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azurelunatic) wrote1999-06-15 01:04 am
azurelunatic) wrote1999-06-15 01:04 am
Musings from Onlist: Trenchcoat Mafia
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norabombay wrote:
> Looking at the coverage, I was
> feeling a great
> sympathy for the other "weird kids" in school.
> Particularily with the fun
> and fascism that seems to be the watchword now.
> High School was bad
> enough.
> it's only a situation where some kids were more
> successfull at their
> attempts than most previous. Rather than a dramatic
> societal shift, it was
> merely a case of better planning.
The only reason I dared bring up the subject at all is because I am the mother/ sister/ chickfriend/ brother/ peer counselor of my local high school's misfit trenchcoat wearers. I am happy to say that the worst incident that any of us was ever involved in was the whipped-creaming of a teacher (one of the other teachers was heard to mutter that the lady was asking for it) and a kamikaze squirtgun raid on a year-end faculty meeting, the latter being a stunt almost worthy of Miles. IMHO, these "freaks" that I know are the cream of the crop: the intelligent, the talented, the accepting. If you're the one who's stomped on and not accepted anywhere, there are basically two choices: accept no one in return, or accept everyone as they are, and only hang around with the ones who can accept you too. The freaks I know are the latter; the disturbed children who shoot up schools tend to be the former.
Sad to say, I do know a young man who was performing sadistic psychological experiments on his last school, with reasonable success. I have been one of the freaks ("You're psycho, Joan, and don't think that's a good thing!" --Sorority Chick) and it's no fun. I take it out by writing -- how I keep my tongue sharpened. It's more than remotely plausible that the Columbine High tragedy was just an expression of that general bitterness by people with less of a sense of humor and a tendency to outward expressions of anger. I hate to see intelligence and talent bent to the purposes of the Dark Side. Unfortunately, we can't use crowbars to open people's minds, either talented or mundane.
> >plans to professionally write as a hobby
>
> Essentially my plan. I am busy working up the story
> of my houseguests into
> an actual fiction piece.
You listees may be among the first to read the epic work based roughly on my Disasterous Freshman Year Romance Attempt, if I ever get it finished. It really ought to be a horror story and cautionary tale, but it always comes out sounding like Laurel and Hardy.
J. Laurel, whose best friend at fourteen was not Hardy but Costello, who was in turn minus her Abbott.
norabombay wrote:> Looking at the coverage, I was
> feeling a great
> sympathy for the other "weird kids" in school.
> Particularily with the fun
> and fascism that seems to be the watchword now.
> High School was bad
> enough.
> it's only a situation where some kids were more
> successfull at their
> attempts than most previous. Rather than a dramatic
> societal shift, it was
> merely a case of better planning.
The only reason I dared bring up the subject at all is because I am the mother/ sister/ chickfriend/ brother/ peer counselor of my local high school's misfit trenchcoat wearers. I am happy to say that the worst incident that any of us was ever involved in was the whipped-creaming of a teacher (one of the other teachers was heard to mutter that the lady was asking for it) and a kamikaze squirtgun raid on a year-end faculty meeting, the latter being a stunt almost worthy of Miles. IMHO, these "freaks" that I know are the cream of the crop: the intelligent, the talented, the accepting. If you're the one who's stomped on and not accepted anywhere, there are basically two choices: accept no one in return, or accept everyone as they are, and only hang around with the ones who can accept you too. The freaks I know are the latter; the disturbed children who shoot up schools tend to be the former.
Sad to say, I do know a young man who was performing sadistic psychological experiments on his last school, with reasonable success. I have been one of the freaks ("You're psycho, Joan, and don't think that's a good thing!" --Sorority Chick) and it's no fun. I take it out by writing -- how I keep my tongue sharpened. It's more than remotely plausible that the Columbine High tragedy was just an expression of that general bitterness by people with less of a sense of humor and a tendency to outward expressions of anger. I hate to see intelligence and talent bent to the purposes of the Dark Side. Unfortunately, we can't use crowbars to open people's minds, either talented or mundane.
> >plans to professionally write as a hobby
>
> Essentially my plan. I am busy working up the story
> of my houseguests into
> an actual fiction piece.
You listees may be among the first to read the epic work based roughly on my Disasterous Freshman Year Romance Attempt, if I ever get it finished. It really ought to be a horror story and cautionary tale, but it always comes out sounding like Laurel and Hardy.
J. Laurel, whose best friend at fourteen was not Hardy but Costello, who was in turn minus her Abbott.