Thursday, December 28, 2006

Ragmop GN

Currently reading the Ragmop GN by Rob Walton. Interesting dish, covering about every era that has ever existed on the planet.

This is the kind of book that could only be written in current day America, though how long what little freedom Americans still possess remains is very speculative at this point. I'm pretty sure the majority of U.S. citizens are unaware that Habeus Corpus is no longer existant.

If Walton had written this book four or more decades ago, he would have been arrested, deemed a communist, and secretly executed on pay television in front of a British audience. He goes that far, and I commend him. He doesn't leave any of his political, religious, or idealistic views to be guessed - he bares them out for all to comprehend be it through talking dinosaurs, couch potato angels, and trucker gods.

It's a Chuck Jones cartoon punched and beaten into Orwellian picture pages. I fear for my life by just reading this sort of book. Plus, Walton has created the first heroine in nearly ten years that I've developed a crush on - - Thrill Kitten. She takes no shit, and can dish out a mean mule kick to a man's junk. Plus, his rendition of the pope has a mean pimp-slapping backhand.

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