Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1992

Clinton Gore '92

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Notice the union label is part of the display.

In 1992 I saw something I have never seen in a presidential election before or since. In McCleary, a town with a healthy chunk of 1938-1940 immigrants from Arkansas (I live in a part of town known as Arkie Hill), there were home-made signs for Clinton in front yards. In fact as I recall, in our town, George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican incumbent, placed third behind Clinton and Perot in 1992.

State of Beings #4: Arkansas

Arrived as a special contribution to Western Civilization with City Limits Gazette # H 1/4 (Dec. 1991).

My brother actually had a Caspar the Friendly Ghost doll that talked when you pulled the cord on it's neck. Then his white fluffiness gave way to threadbare groadiness, and his utterances began to sound like something out of the Exorcist as the little record inside his plastic head started to wear out.

I'm pretty sure I used this concept in a longer story-- just can't remember where.