Hungover Owls by J. Patrick Brown
My rating: 4/5 cats
okay, so – yeah – another book with pictures of animals and humorous comments! i know, i know, i am part of the problem. but look at these owls!! and it is the perfect companion book to Owl Puke: Book and Owl Pellet, right? they should be sold together at owl retailers everywhere.
and as one of “those” books, it is definitely more ambitious than most. it isn’t just a collection of snarky one-liners. there is some of that, coupled with photographs of truly hung-over looking owls. but also, there are short stories written by the owls themselves about their drunken highs and their morning-after lows. some are better than others, obviously, but they are at least good for a chuckle. and there are pieces of advice throughout:
-Puke away, not down. There’s just more of you down.
-If your drink tastes like candy, you’re gonna meet strangers
-If the drink name rhymes, you’re not making it home tonight
-Any drunk is too drunk to ride them interwebz
etc. i mean – it is silly humor, but look at those owls!!
they are so hung over! nature’s keenest murderers, brought to their knees by their love of alcohol!and i don’t even think owls HAVE knees! and we have all been there – morning after regrets, the betrayal of the body, the confusion and piecing together of lost hours:
The parts of me that have bruises are the parts of me that I shouldn’t have been using. I am alarmed.
amen, owl.
come on, you know you want to laugh.
and of course there is a website, this is the nineties: http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/
