Chicano Frankenstein

by Daniel A. Olivas

TOMA: And FiveThirtyEight… Nate Silver… has us up two points on average. POTUS: Fuck Nate Silver.

TOMA: Anyway, as Professor Eileen M. Hunt explains in her seminal book, Artificial Life After Frankenstein, the doctor and his creation were quickly conflated under the sole moniker of “Frankenstein” in the many stage adaptations that immediately followed the novel’s publication in England and France, and that conflation has continued through today. POTUS: What the fuck? TOMA: It’s a common mistake, you know, erroneously using the term “Frankenstein” to refer to the creature rather than his creator. So to be correct, you really meant Frankenstein’s creatures running amok destroying America—since you were using the plural—but not Frankensteins running amok. POTUS: What the fuck do I care? I mean, really. I don’t give a flying fuck. It’s a motherfucking monster named Frankenstein, okay? That’s what normal people think. TOMA: But…

POTUS: What was your goddamn major in college? English? TOMA: Well, actually, yes. POTUS: And look how far that got you.

ESKANDARI: Well, technically, the AG doesn’t work for the president … POTUS: Spare me …

Topical much?!