UNDERWIRE
by Jennifer Hayden
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11 comments + 11 replies
Posted by: jennifer
09:04pm / Dec 27, 2008
09:04pm / Dec 27, 2008
Boy God very important. Takes over when mama passes out.
Posted by: Jim H.
04:27pm / Dec 27, 2008
04:27pm / Dec 27, 2008
I guess there is a connection between birth and monkeying around.
(Sorry!)
(Sorry!)
Posted by: jennifer
09:05pm / Dec 27, 2008
09:05pm / Dec 27, 2008
Ah, yes there is. When monkey drops birth control device...
Posted by: Peter Timony
05:32am / Dec 28, 2008
05:32am / Dec 28, 2008
If it weren't for the first page where you said Thera was made-up, I'd have believed every word.
Posted by: jennifer
04:13pm / Dec 28, 2008
04:13pm / Dec 28, 2008
Just because the Egyptians forgot to write this one down, doesn't mean it isn't true, eh?
Posted by: Dan Nies
09:08pm / Dec 28, 2008
09:08pm / Dec 28, 2008
OK, I know it is a made up story - but it should be based on a few facts. The monkey head, perpetual bun in the oven - none of that bothers me. But the sun god with jugs and a vagina! Sorry. Too much for me to buy. My friend Laura is a professor of Egyptology and I had her read a Sarcophagus or two to confirm what I thought. Egyptian sun god in all its forms was a dude! Atem-Re (the 2 halfs of the sun under most Pharaohs) both dudes (perhaps even gay). Atum the sun disk worshiped by Akhanaten - also a dude. I love ya Char, but you got to do your homework.
Posted by: Jim H.
01:05pm / Dec 29, 2008
01:05pm / Dec 29, 2008
Of course, just because the Egyptians thought the sun was a dude doesn't mean they're right. ;-)
I have to admit though, my 21st century sensibilities had a hard time imagining that a FEMALE sun god would make her daughter be always pregnant. The head of a monkey, maybe -- I was just reading about Naomi Klein's parents in the New Yorker-- but always pregnant??
I have to admit though, my 21st century sensibilities had a hard time imagining that a FEMALE sun god would make her daughter be always pregnant. The head of a monkey, maybe -- I was just reading about Naomi Klein's parents in the New Yorker-- but always pregnant??
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
05:17pm / Dec 30, 2008
05:17pm / Dec 30, 2008
Dan--congratulations, you are now an official nerd.
As we all know, sun doesn't mean "son", and this was "made up" for the assignment. But I agree with Jim H. that nothing could be worse than spending eternity nine months pregant, absolutely nothing, and one day, in the fullness of time, the author of this story will find that out.
As we all know, sun doesn't mean "son", and this was "made up" for the assignment. But I agree with Jim H. that nothing could be worse than spending eternity nine months pregant, absolutely nothing, and one day, in the fullness of time, the author of this story will find that out.
Posted by: Tim Hamilton
04:27pm / Jan 3, 2009
04:27pm / Jan 3, 2009
You make me sad that I didn't dream this.
My dreams are so lame compared to this.
So good.
My dreams are so lame compared to this.
So good.
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
05:31pm / Jan 3, 2009
05:31pm / Jan 3, 2009
Thank you--I didn't dream this either. My twelve-year-old dreamed this one up, and we can't all have the brilliance of youth...
Posted by: George of Connor
02:38pm / Jan 4, 2009
02:38pm / Jan 4, 2009
Very nice myth-making, there. I'd believe this was an actual deity.
Posted by: Michelle Haimoff
07:58pm / Jan 5, 2009
07:58pm / Jan 5, 2009
Great collaboration! I never knew Cheerio was so imaginative. And the illustrations are out of this world!
Posted by: Lando calrizzle
10:56am / Feb 28, 2009
10:56am / Feb 28, 2009
I really like how you flipped the traditional sexual roles in your Egyptian fantasy! Im glad you went the original and authentic route making this much more creative rather than regurgitating something recorded from cable! oh yea, and the golden baby is great...
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
06:35pm / Feb 28, 2009
06:35pm / Feb 28, 2009
The golden baby was my daughter's brilliance--I can't take credit.
Posted by: Elizabeth Davis
11:37pm / Mar 12, 2009
11:37pm / Mar 12, 2009
You both are so fucking brilliant. I have been laughing my head off at every frame, my cheeks hurt and I think I've woken everybody up in the house it's late at night thank you, thank you from a cold night in Maine made warm by the light of your humor. Can't wait to see you... E
Posted by: Jennifer Hayden
09:40am / Mar 13, 2009
09:40am / Mar 13, 2009
Woman, I was just thinking about you last night. Where have you been? You are the brilliant one. I need some E-brand yuks!
03:24pm / Dec 27, 2008
Nobody gonna make up a Boy God of 'standing around looking mystified'?