“Excuse me officer, I thought/you were a shape-shifting rat.”
If there were some messy Planet of the Apes-like apocalypse, and this were the only line of
Rod Smith’s to survive, the gorillas and chimps would still have a lot of Smith to love. They’d get a taste of his Johnny Rotten-meets-Bugs Bunny attitude to authority in all its wily disguises. They’d get the carefully careless attention to sound that marries “excuse” to “sir” and “rat” to “thought.” They’d have the surprising misdirection of
Published on May 27, 2009 05:51