the divine New Yorker forays into the American Museum of Natural History to check out their latest take on Darwin. Ben McGrath takes a tour and reports in the Dept. of Adaptation on "Darwin-O-Rama":
Had Darwin correctly anticipated the commodification of natural selection? A man in line to pay glanced over at an employee who was fooling around with the Darwin finger-puppet magnets. The man spoke with a European accent: “I’m sure this is what he always wanted: to be stuck on our refrigerators.”
after reading this i just had to hunt down the Darwin dolls. i had a hunch that they would be absolutely repellant and funny and offensive all at the same time. was i right? your call. above left is the Darwin finger puppet magnet, yours for 5 bucks. and to his right is Gandalf the Grey, er i mean the Darwin beanie doll. what IS with that hair? it's halfway down his back and screams unkept crazy. on the far right is the real deal, just to restore some respect to the man.
The one in the middle may be an attempt to make a toy that's unicreed: It can double as a Biblical prophet.
Posted by: MT | November 15, 2005 at 08:21 AM
ha haha ahahahahah. your wit is too incisive for you to be described as murky.
Posted by: anne | November 16, 2005 at 03:30 AM