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Published 1984
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Published 1984
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July 21st, 2014 at 9:21 am
Pohlekornbluth. One of my favourite authors, he was. Jacob Algernon Pohlekornbluth.
July 21st, 2014 at 9:23 am
What a post you might say! That’s right… but I have to admit there has been a lack of movement on the website fixing. I fully expect it to break sometime this week again. But while I can post… why not!
I’m going to fix this, once all your cheques clear… I mean soon.
July 21st, 2014 at 9:23 am
“… and this piece is called ‘Mo Farrah Wearing A Bra, Angry Because His Arms Have Been Chopped Off’. It’s by Anthony Gormley.”
July 21st, 2014 at 9:36 am
“And that’s how Peter Goodfellow got banned from M&S Northampton…”
July 21st, 2014 at 9:43 am
“Mrs Slocombe, are you free – in the year 3000?!”
July 21st, 2014 at 10:00 am
I thought the bra was your new high-tech replacement for space sheep/CS Lewis. Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the image, and the bra remained in place. Go on, imagine it!
July 21st, 2014 at 11:10 am
Man, I’m depressed that in the future the same horrible pale pink shiny bra is still around.
July 21st, 2014 at 11:22 am
She grew up so quickly!
July 21st, 2014 at 11:39 am
The riddle of how she managed to put it on distracts us from the bigger conundrum of what the other things on plinths are. Between the ‘L’ in ‘Pohl’ and the ampersand is a Venus de Milo made of salmon mousse.
As it happens there IS a Venus in the book but it’s a planet.
July 21st, 2014 at 3:06 pm
The author’s name at a glance looks like it might be “Pohl & Kornbluth” as in, “Pohl & Kornbluth, purveyors of fine ladies undergarments”.
July 21st, 2014 at 3:24 pm
Before deciding on the evil T-1000 liquid metal design, Skynet had tested out various other terminators in order to destroy the young, horny, John Conner.
The most controversial was Braminator. This sexually charged machine was to use its heaving bossoms to entice John Conner into pre-marital groping. With his mind devoid of much blood, he would fail at leading the humans v the machines.
Other discarded models included Pantynator and Lingerienator. There was also a Biebernator in case John Conner turned out to like the boys more than the girls.
July 21st, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Where did the head come from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdbG1NFGiNM
July 21st, 2014 at 4:37 pm
@fred – Not sure I want to ask how you found that… or if you just remembered the advert…
How much does a space merchant charge for a bra?! How much… does the book tell you?!
July 21st, 2014 at 8:26 pm
The artist had just been to the pictures and had a very 80s idea of what was officially-designated as ‘cool’ (behold: http://culturevulture.net/film/culturevulture-net-review-120/).
July 21st, 2014 at 11:42 pm
Assuming the author gave this story some firm support, I think I would be hooked! Know what I mean, bra?
July 24th, 2014 at 12:33 am
…and somewhere a Victoria’s Secret Catalog editor just got a pile of copies with a “fingerrocket” on the cover and is really wondering how he’s going to explain this to the top brass…
July 24th, 2014 at 10:16 pm
The first and last SF cover that Jeff Koontz ever made.
July 28th, 2014 at 8:51 pm
I had no idea there was a demand for lingerie in space..
July 29th, 2014 at 12:25 am
@anon: You’re new here, aren’t you?
August 1st, 2014 at 10:40 pm
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth: Enough to warrant salesmen with half a mannequin, I mean.
August 14th, 2014 at 4:10 pm
The display window at The Space Merchants, with its retro-radical almost-Deco décor, compares favorably with those of Abercrombie and Fitch, but lacks the edginess of those of Saks or Macy’s.
The use of a bald sleek black armless half-mannequin, while popular among some of the more forward-thinking boutiques of the 1980s, is at strange odds with the old-fashioned pink satin longline bra it is wearing.
That, combined with the row of old-fashioned post office boxes on the right and the amorphous modern sculpture, vintage 1960, on the left, leads one to conclude that the merchandise of The Space Merchants is aimed at forward-thinking conservative old ladies who like to think they are kind of punk whilst wearing traditional underwear.
September 7th, 2014 at 3:51 pm
@Alessandra Kelley: …or aimed at new-wave/post-punk types who are really into traditional underwear..?