Salon.com Critics' Picks: "Goodnight Bush"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2008/05/31/may31/

May 31, 2008 | "Goodnight Bush: A Parody" by Erich Origen and Gan Golan

Seldom have an administration's failings been set to such a lulling cadence: "Goodnight Constitution/And goodnight evolution … Goodnight contractor beheading/Goodnight innocent bloodshedding ..." This unauthorized but highly welcome parody transforms the soporific imagery of Margaret Wise Brown's children's classic "Goodnight Moon" into the most spine-chilling bedtime story ever. The three little bears become war profiteers, the bowlful of mush is now "war in a rush," and the titular moon gives way to a refinery plume. Satirists Erich Origen and Gan Golan make all the expected textual points, but the book's real strength is its visuals, which harness Clement Hurd's original illustrations toward alarming ends: clear-cut forests, New Orleans floods, Lynndie England and, best of all, a wolfishly grinning Dick Cheney in an ermine-lined robe -- surely the scariest old lady ever to whisper "hush." -- Louis Bayard

[Hissyspit]

1. kick

[Hissyspit]

2. .

[uppityperson]

3. k&r

[Lorien]

4. Even though some of the words are "big", it's done in a format that

might be appealing to Dubya.