Comedian Oswalt (The King of Queens, Caprica) offers up a collection of colorful essays ranging in
topic from his experiences working at a movie theater to sends-ups of eccentric relatives, including
a grandmother who gives exceedingly odd birthday gifts. To delve into the book is to take a tour of
Oswalt.s delightfully offbeat mind: he shares with readers what he was doing to procrastinate while
writing certain chapters, suggests some truly morbid greeting cards, and parodies the vampire craze
in comic-book form. The title is a reference to Oswalt.s theory that creative teens gravitate toward
three subjects for their early stories: zombies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt found himself drawn
toward wastelands, a natural choice for a comedian who likes to poke fun at society.
Oswalt is a wonderfully descriptive writer, vividly evoking his zombielike coworker at the theater,
a grim Canadian comedy club, and the wanderings of his teen imagination with sharp, sardonic prose.

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