Whoa, upon closer examination, I realized that the dragon's tongue is turning into the dude's headphones. I'm not sure what the deep symbolism means exactly, but it's sure-as-shit left me speechless. Wow. Just wow.
Afterwards, I ended up in a bookstore where I found this amazing book of magazine ads from the 1980s. Check out this fucking AMAZING ad for a clothing store called Chess King. A dragon? Curly-haired muscle dude wearing headphones and holding a broken chain in one hand and an oiled, topless slut with a ceremonial dagger strapped to her leg in the other?
Here's a close up. I don't read Chinese, but the picture shows Stalin, pushing Mao, pushing a Chinese soldier into the fire - so I'm guessing it's saying something like "You don't want to be Stalin's pawn, do you?"
They also had an entire room dedicated to American and South Korean created propaganda that was used to try to convince the Chinese and North Korean troops to surrender.
After my kids had all finished flushing the poison out of their eyes, we played a Mad-Lib game where they each write about describing an alien they met. After they were finished, I had them each illustrate their aliens.
