June 2017 Wallpaper: A Visit to Remy’s House
Shaenon: This month’s wallpaper illustration is based on the children’s book A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, written by Nancy Willard and illustrated by the husband/wife team of Alice and Martin Provensen, who drew lots of beautiful children’s books in American folk art styles. (Martin is no longer with us, but Alice is still busy at 98.)
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You’ll also get this bonus summer wallpaper from the archives:
Channing: Okay, sorry, but that undead alligator is really adorable. I wish I’d have thought of him.
There’s an almost Pepperland feel to it… love to see a Shaenon Tip (so to speak and no pun intended) Of The Hat to “Yellow Submarine”… She has a hand character, but no glove; a tophatted character who can bonk shopping malls down. But that’s it; absolutely nothing else in the Shaenonverse maps to Yellow Submarine, nothing whatsoever…
Love, love, LOVE this! I was born and raised only a few hours’ drive from New Orleans, and it always makes me happy to see any Skin Horse stories set around there.
Gotta admit one thing, though, and it’s funny in retrospect: My first thought after seeing this was a puzzled “Wait, Remy’s *Lutheran*?” It’s the weathercock on his roof– I lived in Germany for three years, and over there Lutheran churches all put stylized roosters on their steeples instead of crosses (no clue why.)
The rooster was a symbol of the Apostle Peter, the first Pope. (“…before the cock crows, you will deny me three times” ). In the sixth century, Pope Gregory declares that the rooster was the proper symbol if Christianity.
I has a pretty good idea about the first part, but you can thank our friend Google for the bit about Pope Gregory.
That alligator has got them waiting on him hand and foot and hand.
Have you no shame sir?
Well, it’s usually much harder to come up with something raw and offensive and funny on these Sunday pages.