I Drink for a Reason
by David Cross
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Author: David CrossEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-31
ISBN: 0446579483
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: 4 Stars
Cross opens with some thoughts on a "Don't Abandon Your Baby" sticker on the back of an LAPD car, like "What kind of person needs to be told or reminding that they shouldn't abandon their child? After mulling the topic over, he comes up with a suggested longer and presumably effective wording - unfortunately, not g-rated.
Then a few observations on "fat nation." Stores all over are like fat museums, with half the people crawling along in "those scooters" originally intended for those who couldn't move their legs. Now people who are simply fat are using them, because they're lazy, because they're fat, because they're lazy, .... Cross goes on to provide guidelines for the health-food industry to better exploit the gullible. 1)Anything with "Dr." in the title is acceptable - even a veterinarian with a degree printed off the Internet. 2)Make more "healthy" snacks featuring people of the clergy as mascots. Example: Reverend Josiah Tuma's Deuteronomy 4:12 Oat Pops would be a big seller. 3)Using ghosts of past heroes would also be good - Doc Severinsen's Beauty Flakes.
Cross then takes on reality shows, Fox News (especially Bill O'Reilly), etc., etc., reports on a truck-stop encounter that I hope I never have, and closes with a letter from the future (2118) in which he temporarily returns to 1999 to invest in a Chinese company making American flags.
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