{"id":13316,"date":"2010-04-27T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13316"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:49","slug":"forsman-chuck-snake-oil-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13316","title":{"rendered":"Forsman, Chuck &#8211; Snake Oil #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckmcbuck.com\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/snakeoil11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snake Oil #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the random submissions, they do keep me going. This one has just the right mix of a definite story starting somewhere in the confusion and thoroughly random plot points that&#8217;ll probably all come together in the end, assuming Chuck doesn&#8217;t give up on things completely. Things start off with Tim and Bob together in a restaurant. Tim is down about a breakup so Bob is trying to cheer him up, but Tim vanishes after a strange man and two men with the head of buffalo take him away in a black body bag. Meanwhile Darryl, Bob&#8217;s son, finds a pipe and his friend Kim smokes it, putting her in a damned near catatonic state. Oh, and Tim wakes up in a field and finds a small naked boy in a tree, trying to reach his father who is flying overhead in a plane. Where is all this going? What the hell is going on? No idea, but that&#8217;s the joy of first issues, especially the ones where there seems to be a master plan at work. There&#8217;s also an excellent unrelated story at the end of the book, dealing with a drunk man who may or may not secretly be a giant bird. Probably not, though. It&#8217;s $5, fairly hefty, gorgeous and more than mildly thought-provoking, so what more do you want?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/snakeoil12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Snake Oil #1 Ah, the random submissions, they do keep me going. This one has just the right mix of a definite story starting somewhere in the confusion and thoroughly random plot points that&#8217;ll probably all come together in the end, assuming Chuck doesn&#8217;t give up on things completely. Things start off with Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3654,1096],"class_list":["post-13316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chuck-forsman","tag-snake-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}