November 7, 2008
NEW PRESIDENT NEWS!
THE ROAD TO OBAMA
What a week! I finally read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure, it’s a rollicking post apocalyptic father & son trek, which is now being made into what is sure to be a fun movie with exciting cannibals and Charlize Theron. The only slightly disappointing thing is that they’ve cast Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in the leads, and I was very much hoping Harrison Ford & Shia LaBeouf would team up again and reprise their winning father/son chemistry from Indiana Jones and The Incredibly Crap Alien Skull. Don’t these Hollywood twats know anything?
If you have read The Road however then you’ll know that upon finishing the book one is badly in need of something outrageously positive to refit all the bits of you that have been shaken loose so waking up on Tuesday morning to see Obama’s victory speech on the news was like a giant gift box of sweet smelling salve. He’s even more comfortingly charismatic than Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact! And he’s real!! Now do us all a favour Barack and stear clear of blowjobs and pathetic conflicts, unless they’re with your wife.
I couldn’t help fantasising about what earlier drafts of his speech might have been like though. Or what a less gracious man might have said…