shellycheval
The Living Force
While many of us have been waiting for Dave to finish the ever so dark and dream destroying Laurel Canyon series, he has taken a time out to publish a new series on faking the moon landings. The following is an email I just sent to Dave and will serve as my recommendation of his latest writing:
Thank you Dave for your new series "Wagging the Moondoggie." It is definitely worth the interruption in the Laurel Canyon music scene expose (smashing another long held cherished relic of mine from the sixties about which you made me laugh while the shards were falling) and, in my opinion, stands as your funniest writing yet. Not to take anything away from the seriousness of the topic, the U.S. government faking the moon landings for forty years, (OK—just saying it is funny!) but writing humor, IMHO, is the most difficult writing to do well. To have me belly-laughing and looking for a seat belt for my office chair to keep me from rolling on the floor time and again, is a comic gift the likes of which I have not had since Dave Berry moved me to tears with his description of how, by using pop-tarts as fuel, one could turn a toaster into a flame thrower. OK, Jon Stewart’s recent FOX news juxtaposition was also hilarious, but then they’re FOX news therefore ridiculous all by them selves. You, on the other hand, took a topic so revered in American iconography that Howard Zinn wouldn’t even discuss it, and turned it into such memorable imagery as “It would appear that what was deployed by the mother ship to shuttle our guys down to the Moon was essentially an oversized Jiffy-Pop container (with the brainpower of a digital watch).”
Who in their right mind can refute this! Not me any longer. I have seen the LEM at the Smithsonian and I could not believe my eyes (literally!) that this schoolboy mock-up out of back-yard junk landed on the moon. Then, to remain comfortably in denial I thought it must be real; surely if “they” were trying to fake the moon landings they would have come up with something a little more believable looking than this collage of tinfoil and kitchen gadgets. You know—I was using reverse psychology on myself to hang onto the last one remaining event in American history that had not succumbed to the “zero to the bone” chill of conspiracy theory for me. It took you, Dave McGowan, to take my one remaining icon of U.S. ideology, one that many people continue to revere, and focus the lens of reason on it so succinctly, simply, directly and clearly that it too now resides in the dustbin of my naive national beliefs that started to fill up as the towers came down. Well done Dave.
shellycheval
Address to Dave's website http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
Thank you Dave for your new series "Wagging the Moondoggie." It is definitely worth the interruption in the Laurel Canyon music scene expose (smashing another long held cherished relic of mine from the sixties about which you made me laugh while the shards were falling) and, in my opinion, stands as your funniest writing yet. Not to take anything away from the seriousness of the topic, the U.S. government faking the moon landings for forty years, (OK—just saying it is funny!) but writing humor, IMHO, is the most difficult writing to do well. To have me belly-laughing and looking for a seat belt for my office chair to keep me from rolling on the floor time and again, is a comic gift the likes of which I have not had since Dave Berry moved me to tears with his description of how, by using pop-tarts as fuel, one could turn a toaster into a flame thrower. OK, Jon Stewart’s recent FOX news juxtaposition was also hilarious, but then they’re FOX news therefore ridiculous all by them selves. You, on the other hand, took a topic so revered in American iconography that Howard Zinn wouldn’t even discuss it, and turned it into such memorable imagery as “It would appear that what was deployed by the mother ship to shuttle our guys down to the Moon was essentially an oversized Jiffy-Pop container (with the brainpower of a digital watch).”
Who in their right mind can refute this! Not me any longer. I have seen the LEM at the Smithsonian and I could not believe my eyes (literally!) that this schoolboy mock-up out of back-yard junk landed on the moon. Then, to remain comfortably in denial I thought it must be real; surely if “they” were trying to fake the moon landings they would have come up with something a little more believable looking than this collage of tinfoil and kitchen gadgets. You know—I was using reverse psychology on myself to hang onto the last one remaining event in American history that had not succumbed to the “zero to the bone” chill of conspiracy theory for me. It took you, Dave McGowan, to take my one remaining icon of U.S. ideology, one that many people continue to revere, and focus the lens of reason on it so succinctly, simply, directly and clearly that it too now resides in the dustbin of my naive national beliefs that started to fill up as the towers came down. Well done Dave.
shellycheval
Address to Dave's website http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
, interesting 
, and very informative :). It is really absurd to think that man went to the moon as described by NASA.
