{"id":341,"date":"2009-07-25T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-07-25T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:59:10","slug":"in-which-i-explore-the-phenomenon-of-women-in-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/25\/in-which-i-explore-the-phenomenon-of-women-in-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Explore the Phenomenon of Women in Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Retro<\/a>\n

Retropolis offers a wide variety of accommodations to the tourist or traveler: from five star suites in the floating Galacticon hotel, through the more utilitarian, blastproof rooms made available to the conventioneers of The Society of Demented Research Technicians – and finally, to these modern and streamlined sleeping tubes at hotels like downtown’s "Tubular Belle’s".<\/p>\n

Sleek and affordable, these tubes bathe the guest in a sonic shower that cleans both sleeper and clothing. Visitors awake refreshed and ready for a new tomorrow – helped along by the hot, strong coffee that tops off the hotel’s complimentary breakfast.<\/p>\n\"Retro-Futuristic<\/a>\n

This all happened because of a series of blog posts at the Posthuman Blues blog …there<\/em><\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n

Though I’d never spent a lot of time thinking about Women In Tubes – and really, I haven’t<\/em>, at least not since the seventies – once I did think about them, I realized that they’re all over the covers of pulp science fiction magazines from the Golden Age of, well, pulp science fiction magazines.<\/p>\n

And I started to feel like less of a man because I’d never put women in tubes into my own pictures. I mean, obviously, it’s fundamental, right?<\/p>\n

But it’s not enough to just stick a women in a tube. Not even if it were<\/em> the seventies. What the heck are they doing in there? How did they get into a freaking tube, in the first place? It can’t be like that ship in a bottle thing: that would be disgusting. How do they get out<\/em>? And, as always, who stands to benefit<\/em> from keeping all these women in tubes?<\/p>\n

So I’ve tried to answer these questions, and while in the act, I made the tubes coeducational. Because that’s how I roll.<\/p>\n

The title’s from a song of 1933, by Olive Levine & Beany Miller. Because that’s also<\/em> how I roll. <\/p>\n

Available on posters<\/a>, archival prints<\/a>, and postcards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retropolis offers a wide variety of accommodations to the tourist or traveler: from five star suites in the floating Galacticon hotel, through the more utilitarian, blastproof rooms made available to the conventioneers of The Society of Demented Research Technicians – and finally, to these modern and streamlined sleeping tubes at hotels like downtown’s "Tubular Belle’s". […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}