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Friday, April 28, 2006

VW is for Beaver

Posted by on April 28 at 13:44 PM

Today my friend Lesley Hazleton, an English novelist who lives and works in Seattle, sent me this image. As you can see, it is, in essence, a hyper-feminine fantasy.

The story behind the beavered vehicle is this:

The police of Los Angeles recently found some amusement filling out papers to register a series of car accidents.


As it turned out, drivers were losing control and running into
other vehicles upon seeing a giant women’s pubis displayed on the
front part of an oncoming car.

The LA police started frantically looking for the dangerous pubis
and came upon the tracks of a young hairdresser named Nelly Node.
Nelly’s passion for the arts made the young woman photograph her own
crotch and put the zoomed picture on her Volkswagen Beetle.

Nelly decided to use such a shameless method to prepare her
college course work in which she analyzed the art of design.

The witty student’s idea worked for the college professors. She
was proudly driving her “pubic beetle” until the police arrested the
woman.

The court ruled that Nelly’s car was creating a dangerous situation on the roads. The girl had to paint over her car’s hood.

Yesterday my friend Nic Veroli, a French philosopher who lives and works in Seattle, sent me this link to short movie. Watch it to the end and you will see that it is, in essence, a hyper-masculine fantasy.


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I had seen the Claude Lelouch video before, but placed in juxtaposition with the 'pubic beetle' makes it twice as amusing. Glad I wasn't in Paris or LA recently, though.

Could someone please explain why any "dangerous pubis" painted onto a car would be a hyper-feminine fantasy?

It seems much more like a self-exploitive version of that infamous SNL commercial for the Mercury Mistress. http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/mercury-mistress.html

I love the drive through Paris, though.

That is a KICK-ASS video.

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