The 1980 Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (Screenshot 2)
The Flaccid Penis Mobile
George Orr and his lady friend dash off to another paragraph in the 1980 Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven. This must have been a futuristic vehicle back in 1980—which was really the late 1970s. I don’t know my automotive design history to place this car in context so I’ll just call it a piss-yellow, flaccid penis mobile.
This must be the money shot in accord with the whole tech-hippie liberal media aesthetic. It’s like an 8track tape player on wheels. And the bright yellow reminds me of how revolutionary and novel plastic consumer goods were in the 1970s as most plastic retail objects were bright red or bright yellow.
A bright yellow Hummer would not be the contemporary “conservative” Republican improvement over this spectacle—far from it! We can call those Hummers Neanderthal penis mobiles running on dinosaur Viagra.
