...And Rust Inside Our Veins.
From talking to Todd, Tam, Linds and Bob I've noticed that there's a growing interest in Chuck Palahniuk (after me and Cait have been gushing about him for so long, it's about time), and I think that's fantastic. I recently came across his Wikipedia biography and figured I'd share this rather tragic excerpt:
The year 1999 brought great personal tragedy to Palahniuk's life. At that time, his father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine whom he had met through a personal ad under the title "Kismet". Fontaine had recently put her ex-boyfriend Dale Shackleford in prison for sexual abuse. Shackleford had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. Palahniuk believes that through her personal ad, Fontaine was looking for "the biggest man she could find" to protect her from Shackleford and Palahniuk's father fit this description.[7] After his release, Shackleford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's home in Kendrick, Idaho, after they had gone out for a date. Shackleford then shot them both and dragged their bodies into Fontaine's cabin home, which he set on fire immediately afterwards. In the spring of 2001, Shackleford was found guilty for two counts of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. In the wake of these events, Palahniuk began working on the novel Lullaby. According to him, he wrote the novel to help him cope with having helped decide to have Shackleford get the death sentence.
That sounds like something he would write in one of his books, but he actually lived through it. Kind of makes you cringe.
I'm gonna go bang out Diary. Maybe I'll update on my crazy life a bit later... but I doubt it. For now I'll just say that back-to-back 6:30 and 6 AM nights and three in four days would catch up to the average person, but luckily I'm not all that average. Especially when it comes to sleep habits.
The year 1999 brought great personal tragedy to Palahniuk's life. At that time, his father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine whom he had met through a personal ad under the title "Kismet". Fontaine had recently put her ex-boyfriend Dale Shackleford in prison for sexual abuse. Shackleford had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. Palahniuk believes that through her personal ad, Fontaine was looking for "the biggest man she could find" to protect her from Shackleford and Palahniuk's father fit this description.[7] After his release, Shackleford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's home in Kendrick, Idaho, after they had gone out for a date. Shackleford then shot them both and dragged their bodies into Fontaine's cabin home, which he set on fire immediately afterwards. In the spring of 2001, Shackleford was found guilty for two counts of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. In the wake of these events, Palahniuk began working on the novel Lullaby. According to him, he wrote the novel to help him cope with having helped decide to have Shackleford get the death sentence.
That sounds like something he would write in one of his books, but he actually lived through it. Kind of makes you cringe.
I'm gonna go bang out Diary. Maybe I'll update on my crazy life a bit later... but I doubt it. For now I'll just say that back-to-back 6:30 and 6 AM nights and three in four days would catch up to the average person, but luckily I'm not all that average. Especially when it comes to sleep habits.