Inherent Vice Review: St. Petersburg Times

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:51 AM, rich wrote:

> Doc can't  bear to look but sure is partly turned on by them;  cf:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/my-acid-trip-with-squeaky_b_252681.html
>
> rich

Don't forget John Waters series in HuffPo on Leslie Van Houten:

	. . . Manson watched on camera his middle-aged despondent
  co-defendant Patricia Krenwinkel (who thought the first trial was a
  "play") tell Diane Sawyer, "Every day I wake up and I know that I am
  a destroyer of the most precious thing there is -- life." His
  gentlemanly response? "She got old on me," he snorted. What a
  reward for the hippy girl who stupidly gave up her life for him when
  she was nineteen years old. A girl convicted of seven murders for
  the man she believed was God, a woman so defeated now that she
  doesn't even ask outside her friends or family to write letters of
  support to the Parole Board because she "doesn't believe a date
  will be given." What a tribute to the one time flower-child who is
  described now by Karlene Faith as "a good-hearted woman who
  suffers the anguished burden of interminable guilt." How kind
  Manson is to his now horrified ex-follower who told a Parole Board
  in 1993, "it is very different to live with the fact that I could do
  something so horrible because that is not who I am, not what I
  believe in. On a day-to-day basis it is a terribly difficult thing  
to live
  with because I feel terrible. But no matter what I do, I can't change
  it," she sobbed. "I am paying for this as best as I can. There is
  nothing more I can do outside of being dead," she cried as the
  board members watched her nervously, "and I know this is what
  you wish, but I can't take my life. I'm sorry..." she mumbled looking
  down in complete defeat.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_246953.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_246996.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_247025.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_247113.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-waters/leslie-van-houten-a-frien_b_247142.html

>
> On 8/7/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> It takes a beach-dweller to really appreciate a "Beach Read."
>>
>> Colette Bancroft hails from tampabay.com.:
>>
>> 	. . . the Golden Fang may be more of a MacGuffin than a threat.
>> 	The true horror that haunts the book's nostalgia for a golden
>> 	moment in time is the Manson Family murders, which occurred
>> 	just before the book's action and turned the peaceful hippie
>> 	ethos inside out in one monstrous night. Doc, Bigfoot and
>> 	others refer to them glancingly, as if they can't bear to look at
>> 	them straight on.
>>
>> http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece
>>