..Or is it the other way around?
UPDATED: No, on second glance I take it all back. There is really absolutely nothing funny about these soul-destroying little glimpses of hell. Jesus wept.ÂÂ
John of A Hole In The Head scanned and posted pages from some of the most depressing magazines I have ever seen:
Some time ago at a yard sale I came across a pile of magazines called “Woman’s Household”. At first glance they just looked like your run of the mill woman’s recipe and crafts magazine, but with each one I picked up I was stunned; I had never seen such despair wrapped up in so much yarn. The woman running the sale, gave them all to me for a dollar, saying “Take them all, they are just going in the garbage.” I knew I’d do something with them someday, I guess this blog is it.
“Woman’s Household” was a monthly crafts publication which sold for 25 cents an issue. Their slogan was “Meet Other Friendly Woman Just Like You”. The key phrase being ‘just like you’; middle aged women isolated in small towns across America. Every month readers were encouraged to participate in the writing of the articles, such as My Pet Peeve, or Words I Live By, My Diet or just to write a poem about Christ or their cat. Subscribers were able to read fascinating articles about fellow crafters such as in the column “Her Creative Busy Hands” … ÂÂ
Read the whole thing (and abandon all hope, ye who enter) here.
You know what’s odd? The “Queen of the Weight Watchers Club” that is featured in the magazine sitting there with a crown still lives up in Baudette, Minnesota.
And how is it that you know this?
The Observer knows everything.
Ah.
I have a sweet little booklet somewhere in the archives from Zondervan Press, a religious publisher. It presented planning tips for successful bridal showers.
30 years later, I can’t recall the object of the “word game” it suggested as part of the festivities, but I do remember the example it gave. Women were supposed to throw out synonyms for a supplied word, in this case “cry.” Sob, wail, boo-hoo…
The whole book was full of oppressive litle activities.