The Black Hole
  • some fava beans and a nice chianti. My Hannibal Lecter/Thomas Harris page.
  • Wife Bites Her Husband to Death
  • Cry for War
  • Patty Hearst
  • Pro-Anorexia. These sites don't have much longevity, probably because they are built by teenage girls whose parents then force into treatment or their web server is pressured to remove such an "unhealthy" site. However, as fast as they disappear, new sites come up. They are places where anorexics can share information, feel less isolated, and express their feelings. Most of these sites are not anti-recovery. These sites vary in the degree of ambivalence towards anorexia. Some are completely "pro," denying that anorexia is a disorder at all while others acknowledge it's a disorder but state they are not interested in recovery (at this time). They usually warn the visitor that if they are in recovery, the site might "trigger" them. They also (on their bulletin boards) show compassion and understanding towards both those who are trying to stop and those who don't want to stop. Some places even give information about how to reduce the harm of their practices. It would be most unfortunate if these sites were all to be banned. Viva freedom of speech!
  • Pure Evil. What is evil? I take a crack at the question.
  • Jonestown. Jones showed himself to be a madman way before he brought his people to Guyana. 6 Years With God, by Jeannie Mills, could be used as a case study of just how horribly wrong a society/cult can go. Now, Mrs. Mills and her family have been murdered. Hmmm. Wonder who did it...
  • Lockjaw
  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite deserves a place here. Wonderfully gothic and excessive, Brite, a resident of New Orleans (along with Anne Rice, Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson). Having gone on to read Lost Souls and Drawing Blood, I am really blown away by her work.
  • Poppy Brite is also known for her recent book, Courtney Love: The Real Story. I have problems with this book because it uncritically parrots Love's version of events in her life. I have problems with Love because of her stories about Trent Reznor. Why do I believe Trent instead of Love? I consider him a more reliable source. Love has a reputation for, shall we say, embellishing the truth. Nick Broomfield's recent documentary, Kurt and Courtney, which Courtney managed to have banned at the Sundance Film Festival, premiered at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, Friday, February 27, 1998. Of those who insist that it is true, best known is Tom Grant, who was hired by Love as a detective to find the missing Cobain immediately before his death. Grant is now on a crusade to prove Love was responsible for the death and hired him as a smokescreen. He points to claims that Cobain was about to divorce her and change his will. I have not found what hard evidence he has for his accusation, however.

    Another person to accuse Courtney is Richard Lee. I had to start sympathizing with Courtney, however, when I got to the most gossipy web site devoted to attacking Love, one that is no longer there. This site said, "Courtney Love is a lot of things - evil, greedy, amoral, cruel, obnoxious, psychopathic, violent, supremely manipulative, insane, disgusting (her childhood classmates used to call her "Pee Girl")." I consider that comment an extreme example of hitting below the belt. The taunt was caused by her hippie father's failure to provide decent grooming for the child. This same father is now publicly calling Courtney a murderer and presenting himself as an upstanding citizen who is showing Courtney "tough love." It seems screamingly unfair that a man who was so irresponsible during her childhood would be so righteous about her today while another man would blame her for her sad childhood. So, here is a pro-Courtney page to balance things, In Defense of Courtney
  • Strange Love, Lynn Hirschberg's notorious article in Vanity Fair, September 1992, that caused the government to question Courtney Love's and Kurt Cobain's fitness as parents.
  • Courtney tried for the role of Nancy Spungen in the movie Sid and Nancy. She didn't get the part but played a minor role as a friend of Nancy. Too bad. She would have been perfect for the role. She identified with Nancy and was a lot like her. Nancy's mother, who wrote And I Don't Want to Live the Life, contributed a poem to the web.
  • DANGER: Growing Families International is an organization that teaches parents how to "raise babies God's way." While everyone is certainly entitled to adopt whatever religious beliefs s/he cares to, this is one scary program which has real and serious consequences. It has been dubbed "tough love for newborns" and involves such a rigid feeding schedule for infants right from the womb that it has led to serious health problems such as babies needing to be hospitalized for dehydration. Now the Ezzos have published a book called Babywise which contains the same advice they have been giving under the guise of Christianity only in secular form. See Salon Mothers Who Think: Getting wise to 'Babywise' for more information. Another website critical of "Babywise" is Concerns about the Ezzos' Preparation for Parenting Class.
  • The Dark Tunnels of McMartin's. Just when we thought it was safe to discount "satanic ritual abuse," evidence of the real thing turns up. Perhaps, as this author suggests, the truth lies somewhere between extreme claims on either side. See also Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site, Manhattan Beach, California.
  • IPT Journal — The Missing Tunnel, a rebuttal of Dr. Summit's article above.
  • Marianne and the Smiler, an excerpt from Malachi Martin's book, Hostage to the Devil.
  • Michael Strong, Part 1, another excerpt from the same book.
  • Catherine of Siena, whose religious ecstacy included such extreme acts of self-mortification as eating the pus from wounds.
  • Marquis de Sade. Works, letters, life of the Divine Marquis.
  • Charlie Manson-dot-com
  • Access Manson. I've been a Manson buff ever since the Tate-LaBianca trials. The family is fascinating.
  • Sandy and Squeaky have a page, too. The girls are especially interesting. They are so pretty and innocent looking. Hardly what you would expect.
  • The Manson Girl Info Center
  • Free Squeaky Fromme
  • Manson Girls Info Center
  • Easy to Judge, Hard to Understand, Melissa Drexler, the "Prom Mom."
  • Leah Sublime, by Aleister Crowley, is justly known as the world's dirtiest poem. About it, he wrote in his diary, "28 June (1920EV)­I have sat up all night in the snows, writing a poem to Leah...7.00 A.M. I think I'll collect all my filth in one poem and mark it Leah in plain figures...10.00 A.M. I think I did." Warning: This is not for the squeamish or the kiddies. You have been warned.
  • Bob Flanagan, the "super masochist" who, having been born with cystic fibrosis, responded to the challenge of sickness, not by avoiding pain, which was his in abundance, but by delving into its full reality.
  • The Rape of the Presidency


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