Elvis and Priscilla.
August 14, 2008
Regular readers will know that I’m something of an Elvis fan. Okay, I don’t avidly collect his records and memorabilia like some sideburned, sixty-year-old plumber from Barnsley (not that I have anything against sixty-year-old plumber’s from Barnsley, you understand!), and I’m probably not about to make a pilgrimage to Graceland any time soon — but I have been listening to his music for most of my life and it still does the job it’s supposed to.
So, with the 31st anniversary of his death only a couple of days away, I was a little puzzled to read on the BBC website that the dolls below are being sold in Memphis as part of a weeklong event marking the anniversary.
As a little as I like Priscilla (she’s a Scientologist, for heaven’s sake — need I say more?), the juxtaposition between their marriage and his death seems rather unfortunate… okay, I’ll fess up. I am chuckling just a little bit. The irony really appeals to me.
Do you think the marketing boys and girls at Elvis Presley Enterprises got there anniversaries mixed up? Or maybe they have a bored Englishman working for them who wanted to, you know, have a bit of a laugh? 
August 15, 2008 at 12:09
Oh no! I think someone had the wrong anniversary in mind. Kind of funny, though.
I didn’t know Priscilla was a Scientologist, although I did wonder if she had ever been abducted by aliens. ::snort::
August 15, 2008 at 16:22
Isn’t being abducted by aliens and being a Scientologist the same thing?
I think she joined them a long while ago, actually. Lisa Marie is also a member… if memory serves me well, they apparently “helped” her through all of that self-destructive shit she was involved with. In other words, they pounced while she was vulnerable, as they so often do.
Incidentally, on the subject of Scientology, you might find this World in Action documentary from 1967 interesting
August 15, 2008 at 19:50
Oh, I’ll bet it is interesting. I’ll check it out when I finish my boring work.
Back to the grindstone…