, and then slurped a soda. the balding vulture lines his suit pocket with odorous pews; symbol of another life.odour odour makes me thinks really other fortune-chests will suit my beans and grovel. as Mr. LowlyBaws catches his knickers in a knot, we see: EVOLUTION IN ACTION. lowlybaws drowns in the grate of the gutter. his keys on the other side.
meanwhile, women and minority groups continued to make significant contributions.
meanwhile, women and minority groups continued to make significant contributions.
meanwhile, minority groups continued to make significant women.
meanwhile, heterophobes continued to make minorities signficant.
women, groups of minorities continued to meanwhile make heterophobes contribute.
oil to lointaine:
HEED my words, for they ring true:
I AM CUNTYBAWS.
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