Sunday, December 12, 2010
A library mystery
Downtown is a department store with an enormous set of windows. Facing the walking/cycling street are the traditional mannequins, but along the breezeway is a series of promotions done by the library. One window has books about knitting and some yarn, another has travel guides and a map. One window has this poster, which says, "Fake or facts - sinister, crazy, scary facts from around the world," and in larger green letters says, "Another world." I get the paper in another language, the aliens, a UFO, but the Cleveland baseball team's logo? Any ideas?
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How random. Maybe a reference Ray Chapman? Though that wasn't the team mascot when he played. A reference to the river burning? Is there any way to find out?
ReplyDeleteThis is the website from the address listed on the poster, but it doesn't help me much.
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My guess is that the baseball team logo would fall into the "Can you believe it?" category. As in, "can you believe that in this day and age a sports team would still have such an offensive logo?" Since there is a lot of controversy about the image, and since it reproduces the same stereotypes as exaggerated grinning faces of black people from the era of blackface minstrelsy, that'd be my guess.
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