Jason McCullough
07-12-2011, 04:18 PM
This (http://www.slate.com/id/2298951/) is hilarious.
"Obama had this habit of doing very grandiose, epic language, for day-to-day struggles or minor things that happened in his childhood," says Warren. "And I realized: This is the language of an epic story, even though it's not an epic story. There really is enough of that language to tell another story altogether."
Over the next four years, Warren did just that. Obama's soothing, clipped baritone became the basis for a 32-minute audio fable titled Son of Strelka, Son of God. (Strelka was one of the Soviet dogs sent into space.) It is possibly the strangest-ever use of the Obama brand. (I say this allowing for the Obama Chia Pet, the "Head of State" sex toy, and anything will.i.am has attacked with an auto-tune program and a Fergie solo vocal.) Warren, a 39-year old scientist who "works at the interface of evolution and ecology," has out-weirded them all.
"Obama had this habit of doing very grandiose, epic language, for day-to-day struggles or minor things that happened in his childhood," says Warren. "And I realized: This is the language of an epic story, even though it's not an epic story. There really is enough of that language to tell another story altogether."
Over the next four years, Warren did just that. Obama's soothing, clipped baritone became the basis for a 32-minute audio fable titled Son of Strelka, Son of God. (Strelka was one of the Soviet dogs sent into space.) It is possibly the strangest-ever use of the Obama brand. (I say this allowing for the Obama Chia Pet, the "Head of State" sex toy, and anything will.i.am has attacked with an auto-tune program and a Fergie solo vocal.) Warren, a 39-year old scientist who "works at the interface of evolution and ecology," has out-weirded them all.