"Goodnight Bush" parodies Bush administration
Is "Goodnight Bush: A Parody," the recently published parody of the best-selling children's classic "Goodnight Moon," supposed to be laugh-out-loud funny or heaving-sigh sad?
The authors - San Franciscan Erich Origen and Los Angeles resident Gan Golan - prefer the term "traumedy." As in, they're trying to wrap eight traumatic years of the nation's history in a few good laughs. It's full of lines like "And a quiet Dick Cheney whispering 'hush.' " The accompanying image: The vice president, wearing bunny slippers, with a shotgun across his lap.
Riffing off the familiar, somnolent rhythms and dreamy illustrations of Margaret Wise Brown's children's classic, "Goodnight Bush" stands to become a popular American political parody - it was No. 507 Tuesday on Amazon.com's overall chart, and No. 2 among parodies just a week after its release. The book is a visual critique of the Bush administration, from the culture wars to the Iraq War, with the only constant being George W. Bush, clad in a "Mission Accomplished"-era flight suit, curled up on his bed.
The clock on his nightstand is permanently set at 9:11. On the mantle is the scale of justice, which at the book's beginning is balanced between church and state. By the end, the scale leans entirely toward the church; the Capitol has a cross atop its dome. Burning in the fireplace is a ballot box marked "Ohio 2004."
Some of the details aren't subtle, but one has to scour every corner of Origen and Golan's parody, lest they be passed over for a comb, a mouse or a bowl full of mush. Indeed, while a mouse scurried around in the original, in "Goodnight Bush," a mouse-sized Osama bin Laden scampers about, still on the loose.
Erich Origen and Gan Golan's "traumedy" stands to become a popular American political parody.
posted by Tom Jackson @ Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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PRESIDENTIAL THEME PARK: THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIUM
Forget the Presidential Library!
First, why make a library to honor a guy who does not even read books? Second, libraries are an attempt to preserve facts and history - and we know that the Bush administration cannot be trusted with either. So, in order to further the effort to bring historical clarity to the last 8 years, and support the ongoing demand for accountability that must accompany it, we are offering the public an alternative to the official Presidential Library planned for Dallas, Texas.
We present to you the George W. Bush presidential Librarium!
Reading about Bush's remarkable achievements might not exactly be family fare, so we've done away with all those pesky little books, and have replaced them with themed attractions that bring administrations remarkable legacy to life. So, leave your foreclosed home behind, pack the family into your most fuel-inefficient vehicle, and come on down to the place "where wings take dream"!
History starts here. The only question: Are you with us or against us?
http://www.goodnightbush.com/librarium/
THIS BOOK IS TERRIBLE AND SHOULD NOT BE IN ANY BOOKSTORE OR LIBRARY OR ANYWHERE NEAR PUBLIC VIEWING!! WHOEVER MADE THIS IS A SICK ****!!!
Who the hell would put, goodnight towers as the words underneath a picture that has an airplane going through 2 towers of blocks!? Or saying bloodshed or showing a shotgun on a bed!!!!?
GET THIS OFF THE SHELVES!!!
Um, it is a parody, idiot.
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