Content Warning for rape and child abuse. You can read an edited version of this post that doesn’t deal as heavily with those topics here.
Chapter 31 opens with Noah and Arthur facing off in Arthur’s office. Noah tries to apologize for his subterfuge, but Arthur is suspiciously laid-back about the whole thing, saying that there's no way Noah could have seen through Molly's seductive wiles.
Read MoreIt's chapter 26 and yep, we're still hanging with Kearns and Danny.
By the way, I'm referring to Kearns by his surname because that's what the book does, but it flip-flops randomly with Danny. In some chapters he's Danny, in others he's Bailey.
Who's ready for some stuff that doesn't make sense?
Read MoreLast time on The Overton Window, Noah got drugged by his quasi-girlfriend and her revolutionary pals. But enough about that, lets check in with Agent Kearns and Danny Bailey, who are planning a sting operation against some all-American militiamen.
Read MoreIt's chapter 20 let's go.
Outside the skies were still threatening,
The skies were still threatening to what
and to accompany the frigid light rain a wicked crosstown breeze had begun to blow.
Were the skies threatening to rain? Because it's already raining.
(Yes, I'm being nit-picky. No, I DGAF).
Read MoreWe're back from our hiatus! Unfortunately, posting will still resume on a slower schedule, as I'm experiencing new and exciting Brain Symptoms. I'm planning on tidying up some choice pieces of content from my old site and bringing them over, so that will hopefully plug up the gaps.
In case you've forgotten what's going on in The Overton Window, here's a recap: Noah Gardner, rich young PR executive, has entered the orbit of Molly Ross, a member of the goofily-named Founders Keepers, a "patriot" group convinced that America is sliding towards tyranny. Noah actually knows for a fact that this is the case because he was in the room when his dad offered to help some government employees enact a plan that will end with a new world order taking over the country, but he doesn't seem to have processed this for some reason. When we last left them, they were sneaking into Noah's company to look for evidence of the plot at Molly's urging.
Meanwhile, Danny Bailey, another Trapper Keeper and Youtube sensation, has been recruited by an FBI agent named Stuart Kearns, ostensibly to participate in a sting operation looking to arrest militia members who might be plotting nefarious deeds. In reality, Kearns is working with the evil conspiracy and is duping both Danny and the militia chuds into carrying out a real terrorist attack in order to create a pretext for the new world order plot (this hasn't actually been revealed yet in the part of the book we've covered, but it's incredibly obvious).
All that aside, lets get back into it.
Read MoreProgramming note: updates will be less frequent for the forseeable future, due to Brain Problems
As chapter fifteen opens, Noah brings Molly to his fancy rich-guy apartment, humble-bragging about how he lives near the Met and all the big embassies because he's such a mister fancy pants. It feels like approximately a month in real time since anything interesting has happened.
Read MoreNoah wakes up from truncheon-induced unconsciousness to find himself in the back of a van with Molly and a bunch of other people.
Read MoreNoah is still at the freedom bar, half-listening to the speakers and getting hammered on cheap beer.
Read MoreThe Patriotic All-American Rainbow Coalition (Where Only White People Get Speaking Roles) continues its meeting.
Read MoreAfter his madcap taxi caper, Noah decides to walk the rest of the way to Molly's freedom hoedown.
Read MoreLast chapter, Noah sat by quietly while his dad went on a maniacal (and very long) rant about how he's going to help a cabal of government officials seize power and reshape the country to their liking.
You would expect his reaction to this to be something like "Holy shit my dad has lost his god damn mind, Jesus Christ what the fuck I've got to tell someone about this", followed by a bout of hyper-ventilating and hysterical crying. Instead, he just seems vaguely confused and ill at ease.
Read MoreNote: I'm changing the way I do excerpts from now on, because Squarespace's quote function is awful. Let me know if it's difficult to read or causes any problems.
Chapter 3 opens on a fake document from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, called "“Constitutionalists,” Extremism, the Militia Movement, and the Growing Threat of Domestic Terrorism." But it's totally actually about keeping good, red-blooded, freedom-loving American patriots from resisting Woodrow Wilson's evil plan.
Read More(Note: big thanks to twitter follower @waitworry for recommending this book when I put out a call for suggestions. I think it might be the juiciest Let's Read candidate since the Kvothe books)
PART ONE begins with a Woodrow Wilson quote, as noted earlier.
Read MoreYEAH THAT'S RIGHT
We're doing this again. And we're reading The Overton Window, written by Glenn Beck, acclaimed author of The Christmas Sweater and professional right-wing shouty-man.
Didn't I just declare last year that my old let's read format was kind of mean-spirited and Not Good Actually? Yes I did, but I offer the following counter-arguments (to myself):
I'm bored and I need an easy project to work on
It's Glenn Beck
Shut up, that's why