4 posts tagged “dolls”
Says
Feel my ribs
Hear my voices
See my eyes roll
This is like, what? A doll for THE EXORCIST? I love to think of the R&D team who identified a need and filled it with this toy. Sadly, I didn't find any photos of the original dolly. I came across this 1930s ad at dollreference.com, here, where indeed, it is affirmed that in addition to "squeaker voice in legs", one "can feel the doll's ribs".
Speaking of feeling ribs, I've lost almost 20 pounds since the beginning of July, which makes me officially not-overweight. I'd still like to get back to my "favorite weight" range, which is at least 10 pounds away That would be a lovely thing for the new year, and a dramatically different paradigm - beginning the new year with my new year's resolution already resolved. To continue in this fashion, I would need to fail to resolve to start exercising regularly, say, in 2007, and then do it. This appeals to Obtuse Me.
Anyway, as to the weight loss, I knew that I was losing it little by little, because I've been checking the scales (not every day... and for a while now, only about once a week - the last three pounds were a total surprise!), but since it's been gradual, I didn't really feel or seem to look (to my eyes) that much different. Until it got colder. I recently pulled out some of my winter clothes, and found, to my delight, that my old winter trousers now look kind of like clown pants on me... or maybe something worn by an aging hiphopper who really doesn't "get it". These pants I'm wearing right now? I could totally fit a whole other butt in here. Heh.
Found Poems on the theme of Passion Served Chilled:
Pink
Beautiful dark haired
Frozen Charlie.
Entire body is tinted pink
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Clenched
Frozen "Charlie" in a trunk...
blue painted eyes, smiling mouth,
black short hair with
brush strokes around face,
arms outstretched, clenched.
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Some of the most fascinating Frozen Charlie images can be found via an Ebay search, like the rather haunting Charlie I used as my top photo The range of expression, from utterly vapid, to fairly surly, is great. This guy, for example, looks like he should be called "Flaming Charlie" (face close up here). I call this guy "Frozen Charles". He's my frozen crush.
From the same site as below, several pages about a peculiarly charming doll called "Scarey Ann".
Some Scarey Ann found poems:
This is what Happens
This is what happens
when the lever
is pushed!
Ann's hair stands up.
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Missing
This is the professor.
His hat rim is missing
and his go-tee is missing.
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Very Rare
This is the only
"left looking" Ann
I have seen.
Must be very rare.
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What is Known
The chinaman
is known
in both swinging
and fixed arms versions
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A Popular Figure
The Sailor
must have been
a popular figure.
Hat and nose move
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From this page, and this page; more Scarey Ann info here (scroll down for more photos) and here (the patent).
So, I've been looking at a lot of antique toys and dolls recently, though I'm not a collector type, and some sites keep reeling me in every time I stumble back over them because I keep finding pages of text and images just strike me as irresistibly poetically surreal, and I thought I might share a few of them today:
Images from this page at oldwoodtoys.com. From the same page, a couple of accidental poems on the theme of Time, Adversity, and possibly Mischance:
Long Ago
Parts for Negro Dude, ca. 1920.
Repainted long ago.
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Long Ago ii
Hobo with very nice suit.
No hat belt or scarf.
Head repainted long ago.
