Shrunkenhead

If you are over, say, 38 I need not explain what the hell this is. If you are under, the conversation is something like this.

Young person: ” So let me get this straight. You would skin a perfectly good apple. Make a couple cuts in it to roughly mimic the features of a human face, eyes, ears, nose, and a mouth. And then let it set out until it was completely rotten. A shriveled brown husk of former apple.”

You: “Yeah, that’s about right.”

Young person: “And then, if I am not mistaken you would take this piece of refuse and decorate it with hair and other items to make it look like a tiny shrunken head.”

You: “Sounds like you got it.”

Young person: “What would you do with this once it was finished?”

You: “Oh I don’t know. Hang it from your rearview mirror. Use it for decoration. Maybe make a necklace.”

Young person: “Don’t tell me, you also made your own clothes from road kill and foraged in packs.”

You get the idea. I don’t remember what anyone actually did with these things once they finished with them. The ad says use as necklace so why the hell not. The perfect accessory to go with your bell bottoms and earth shoes. Matter of fact the only way this could get more 70′s is if the shrunkenhead was actually wearing earth shoes. Don’t know what earth shoes are? Go ask your parents.

This is a prime example of some company (in this case Milton Bradley) trying to cashing in on a short lived fad. And they didn’t skimp either. That illustration is by Mort Drucker and they got Vincent Price for gods sake.

Apple sculpture my ass.

Masto.