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Wednesday, 10 March 2004
This never happened to Dr. Who!

This weekend, while shopping for discounted calendars, I happened upon a daily desk calendar, festooned diurnally with pinup-girl paintings from the 1950s.

I had forgotten all about good old Art Frahm, who seems to have used his art as a vehicle for giving expression to his peculiar fetish. No mere gartered stockings or leather bustiers for Mr. Frahm; in his fantasy world, women's panties simply fell down around their ankles at the most inopportune times. Furthermore, as "Art Frahm: a study of the effects of celery on loose elastic" demonstrates, Apium graveolens was frequently — but not always — an integral part of this scenario.

But as weird as it may have been, it was also pretty clever; in a genre full of very similar paintings, his little quirk makes his works instantly recognizable.

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Comments
What a great gimmick - celery has it good.
Posted by Lisa on 5 Jan 2004 10:16
It was either celery or cucumbers, I suppose.
Posted by Ginevra on 5 Jan 2004 11:25
I will never look at celery the same way again.
Sid
Posted by Sid on 5 Jan 2004 16:28