my friend xanadu sent me this abou t her censored letter:
A.) SALON ARTICLE, My Beautiful, Drug Addicted Boy: www.salon.com/mwt/feature...autiful_boy/
B.) MY FIRST LETTER:
Oh, Pleeeze - Frickin' Blow Me
Another predictable feed to This Moldy Hell's Groundhog's Day on endless loop.
Not only have we all heard the same story a gazillion times - THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY.
Every simpy tale of substance abuse, from VH1's "Behind the Music", to "Intervention, The Series", to Jerry Stahl's self aggrandizing jack-offs, to Amy Winehouse to Baudelaire, to my ex-friend the prominent lawyer and union leader who jack-knifed into the pipe... ditto ditto ditto ditto and they're all made of narcissism and they all look just the same.
FORMULA:
1. Auspicious promise and talent... yet tortured somehow.
2. Innocently experiments with substance. "Everyone was doing it... It took away my a. shyness b. pain c. anger... It gave me a. confidence b. stamina c. coping skills
3. Drawn further and further to substance by forces he/she can't understand, then can't control.
4. Promising future dashed. Loses family and/or fame and/or money.
5. Near death 'wake-up call'
6. Article in Salon! Whoooo-hoo!
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
(Others echoed my POV, but here I was the first.)
C.) The next letter supports me:
If only us too Xanadu
Absolute agreement with Xero’s point of view. The story of Nic and his hard journey through drug addiction is so inspirational, it makes me wish I had been cool, edgy and artistic enough to take on a meth habit.
If only I could turn back time and say yes to more drugs. If only, then maybe I too could be intellectual enough to win a Hemingway (what’s that award look like? A plank of wood with a shotgun blast through it ?); or publish for Newsweek; or promote my book through the NY Times review, my face looking so edgy, artsy and Bukow-rific cool www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26...26meth.html . What a dream. The young Nic Sheff could have only dreamed, I'm sure. What a message!
Do drugs kid. You really are the misunderstood hip genius you think you are, and someday you’ll show them all; just like Buko, Burroughs, Miller, Carroll and Sheff. Go on! You’ll be fine, and someday famous too.
Oh, if only…
-- The ungifted
[Read The ungifted's other lette
D.) An "Editor's Choice" letter:
Sometimes, little can be done but to wait
This is not a popular opinion, but I believe that oftentimes a parent of a young drug addict can do nothing but wait for the child to grow up and out of the addiction.
I was in a similar situation as Nic when I was in my early twenties in college. I was a drug addict, though not as extreme as he was. For years I was hooked on prescription medications pushed by a greedy doctor.
What got me out of it wasn't a revelation, a program, or a mentor. It was time. I just had to mature into my mid twenties before I had the intellectual abilities to break the addiction.
This seems to be more common in men. It has been proven time and again that boys mature slower than women, and some boys mature very slow indeed. Should any of these slowly maturing boys get sucked into the vortex of meth addiction, not much can be done but wait.
-- Tom3531
[Read Tom3531's other letters]
Permalink Friday, February 29, 2008 07:52 PM
E.) My response:
Tom3531! Dude!- Oy Vey Iz Mir! * (a.k.a. There Is No Spoon)
"Should any of these slowly maturing boys get sucked into the vortex of meth addiction, not much can be done but wait."
Tom. Dude! THERE IS NO VORTEX THE BOYS GET "SUCKED INTO".
THERE IS NO VORTEX THAT ANYONE GETS SUCKED INTO.
They have poor character, are self indulgent, and keep repeating a narcissistic choice.
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
Permalink Friday, February 29, 2008 11:26 PM
E.) My first letter DISAPPEARED!!!!!!!
F.) My third letter:
PARDONNEZ MOI, L'ARTISTE EDITRIX, MAIS...
Why the effing h did you censor/delete my first letter?
There was nothing conventionally offensive in it, save, perhaps, a threatening new angle on an old standard... and you didn't like the view.
Enlighten moi, por favor. Or 'nous', actually - I think people would be interested in blatant censorship around here. Well, I hope.
Please have an answer, O "Liberal Permissive Media." Because if that's really what you think you are - this is depressing me. Really.
Salaaming,
XX
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
Permalink Sunday, March 2, 2008 01:47 AM
G.) The next letter, a response to that:
Xanadu's first letter
Xanadu....I agree; your first letter was fine. Perhaps Salon is only accepting letters of rousing endorsement from readers of its headline stories.
Salon...where did it go?
-- jbhart1
[Read jbhart1's other letters]
Permalink Sunday, March 2, 2008 02:53 AM
H.) Where DID IT GO????? And WHY?
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A.) SALON ARTICLE, My Beautiful, Drug Addicted Boy: www.salon.com/mwt/feature...autiful_boy/
B.) MY FIRST LETTER:
Oh, Pleeeze - Frickin' Blow Me
Another predictable feed to This Moldy Hell's Groundhog's Day on endless loop.
Not only have we all heard the same story a gazillion times - THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY.
Every simpy tale of substance abuse, from VH1's "Behind the Music", to "Intervention, The Series", to Jerry Stahl's self aggrandizing jack-offs, to Amy Winehouse to Baudelaire, to my ex-friend the prominent lawyer and union leader who jack-knifed into the pipe... ditto ditto ditto ditto and they're all made of narcissism and they all look just the same.
FORMULA:
1. Auspicious promise and talent... yet tortured somehow.
2. Innocently experiments with substance. "Everyone was doing it... It took away my a. shyness b. pain c. anger... It gave me a. confidence b. stamina c. coping skills
3. Drawn further and further to substance by forces he/she can't understand, then can't control.
4. Promising future dashed. Loses family and/or fame and/or money.
5. Near death 'wake-up call'
6. Article in Salon! Whoooo-hoo!
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
(Others echoed my POV, but here I was the first.)
C.) The next letter supports me:
If only us too Xanadu
Absolute agreement with Xero’s point of view. The story of Nic and his hard journey through drug addiction is so inspirational, it makes me wish I had been cool, edgy and artistic enough to take on a meth habit.
If only I could turn back time and say yes to more drugs. If only, then maybe I too could be intellectual enough to win a Hemingway (what’s that award look like? A plank of wood with a shotgun blast through it ?); or publish for Newsweek; or promote my book through the NY Times review, my face looking so edgy, artsy and Bukow-rific cool www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26...26meth.html . What a dream. The young Nic Sheff could have only dreamed, I'm sure. What a message!
Do drugs kid. You really are the misunderstood hip genius you think you are, and someday you’ll show them all; just like Buko, Burroughs, Miller, Carroll and Sheff. Go on! You’ll be fine, and someday famous too.
Oh, if only…
-- The ungifted
[Read The ungifted's other lette
D.) An "Editor's Choice" letter:
Sometimes, little can be done but to wait
This is not a popular opinion, but I believe that oftentimes a parent of a young drug addict can do nothing but wait for the child to grow up and out of the addiction.
I was in a similar situation as Nic when I was in my early twenties in college. I was a drug addict, though not as extreme as he was. For years I was hooked on prescription medications pushed by a greedy doctor.
What got me out of it wasn't a revelation, a program, or a mentor. It was time. I just had to mature into my mid twenties before I had the intellectual abilities to break the addiction.
This seems to be more common in men. It has been proven time and again that boys mature slower than women, and some boys mature very slow indeed. Should any of these slowly maturing boys get sucked into the vortex of meth addiction, not much can be done but wait.
-- Tom3531
[Read Tom3531's other letters]
Permalink Friday, February 29, 2008 07:52 PM
E.) My response:
Tom3531! Dude!- Oy Vey Iz Mir! * (a.k.a. There Is No Spoon)
"Should any of these slowly maturing boys get sucked into the vortex of meth addiction, not much can be done but wait."
Tom. Dude! THERE IS NO VORTEX THE BOYS GET "SUCKED INTO".
THERE IS NO VORTEX THAT ANYONE GETS SUCKED INTO.
They have poor character, are self indulgent, and keep repeating a narcissistic choice.
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
Permalink Friday, February 29, 2008 11:26 PM
E.) My first letter DISAPPEARED!!!!!!!
F.) My third letter:
PARDONNEZ MOI, L'ARTISTE EDITRIX, MAIS...
Why the effing h did you censor/delete my first letter?
There was nothing conventionally offensive in it, save, perhaps, a threatening new angle on an old standard... and you didn't like the view.
Enlighten moi, por favor. Or 'nous', actually - I think people would be interested in blatant censorship around here. Well, I hope.
Please have an answer, O "Liberal Permissive Media." Because if that's really what you think you are - this is depressing me. Really.
Salaaming,
XX
-- xanadu xero
[Read xanadu xero's other letters]
Permalink Sunday, March 2, 2008 01:47 AM
G.) The next letter, a response to that:
Xanadu's first letter
Xanadu....I agree; your first letter was fine. Perhaps Salon is only accepting letters of rousing endorsement from readers of its headline stories.
Salon...where did it go?
-- jbhart1
[Read jbhart1's other letters]
Permalink Sunday, March 2, 2008 02:53 AM
H.) Where DID IT GO????? And WHY?
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