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Thursday, October 07, 2004
Posted
8:45 AM
by Angie Schultz
Lileks remarks on a Che Guevara doll he found in a card store. It's not like Lileks to miss a trick in googling a link, but he does. So I did it for him. Here's a site where you can buy the Che doll:
Ah, post-modern ironic attitude. Har! Che's part of the Little Stink -- oh, I mean -- Little Thinkers series of dolls, which includes Einstein, Freud, and artists like Monet, Kahlo, and Van Gogh, who I did not realize classed as "thinkers". ("Little Thinkers" might refer to the people who buy them in the belief that they're intellectuals, I suppose.) The Einstein doll is cute:
He looks extremely irritated at the prospect. I want a Nietzsche doll. Nietzsche -- or Stalin, take your pick. Could also be Hitler if you squint. There's also a Karl Marx. The Freud doll plays music, just in case he wasn't creepy enough. Hey, everybody, meet WEB Dubois, guest-starring on South Park!
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