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Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In

OK, you crazy kids, you caught me out again. This is not a movie, this is a book. But it's not so much a work of criticism, as a redneck soap-opera with a few breast-counts thrown in. If Flann O'Brien had seen Basket Case at an impressionable age, this may well have been the kind of column he would have ended up writing for the Irish Times. If Roger Corman is the Shakespeare of the Drive-In, then Joe Bob Briggs is his Johnson. I have just re-read that sentence and if you have a juvenile disposition you may think I am likening Joe Bob to Roger Corman's (ahem) unit. Strike that unworthy thought from your mind immediately.

I am bringing this fantastic book to your attention because you can currently get a whole shed-load of them on British Amazon for about two pounds sterling (plus postage) each. Americans might have to pay a bit more. I submit to you most humbly that there is no better way of disposing of two pounds. No. Not even if you chanced across the cricket DVDs in the bargain bin. You will have to move fast, however. At that price I am going to buy up a whole load of these boys and distribute them in hotel rooms, like the Gideon Bible.

This book is good. Check it out.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 2:01 PM