The blog of Michael K.
I don't know what's creepier - the fact that so many kids-gone-homicidally-haywire can be easily looked up on Myspace, or the fact that months after their shooting sprees have passed, their sites are still being left up. (Ok, the last one is a mirror, but the rest aren't.)
Actually, I can think of a couple things even higher up the creep scale; the downright scary number of ominous signs on "Jake Jekyll"'s space to what happened this past weekend (and I'm about as liberal and blase about teenage "self-expression" as you can get). There's also an inordinate number of "shout out to my boy, people shouldn't judge, the media has already made you into a monster" comments up there. Granted, it's a moment of mourning and confusion and difficulty for anyone who knew the kid, but between what went down and things like that photo up there...I'm having a hard time figuring out how society/The Media is the culprit here. (Not that those comments are any worse than the hundreds of "you in jail, asshole!" comments filling the other spaces.)
About me
- Michael K.
- Observing the things in my personal cosmos: music of a catchy sort, soccer, hockey and other sports, theories of place, media and culture, academic life, history, nature, politics, the international, the parochial. You never know what you might get. For generosity of the spirit.
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Previous posts
- It's 11:30 on a Saturday night. I am sitting here...
- For Kiki...
- "Let me open that bottle for you, Nick."
- Dreaming of a White Thanksgiving...
- Legend has it, the song was originally written for...
- Links (because I'm lazy)
- Pelle is the new Jens
- A little behind with my sports babble
- Fuck you and the Hummer you rode in on.
- BS--->NYT
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