by Jerome du Bois
I'll call him Mal, which stands for both amalgam and malevolent. Amalgam because there's more than one, each anonymous, and malevolent because they enjoy bayoneting the wounded.
When this latest and last local art brouhaha began, we were inundated with vile and bullying comments. Well, the damn discussion was going nowhere, and so I posted our modest Grand vision and was getting ready to move on --when I received another comment which claimed that my wife was the same Christian Scientist woman who allowed her own daughter to die back in the Eighties.
It's false, of course, and the facts are easy to check. But it was very important to Mal that my wife be the CS woman, so he has been sending this accusatory comment to every post that's been open. So I'm closing them all, since Mal includes a phone number and address with it. How helpful that he wants hell brought to our ears and our very door. What a nice man. Oh, yes, most of these people, and the main Mals, are probably men.
And then it struck me that Mal had this information at the beginning of the whole comment thread, passed it on to others --and then began a whole flurry of disgusting fisking, including sexual slander about Catherine and I. In other words, whether they believed the CS story or not, they wanted to --and that didn't stop them from piling on and trying to hurt her, and me, even more. And when we objected, they just sneered back that we if we couldn't take it we were weaklings. Yeah, yeah, yeah --this from faceless ambushers. Well, we're not weak, we'll keep on blogging about more important things than Phoenix art, and all the Mals can fold it six ways and put it where the sun don't shine.
I think I know who the main Mal is. If I'm right --Phoenix, you've got what you asked for. With him around, Phoenix will remain a drone among cities.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment with Theo van Gogh. We're working on a new screenplay together. I've found that the innocent dead are so much human than many of the living, and the zombies who pretend to be.
Posted by Jerome at June 22, 2005 09:00 AM | TrackBack