Opening chapters: the culture of violence in Vineland

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

>  . . .he chose Count Chocula, a cereal playing on the Dracula  
> story. . .

. . .further explicated in Mucho Maas' transformation into "Count  
Drugula", delivering the gospel according to Timothy Leary.  As a pure  
expression of a Tubal breakfast cereal, Zoyd's habit of buying sugar- 
frosted crapola is yet a further sign of TV O.D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TogxwaKYL0

Although this theme is played lightly—for satire's sake—there is an  
equivalence presented throughout Vineland of the Tube as an addiction  
worse than any chemical dependancy.