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Depression-Era Blingee Discovered

WTF?To illustrate some op-ed about Ferdinand Pecora — the brave New York prosecutor of financial fraudsters who did some congressional hearing at the end of Hoover’s presidency — the New York Times dug up this ancient Blingee. There is no explanation for this bizarre old-timey example of a blinged-out spliff-smokin’ Hero of the Depression, and the bland Associated Press photo credit only adds to the Mystery. UPDATE: Oh, this is intended to be art, by an artist. So a blingee that doesn’t move is now considered Art, the end. [NYT via Wonkette tipster Daisy Chain]


1:52 PM on Tue January 6 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. NoWireHangers says at 1:53 pm, January 6th, 2009

    This discovery is right up there with the discovery of the ancient LOL cat.

    http://gawker.com/5100366/ancient-pre+internet-lolcat-discovered

  2. Serolf Divad says at 1:54 pm, January 6th, 2009

    That’s nothing. A couple of years ago some archaeologists in Hawara Egypt dug up a 3000 year old mummified LOLCAT.

  3. Serolf Divad says at 1:55 pm, January 6th, 2009

    NoWireHangers:

    OMFG, jinx!

  4. whatever_dc says at 1:57 pm, January 6th, 2009

    why hasn’t there been any discussion of my hero and mentor ann coulter (the greatest drag queen in the history of the earth) and the atrocity of cancelling her appearance on the today show???

  5. when can we have the Cynthia McKinney Blingee contest I’ve been begging for? please please please

  6. magic titty says at 1:58 pm, January 6th, 2009

    I don’t like Depression-era Blingees. They’re all in black and white and people just don’t pose like that in real life.

  7. I didn’t know Ralph Nader was that young.

  8. magic titty says at 2:01 pm, January 6th, 2009

    GDTRFB: I want one of Kathryn Jean Lopez. Now.

  9. hockeymom says at 2:01 pm, January 6th, 2009

    I’m partial to the unicorn on his shoulder.

  10. chascates says at 2:01 pm, January 6th, 2009

    I’ve read the Times had an advertisement on Page One so this sort of thing is to be expected now. Gray Lady down.

  11. mattbolt says at 2:02 pm, January 6th, 2009

    That reminds me of a story of a young Lyndon Baines Johnson who, one brisk November morning in the late 1940s, decided he would purchase a gramophone record of popular recording artist Bing Crosby. Instead, upon putting needle to groove later that day, he was met with the smooth baritone of Dick Haymes. Curses, someone had switched the covers on the records as a deliberate prank! Bitch got Dickroll’d.

  12. SayItWithWookies says at 2:02 pm, January 6th, 2009

    I want a copy of that — it’ll go really well with my gramophone recording of “Warren Gamaliel the Magic Octaroon.”

  13. FreshCliches says at 2:05 pm, January 6th, 2009

    This is as good a place as any for me to relay then news that, whoever (I forgot) requested in a prior thread that a TruckNutz® Blingee stamp be created, well….I’m working on it. They’ll be a-swingin’ by tomorrow.

    I’m only using the “flesh” and blue models, though, as they’re primarily the colors representative of my own.

  14. magic titty: Um, togehter??? Now that would really bring out the magic of Photoshp and Blingy (unless by some freak twist of fate there is actually a real picture of the two).

    McKinney/Lopez 2012!!!!

  15. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:06 pm, January 6th, 2009

    TJBeck: His hummus sucked then, too.

  16. Delicious says at 2:09 pm, January 6th, 2009

    To paraphrase an old boss:

    There are no new stories in this world.

    Just new idiots who think they are new stories.

  17. damn, Ye Olde Blingee is actually The New Blingee knock off, by modern crap artist Ted McGrath.

    http://www.tedmcgrath.com

  18. WadISay says at 2:16 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Ken, in the future, kindly specify which Depression Era you’re referring to.

  19. Yea, the Ted McGrath fellow evidently makes a living doing horrible, amateurish, worthless and totally unoriginal work that closely mimics the output of pre-adolescent teenage girls and gets published in the New York Times.

    He’s the Bill Kristol of the art world.

  20. Serolf Divad says at 2:25 pm, January 6th, 2009

    whatever_dc:

    If I recall correctly, there’s a strictly enforced “no Ann Coulter” policy on Wonkette.

    Which I applaud, BTW.

  21. TJBeck: I dig his work, but then I am fairly immature.

  22. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:35 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: I would literally stop visiting this IMMATURE and FRAT BOY COCK ridden website if Coulter appeared, if only for a moment.

  23. Colander says at 2:36 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Ken, where are you from? Your slang is sinuous yet dizzying.

  24. Kev-O-Tron says at 2:47 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: shortsshortsshorts: full agreement. She just needs to go away.

    Besides, I hear confluence is ALL OVER THAT with TRUE librul spirit while we sit here drinking budweiser from party cups and being all fauxgressive and shit.

  25. Aren’t greed and avarice the same thing?

  26. Meaux: http://www.tedmcgrath.com/bipolar.html

    Maybe some stuff is passable, but the times blingee line that link above is crap. It would have been cutting edge in 1930, maybe.

  27. America needs yet another aggressive spliff-smoker to rescue us so that we may cover him in blingee. In Roman times it was the Triumphal Parade and now it’s just fucking valueless blinking, glittering pixels: the Decline of Mankind.

  28. assistant/atlas says at 3:50 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Wait, I’m confused…some artist is presumably getting paid by the NYT to put Blingees on old Depression-era photos?

    With whom EXACTLY do I have to have the buttsecs to get this job?

  29. Finally one of these that doesn’t trigger a three day long migraine.

  30. ShamWow says at 4:47 pm, January 6th, 2009

    Min: Yes, and I only know this thanks to the Seven Deadly Sins week on History

  31. grevillea says at 5:19 pm, January 6th, 2009

    NYT rebuilds circulation in crucial self-harming teens demographic.

  32. daisy chain says at 11:18 pm, January 6th, 2009

    I have yet to get my answer. Srsly. WHY? IS? THAT? PICTURE? BLINGEED? I’m confused and scared and I want to go home.

  33. hobospacejungle says at 5:23 am, January 7th, 2009

    daisy chain: I’m with you. What the fuck, New York Times? Have you lost your mind?

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