Our favorite political commentator just lost his show. To add insult to injury, it's likely that he won't be back on TV for at least six months, or maybe even as long as two years. He should write a book. He, like me, is a fan of Thurber, so it should be satire. I favor outlandish genre satires, either science fiction or fantasy or weird combo flips of said genres. That's just the way I roll. If you wanted to place blame, I suppose Matt Groening would bear the biggest load. Hey, I'm a Futurama fan, wanna make something of it?
Keith Olbermann, SF writer extraordinaire!! Keith should take the idiots he's had to deal with day in and day out over the past few years, put them in a weird distant place, and see what happens.
Where should he start?
Here are a few ideas for Keith. If you have any, please contribute below.
What the Dog Saw: Confessions of Rush Limbaugh's Poodle. This is a play on Stephen King's Cujo, a cursed dog bent on the destruction of humanity bites an innocent young lad, possesses the kid's soul, and starts a rampage of misogynist ideas, paranoid fantasies, name calling, and infantile behavior across America's airwaves. I don't even have to explain the rest of this. It writes itself.
I am Not Sane! A satiric fantasy in which Glenn Beck, "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother," is the evil, loopy doctor in charge of a mental hospital, bent on world domination through witchcraft and idiocy.
Unfinished Wars of the Future. The great Bushian Empire at a perilous crossroads when the foolish son of the Emperor is mistakenly given the robot army's command codes.
Accidents of the Gods. Cheney as . . . oh well hell, he's a dangerously incompetent Darth Vader in drag. Fun had by all but those under the bombs he drops.
I am the King. A little bit of Twain in this one. Murdock is revived in the distant future by robot minions and mistaken for the first king of England. He starts and loses many wars, and eventually is shoved back into his hibernation capsule by his irate robot subjects. He awakes in a more distant future similar in many ways to the future Earth in Futurama. He is assigned the job of waste disposal technician ("Ya gotta do what ya gotta do").
Whatever you do, Keith, there's a high probability we'll buy it, listen to it, watch it, or read it. Get to making the future, my man.