RE: Our Boys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perf

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:40:57 -0800


[rohit]
>> Are there words enough for the vileness of what went on in Glen Ridge?
>> And that it goes on so many other places, so many other times? Like
>> most, I read the news stories about the 'baseball bat and the retarded

[tim, quoting]
> Suburban life ain't what it seems
> [...]

Tim's on the right track. There is music out there that, along with its
lyrics, begins to convey the appropriate level of anger and outrage.
Unfortunately most of my early punk is on LPs and thus at work. All my
Nirvana is at work too, otherwise I'd quote Cobain describing a couple of
teenage rapists (said to have been "inspired" by a Nirvana song) as "wastes
of sperm and eggs".

- Joe