Quite the grim tale. His mother took a fatal dose of downers upon hearing of his death.
I’d have had a go at his wife. Why not?
Hubba hubba.
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 12:41pm
by WestwayKid
...for any Twin Peaks fans out there...Jack Parsons was featured in Mark Frost's The Secret History of Twin Peaks. It was the first time I'd ever really read anything about him.
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
What's Christmas without some goat-demon nightmare fuel?
From my friend just a sec ago:
Every 'krampus' picture I see, my anti-Semitism alarm goes nuts. Maybe I've finally inherited [my family's] racial paranoia, but I don't trust European folklore about bearded and horned people being anti Christian and stealing kids and shit.
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
What's Christmas without some goat-demon nightmare fuel?
From my friend just a sec ago:
Every 'krampus' picture I see, my anti-Semitism alarm goes nuts. Maybe I've finally inherited [my family's] racial paranoia, but I don't trust European folklore about bearded and horned people being anti Christian and stealing kids and shit.
Quite plausible. I can see pagan origins and then appropriation by Christians as reinforcement of anti-Semitism.
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
And that teenage girl would grow up to be... Jon Wolter.
Re: What are you looking up on Wikipedia right now?
Listening to Roger Kahn's The Era (which, btw, is marvellous in that baseball-as-romantic-mythology kind of way). He relates a story I'd never heard before, a teenage girl who became obsessed with a Chicago Cub player and stalked and shot him (inspiring The Natural).
And that teenage girl would grow up to be... Jon Wolter.
Goddammit, I was feeling sorry for her being mentally ill; now I wish she'd gotten the chair.
