| Wednesday, April 25, 2001 |
 | At last, a schematic for the rules of Prostitute Top Trumps. 'Tute cards have been a feature of London for as long as I've been here - I remember being surprised but charmed to find exactly one in a phone box in Oxford once, with a local number but exactly the same styling. Like the lost milk carton in the video for "Coffee and TV" - sweet and sad and alone.
Particularly like the idea of the "joker" - a card whose pictorial representation is quite clearly not that of the meretrix in question. My personal favourites include Louise Brooks, Shamanic transvestite Lord Fanny and various scenes from John Willie fetish classic The Adventures of Gwendoline.
The problem with these things, as with the pornography they compulsively reference, is their banality. They appear to be a highly competitive market, but are in fact joylessly monocultural. With the sole exception of one, with whose writer I have fallen hopelessly in love. Which is, quite correctly, a tribute to Wederkind. Which brngs us circuitously back to Louise Brooks. Go figure.
(from Coffeeground, natch)
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