Book of Big Butts
by Gary Phillips
"I like big butts and I cannot lie/You other brothers can’t deny/That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist/And a round thing in your face/You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough/’Cause you notice that butt was stuffed..."
-- "Baby Got Back," Sir-Mix-A-Lot
I have better sense than to ask for the new coffee table publication from Taschen, The Big Butt Book, for Father’s Day. I’m not going to get knocked out, no siree. But a trip to the Taschen website about this lavish book is pretty darn enticing I must say. Just so you don’t think this is purely a prurient interest, what with 400 photographs dating from 1900 to the present, I will of course be eager to read essays in the book on booty worship by the likes of the creepily obsessive underground artist Robert Crumb and somebody called the "Watermelon Woman."
Sadly, this tome probably will never grace my bookshelf, but I might be spending an inordinate amount of time at Book Soup (where along low tables along their windows looking out on the Sunset Strip they display their Taschen line) or the Taschen store itself humming "Baby Got Back" as I lovingly leaf through the mighty, mighty Big Butt Book.
For as Taschen relates in their ad copy: "The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery. The female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion."
Oh my. And while I have your undivided attention, don’t forget Bicycle Cop Dave rolls again here on FourStory tomorrow, June 2.
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