Inherent Vice Review: St. Petersburg Times

[rich]

I've found those very good, too. He writes very well
once saw Mr Waters at the Gotham Book Mart (RIP)--didn't have the
courage to say hi
(p.s. his bit on the Simpsons is classic)

a thread I'd to explore a bit more when we discuss IV--the Manson women

pps: i'm re-reading IV
rich

On 8/7/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
>