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The Ballad of Charles Whitman

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  • i read the psychiatrists were prescribing him Dexadrine which was proven to have the same properties of methamphetamine

  • @Chunkyownyou 27th floor fits the meter of the song better.

  • it was the 28th floor?

  • Kinky autographed my copy of Sold American. Real nice guy if you ever meet him.

  • ...for me to laugh.* Having to correct your grammar after saying something serious, now THAT's kinda funny, I'll give you that.

  • I love Kinky and I've always enjoyed hearing this song, but I think it would've been better in this context, if the visual footage were from a live concert of him singing it; I've always known the background here, but it's one thing to summon that background from the bog of one's cultural memory and historical distance, and another to see a woman, with a hole blown into her bloody chest, being loaded into an ambulance. The details adds a layer of immediacy that makes it impossible for me laugh.

  • aaahh yeaaaaaah from belgium!!!!

  • @donjohn8 True fact. He can't have done worse than the dick in office now.

  • I think it was that gifted comic artist of the macabre, Gahan Wilson, who, when in a discussion about the boundaries of taste, obscenity, etc, mentioned that he found something very disturbing or hard to accept (I don't recall exactly what he said).I think he wanted people to raise their consciousness of what was really worth being repulsed by, rather than ordinary MOR fear of grossness. He pointed out that Whitman had packed his deodorant in his bag, so he wouldn't offend.

  • A classic!

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