Site Meter Reflections on Playboy: The year before I was born, in a city thousands of miles away: the Jedi Bunny of my dreams

January 4, 2008

The year before I was born, in a city thousands of miles away: the Jedi Bunny of my dreams

I was 16 when the 35th-anniversary issue of Playboy (January 1989) came out. Thanks to the Playboy Cyber Club retrospective on the 35-anniversary Playmate hunt that appeared the other day, I felt that age again. However, I want to be sure not to overlook an accidental juxtaposition of two mythic pop-cultural elements that I noticed in the other “magazine classic” that has just been released: “Bunnies of New York” (May 1971).

Emily Brown, at the Club’s Living Room buffet above, is a stay-at-home who writes fairy tales.
Photography by Pompeo Posar
At least once on That ’70s Show, Donna scolds Eric about his habit of making gratuitous Star Wars analogies. I refuse to take the hint. Sorry. Those analogies are too useful and too much fun. The photography team, the model, and the caption writer generate a mood of such noble, tranquil, dreamy solitude that, despite the anachronism, it’s easier for me to believe that the shiny cylinder at the Bunny’s hip is a lightsaber than a coin dispenser. As enticingly beautiful as Emily Brown is, a man who disturbed her fairy-tale reverie by making a crude pass would be as doomed as Actaeon after his transgression against Artemis.

Artemis and Aphrodite save me from Playboy Enterprises’ copyright lawyers in 2008!

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Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 10:01 AM

  • Blogger PuNiaoPuNiao left this comment at January 7, 2008 7:39 AM  
    heh heh, love reading your blog too. thanks for commenting in mine too and best wishes for 2008..
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