Dis title, is misleadin'. Da Webster gaves me it cos he saids it wos funny, but I dunno who Jack Kerouac is, but i'll take his word for it.

Today's post is however about two related fings. Da first of dese fings is an amazin' kids book dat B.L.Z reads ta me durin' da holidays. It wos called "Da Road" by Cormac McCarfy, da guy who wrote da book which wos made into dat movie "No Country for Old Men" dat I snuck into and saws last year. He also wrotes "Blood Meridian" a great cowboy book which is a real hit down here in Hell, we even got our own groups who pretend dey is da Judge when dey tortures dem monkeys dat comes here ta be tortured.

Anyway, "Da Road" is super! It's da adventures of a young lad an' his dyin' dad who is wanderin' down a bleak road in a post-apocalyptic America. It's set a long time (a phrase used constantly in da book) after da disaster an' an idea of civilisation has eroded as everywhere has been ransacked for food, all da animals is gone, all da plants is brittle ash sculptures and dem humans dat is left is eidder like our hero an his dad, very very lucky, or dey has reverted to bleak cannibals and "bloodcult" armies dat wander like wraiths, empty, aimless, survivin' only for da next meal. But dey is all really scarce wifin da book, mostly it's out two main characters strugglin' to survive by day an' haunted by nightmares or fantastic dreams by night. Dere journey, like all da udders on da road is wifout any real goal, or chance of redemption, an never changes pitch, it's just merciless. Da characters "Boy" and "Man" is normals but ye learns ta feel dere pain through some amazin' descriptions (even dough da book is written in a flat bland way. B.L.Z. saids he suspected it was stylistically done, cos even da writin' was meant to portray a world wifout even da slightest pretense at social graces) an' some scenes which is straights out of da pit.

Da Road. Cormac McCarfy. GO AND BUY IT NOW!!!!! It's important!!!!! 36 fumbs up outta 10. Yeps it's DAT good.

Stayin' on da post apocalyptic landscape topic. I has been playin' Fallout 3. Dis game, set around a nuked Washington D.C. is also GREAT!!!! It's not as grim as Da Road, but is still pretty grim, it's got a lot to do, a nice plotline an' some great characters an music, ye can freely wander aroun' an' play it da way you feel, so ye can be a mean gun totin' psycho, or a sneaky rogue like hero, or wotever. Ye can pick up missions or just go feral, it's a radioactive sandbox!!!!!. Cos a lot of da city is in rubble, sometimes ye has ta go inta sewers or old metro stations to get from one place to da next, dere you will meets some fugly denizens from radioactive coachroaches feral ghouls ta supermutant hordes. Dis is a great game, lotsa atmosphere, lotsa scares, some genuinely freaky moments, good black comedy, madmen everywhere an' if dat weren't enuff, some nice Gernsback style cyborgs as da cherry on da cake.

Fallout 3. A perfect companion to Da Road. GO OUT AND BUY IT if ye has an X-Box an' likes dis types of game. I does. 9 outta 10 fumbs up.