Saturday, November 12, 2011

Christmas ornaments of nightmares

This is a bizarre mannequin is the eldrich, strange stuff of modern Lovecraftian nightmares.
I do not understand how a naked ornament-headed elongated alien -- in a festive red scarf -- can possibly help a department store sell more items. Is it meant to encourage my purchase of a giant ornament? or a giant collection of ornaments? or scarves, to help my head swell and my limbs lengthen somehow?

This post's theme word is fossorial, "adapted for digging" (like limbs or feet). The anomalous alien's head is hypothesized to be fossorial.

2 comments:

Quellan said...

If you believe that any publicity is good publicity, then if nothing else, the ornament has generated some small amount of that.

Lila is a complex system. said...

@Quellan: True. But I did not say which department store featured this abomination, so this is not really publicity for anything except myself. As are all personal blogs.