In the New York Times Book Review, Judith Newman reviews Ian Frazier’s laugh-out-loud funny book, The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days — the year-long diary of the fictional character he made famous in his New Yorker pieces. Frazier’s character writes a local advice column, conveying helpful household hints that somehow always produce catastrophes for her instead, which she then generally blames on … the Bush administration.
Demonstrating the proper use of a hammock, she becomes entangled as it spins in one direction and then another, finally depositing her in a clump on the ground — which she blames on the eff’n goddamn hammock lobbyists who “pushed this goddamn hazardous hammock through Congress with the help of the Bush administration.” Explaining the use of a new travel suitcase with multiple compartments and zippers, she gets caught in the zippers, ultimately destroys the bag — and blames it on the eff’n Bush administration, “when suitcases in this country started going to shit!” Early in the year, the Cursing Mommy’s book club is reading Why the Bush Administration REALLY Sucks, and she records in her diary that:
