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!

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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