Fucked up family? little to do with anything in their case.
At 10:07 PM 12/15/2012, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>>Aaaaagh,
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>>Joanna
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>I was going to write something but it was too insanely tedious to wade
>through the ads and the one minute videos with flashing ads. Really what
>you are looking at is the total breakdown of US media. I decided to muse
>over it in my journal instead.
>
>Just superficial glances at the facts of Adam Lanzo's life said it all to
>me. Another well off busted family with older kids going nowhere. Dad
>remarried and is a VP at the local GE Financial Services division. Take it
>from there.
>
>Could have happened in the long ago where I spent my teenage years in
>Northridge. Lots of fucked up families and twisted kids. I tried for a
>long time to figure it out.
>
>Nobody is going to get it without a story.
>
>One night, I was sixteen and asleep and I hear this noise at the open
>widow. It's my friend call him Robert. He wants to come in, so I open the
>screen and he gets through. What is going on Robert? Long storied history
>between us, which is why he came to my place. His sister who I had onced
>dated came home early with her date and caught him doing something pretty
>outrageous ... funny actually. ... But this wasn't funny. It would make
>the rest of his days in high school hard to live.
>
>I heard about it on Monday in the lunch area. I rolled my eyes and walked
>away. His rotten sister had told everybody she knew. He did indeed become
>an outsider and never had a date as far as I know. He took up his studies,
>read Ann Ryn and tried to get me to read her. I tried, but what bullshit.
>I preferred science fiction or maybe Steinbeck, something funny and
>soulful like Tortilla Flat. He got other friends including some kid who
>lived in a really interesting Bauhaus designed place from the 1930 out
>near Box Canynon. This is an historically weirdo area that included
>Charles Manson at a later date...
>
>Robert got into UCB as a freshman in 1961 and totally rejected all the
>student left. By the time I got to Berkeley he had graduated and got into
>UCLA law school. The last I heard his first job was in the LA District
>Attorney's Office. I never saw or heard of him again. It's chilling to
>think what he became. In my fevered imagination, his saddistic features
>loom, given the power of a prosecutor's office. Keep Robert away from
>small furry animals. Actually, it might be the other way around. He might
>be quite kind to animals. It's the people he surveys that worry me. I had
>no doubt he voted for Bush and liked it.
>
>The Robert story is my way of understanding these fancy places with
>semi-rich people, their weird families and the kids who get a glock.
>Somehow these places are toxic. It really is a sociological mystery. I
>thought my experiences were unique. They were not. They were average.
>
>CG
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