Curse Christmas, I don't want to write about Christmas. False start, balk, let me start over... 

Yesterday I spent one of my few remaining days until work dries up all of my freetime sitting in a caffeinated stew in front of the television.  Which means I chalked up 3 1/2 hours of viewing.  Springer was Springer and that's now about as unfaked as a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor now.  The Simpsons was The Simpsons.  And then I watched a never before seen by me program, Buffy: the vampire slayer. 
The program is well done.  Elements of the show are as stylized as films by the old Italian horror masters like Bava and a moderate Fulci, but never reaches the artistry of Argento.  The look of the monsters with the silver "I'm a happy monster" grins, their smooth "Spike Lee" movement, "Pepe Le Pew" method of stalking, and ability to describe themselves without quotes were all great flourishes elevating what could be your average girl fights demon story to a position deserving at least some respect.  Unfortunately the dialogue is about as good as it is in the Italian horror films too.  But the monsters' heads explode in a deluge of thick green snot that shoots up into the air so who cares? 

T.V. is good especially when Time magazine chooses to run a cover story on Columbine six months after the point.  They are healing.  Trying to understand.  That much you average three year old would know.  But the news is they had video tapes of Klebold and Harris planning the attack, their own deaths and their perceived take on the aftermath.  Law enforcement let the media view the tapes and through them, filter it to us.  I haven't properly distilled my feelings on the whole mess, but firstly, why can't we be shown the tapes?  Are they worried about how it may hurt the victims' families?  Tough.  Information should not be stifled no matter who is hurt.  Restriction of the free flow of information based on peoples' feelings can not be allowed or tolerated.  The abuses from a jock culture against the kids perceived as different, the school says was overplayed in the media yet they interview a football player espousing his views that the whole school was against Klebold, Harris and people like them.  "But what do you expect when you come to school with a weird haircut," he says.  Then he goes on a mini-tirade about how they're all homos and sick and wrong.  Hate is hate.  K & H hated with guns and, in my opinion, too randomly.  Our psychopaths and monomaniacs need guidance, direction.  I'd love to give it to them.  Steer them towards significant targets, get them to control their rage. 
I'm a bad one.  I can't say Columbine was a tragedy.  Remeber when AIDS wasn't a tragedy because 'only fags was dyin'?'  When it was simply 'what those faggots get for livin' that way?'  You remember.  Parents, teachers, t.v., film, and all media, just keep lashing out in hate of others, keep the ball rolling.  I want fifty Klebolds and Harriss in every  city of America, and I want them armed to the armpits with every firearm this country makes it so easy to obtain.  And then I want everyone to blame videogames and Marilyn Manson and maybe even flag burning if you can find a new twist on that.  Ooo, Oooo...blame those darwin fish things people are putting on their cars too.  Jesus hates those. 
 
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