Thursday, July 26, 2007

Yeast Excrement - Breakfast of Champions, Baby!

I just finished Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by the missed Kurt Vonnegut. I replayed the audiobook about 4 times when it got to the part about the Tralfamadore alien. (Below is an excerpt from this scene, which I got from this site so if it sucks and is wrong blame them.)

"A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to
explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer can be
cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where
the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing.

Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner
touched down than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into the
house, farting and tap dancing, warning the people about the
terrible danger they were in. The head of the house brained
Zog with a golf club (Vit 3)."

That was hilarious. Just imagine. Anyway, another super part of this book is when he talks about the yeast excrement. What a perfect description he paints for alcohol. So these microorganisms eat the sugar and crap out alcohol, which then this creates an environment that eventually kills the yeast. Brilliant. They crap their own fabulous poison.

So the other piece of this book I love is how character Science Fiction author Kilgore Trout has all of his novels published by a dirty adult publisher, as many sci fi writers go to great lengths to get their works published. Well he's often upset how the pictures they include in the book have nothing to do with the story content. For example, there's a picture in one of his novels of a professor being stripped of his professor clothing by these college girls with a library in view of the professor's office window (or something that indicates this is a campus) and Kilgore is irritated because nowhere in the book is a college campus or anything related mentioned. Funny.

Side note: Currently watching Anthony Bourdain's show No Reservations and he just said, "Breakfast of champions" as he ate balls. Yes, sheep balls. What a magical ending to this blog post.

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