Throwing Muses - Two Step

Kristen Hersh and Belly - Slow Dog

"See-through skin
The kind of skin you can see through."

Cern

Kristen Hersh and Tanya Donelly and Throwing Muses

Riley Gene Ellison - August 2009 to May 2012

The are only a few adjectives that are lent to this serial injustice, and they are inappropriate to be uttered in the presence of a little boy who has not quite completed his third year.  I could say malevolent, but that doesn't even come close.  Nor does horrific -- it, too, falls short.  I know that the events that occurred on May 26, 2012 seal it for me in terms of god, or the church, or sectarian philosophy.  Complete wastes of time and energy. Imagine if all that energy were put to task in addressing our socio-cultural issues.  Drugs were athe centerpiece of his horrible crime.  From a professional standpoint I am then part of the problem, not part of the solution.  I feel this truth crawling around in my belly and it is very uncomfortable, as it should be.  In reality, there are plenty of words that can be applied to Riley's murder.

From So Human An Animal, by Rene Dubos

"Environmental ugliness and the rape of nature can be forgiven when they result from poverty, but not when they occur in the midst of plenty and indeed are produced by wealth."

Dire Straits - Water of Love

Beatles - For No One

Frida Kahlo's Last Words

"I hope never to return."

Modest Mouse - Dashboard

Sylvia Plath on Utilitarianism



"I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her unknowable tongue . . . and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another.  It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles."  The Bell Jar