I must not think bad thoughts: drive-by essays on American dread, American dreams

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ContentsForeword: I Must Not Read Bad ThoughtsBruce SterlingIntroductionPart I. American Magic, American DreadDead Man Walking: What Do Zombies Mean? Gun Play: An American Tragedy in Three Acts Mysterious Stranger: Grandpa Twain's Dark Side Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back: On Lady Gaga Jocko Homo: How Gay Is the Super Bowl? Wimps, Wussies, and W.: Masculinity, American Style Stardust Memories: How David Bowie Killed the '60s and Ushered in the '70s and, for One Brief Shining Moment, Made the Mullet Hip When Animals Attack! An Aesop's Fable about Anthropomorphism Toe Fou: How I Was Subliminally Seduced by Madonna's Big Toe Shoah Business The Triumph of the Shill: Fascist Branding Endtime for Hitler: On the Downfall Parodies and the Inglorious Return of Der Fuhrer Part II. Myths of the Near Future: Making Sense of the Digital Age World Wide Wonder Closet: On Blogging (Face)Book of the Dead Straight, Gay, or Binary? HAL Comes out of the Cybernetic Closet Word Salad Surgery: Spam, Deconstructed Slashing the Borg: Resistance Is Fertile Things to Come: Xtreme Kink and the Future of Porn Part III. Tripe Soup for the Soul: Religion and All Its Works and WaysTripe Soup for the Soul: The Daily Affirmation Pontification: On the Death of the Pope The Prophet Margin: Jack Chick's Comic-Book Apocalypse 2012: Carnival of Bunkum The Vast Santanic Conspiracy Part IV. Anatomy Lesson: The Grotesque, the Gothic, and Other Dark MattersOpen Wide: Dental Horror Gray Matter: The Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Severed Head Been There, Pierced That: Apocalypse Culture and the Escalation of Subcultural Hostilities Death to All Humans! The Church of Euthanasia's Modest Proposal Great Caesar's Ghost: On the Crypt of the Capuchins Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: On La Specola's Anatomical Venuses Goodbye, Cruel Words: On the Suicide Note as a Literary Genre Cortex Envy: Bringing Up Baby Einstein AcknowledgmentsNotesPublication History