Yes, I'm Still Harping On That
► I need to do something to start drumming up interest in my journal and get some more readers and commentators (Malcolm needs support). Maybe I should start pretending this is a journal from a terminally ill 14 year old girl. Oh, terminally ill 14 year old girl/former prostitute. Who now writes best selling novels.KimW: I know a couple of
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On another of your points, I'm always bemused by the "social drug use" argument, regardless of the potency of the drug. I don't care if someone wants to drink a neurotoxin like alcohol--or inhale one like crack--to impair their cognition as long as they do it in seclusion. It's when they go out in public and do it that they irritate, hinder, and endanger others, thus creating a problem.
And that is why I do not have a social life, and never will. :-P
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The novel/prostitute girl bit was a reference to Anthony Godby Johnson who wrote the autobiography A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story. He wrote the book when he was a teenager, about his horrific childhood abuse at the hands of his parents (who brutally beat and raped him and prostituted him to friends and pedophiles) until he turned 11, was adopted and found to have AIDS. Horrific indeed, if he actually existed.
The book and the boy were hailed by multiple award winning authors and media people, that is, until they started realizing that no one had ever seen or meet the boy, and his voice sounded suspiciously like his adopted mother. Author/radio host Armistead Maupin was one of those duped and wrote a novel based on his experience called The Night Listener, which was turned into the movie of the same name. It's the film quoted in this journal entry.
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