{"id":10317,"date":"2011-02-01T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2011-01-26T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:58:16","slug":"zombie-spaceship-wasteland-by-patton-oswalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/zombie-spaceship-wasteland-by-patton-oswalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2307560\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781439149089\/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=555639819&amp;client=prairiearealib\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>You might remember him as the sidekick from King of Queens or the voice of Ratatoille. If you&#8217;re really on top of it, you recall last year when our fair city was the epicenter of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/index.cfm?page=spew&amp;id=143\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>national stand-up comedy debacle<\/strong><\/a> when a community theatre hack mindlessly regurgitated his bits verbatim for profit under the presumption no one would notice.\u00a0 Or, from a commentary in the last issue of Wired Magazine pronouncing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/ff_angrynerd_geekculture\/all\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>geek fringe as the status quo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patton Oswalt is a genius, master comedic manipulator of the spoken word, dilletante, and highly sought-after nerd-culture commentator.<\/p>\n<p>His NYTimes bestselling latest effort,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2307560\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zombie Spaceship Wasteland<\/strong><\/a>, features childhood reminisces of Dungeons and Dragons and youth mired in suburban DC no-mans land, custom-crafted in his own inimitable style.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a rare feat how he wields his half-orc comedic pen with 20+ melee damage so effortlessly and without the pretension of his contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>You may also consider checking out any of his <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2157706\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>spoken word albums<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember him as the sidekick from King of Queens or the voice of Ratatoille. 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