My car's air conditioner gave up the ghost many years ago. Which means that on warm and hot days, I drive around town with the windows down.
Normally, I am only as cranky about this as you might assume.
Today, however, I was worried that NPR might have caused people in other cars to think I was insane. As I was leaving work (where I get paid hourly, 2.5 hours after they had stopped paying me, but at least 3 hours away from having finished all the work that they miraculously expect me to magically do), I was listening to NPR, which told me that someone has written a parody of the children's classic
Goodnight, Moon.
The parody is called
Goodnight, Bush. I only heard a few lines; I missed the story itself. But you can take a peek at
the first few pages if you'd like.
What I heard made me laugh so hard that I positively cackled and banged my hand on the stick shift. It was that funny. NPR helpfully has a link to
their piece on it, in case you missed it and want to listen too.
Sadly, I didn't realize it was an actual published book ( see above comment about hearing the teaser but missing the story). If I had, I would have picked up a copy. I was on my way to the bookstore of pick up my opening day copy of Naomi Novik's
A Victory of Eagles.
Despite all my online time, I like the ritual of tromping off to a bookstore the first day of a book's release and picking my own copy off the shelf.
I went to my local B&N and checked the "new releases" shelves, and didn't see it there. Then I checked the "Sci Fi and Fantasy" section, and didn't see it there.
Then I went to the info desk and asked, and the very nice employee said "Well, it says we have 5 or 6 copies but that we just got them in yesterday. Maybe they haven't put them out yet."
So we tromped around, enlisted the help of someone else who worked there, and finally I had my very own shiny hardback copy. Yay for new Temeraire. I hope they shelf the other copies soon.