Hi Patricia,
Today I forgot, and I didn’t fight it. Forgetting without a connection. I believe this is the second of the great modern emotions.
I watched one of those internet videos. It seems to be all I do. And it was Louis CK talking about being sad. But there was a twist to it, he became emotional without picking up his phone. The first very modern emotion. Sadness without disconnection.
Hi Ray,
I want to write about Fred Phelps, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to express my thoughts on him and his passing. Like most things, it's complicated.
I spent years reviling the man and the acts of the Westboro Baptist Church. I thought his message of hate was wrong-headed and un-Christian, whatever that means, and that his tactics were offensive and classless. I seethed with anger when he and his kin would picket the funerals of homosexuals, servicemen, and anyone else that would get them news coverage. When his attorney daughters stood on the steps of the Supreme Court after their victory over the father of a Marine whose funeral WBC picketed and smugly busted out some Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train," I actually felt nauseous. It was then that I realized that members of this family have some serious mental health issues.
