Let's Play Indians

From one of my favorite blogs, Awful Library Books, comes Let's Play Indians. No, let's not.

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/?p=15211

Party Like a Pilgrim

Max Weber is surprisingly silent on "partying".

This was an advertisement that ran in the Milwaukee edition of The Onion the week before Thanksgiving. Obviously this ad hyper-sexualizes Native Americans, which, in my mind, is rather tasteless, but what puts this ad over the top is the phrase "pary like a pilgrim". Who wouldn't want to "party like a pilgrim"? When one thinks of fun and partying, forget Hef; John Robinson and William Bradford are the super party animals of history, what with the mandatory church services and all. But there is a pie eating contest.

The Genesis of a New Blog

Don't ask about their Sitting Bull Special.

It started so innocently enough.

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This afternoon, I was having lunch with my partner Gen and our daughter at a Milwaukee Baker's Square. If you are familiar with that restaurant chain, you know that the company's claim to fame is pie -- lots and lots of pie. And located on every table in said restaurant is a guide showcasing each type of pie available to a customer.

Normally I do not bother flipping through this device because I usually indulge in pecan pie (one of my many guilty pleasures), but Gen and my daughter flip through the selection of pies like an executive flipping through his or her Rolodex. After a few flips, Gen's eyes widened and she showed me the picture above.

Yes...Baker's Square is advertising their custard pie by alluding to Custer's Last Stand.

Perhaps this is unintentional and perhaps there is a step in the process of making custard where one must "stand" the desert on its head, but I suspect not. Yes, this is a pun of the highest order, but it is tasteless in so many ways. And, it should be noted, hilarious in the most ironic of ways.

And hence, this is my blog. A place for you, my humble readers, to send in pictures of public pictures, advertisements, signs, etc. that (presumably) unintentionally disregard, butcher, or ignore an historical, literary, or cultural reference.