Interview with the sole survivor of Heaven's Gate
The LA Weekly has an interesting interview with the sole survivor of the Heaven's Gate cult, known for their Hale-Bopp-inspired mass suicide of 39 members. The 10th anniversary of the suicide is this Monday, and he's still a believer.
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Wow, this is a mess of an article. It's hard to weed through this thing for a succinct story.
The LA Weekly can be a bit self-indulgent. Alt-weeklies can be important platforms for stories left out of mainstream papers, but sometimes I do want to smack their writers.
considering what even our paper of record is going through (grazer-gate!), it's no surprise the second (or third) rung isn't quite up to snuff. sigh. (LA) times like these only serve to reinforce the anti-intellectual stereotype of this city.
i'm not sure -gate should be applied to non-political scandals.
i didn't make up the name. it was la observed, though defamer certainly ran with it:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/03/grazergate.php
http://defamer.com/hollywood/grazergate/
yeah, i've seen the term before. i just don't like the generalized snowclone.
Snowclones? We don't need no stinkin' snowclones! I always say the only good snowclone is a dead snowclone.
I so want to get my hands on that screenplay. I imagine it would be like Battlefield Earth but better.
By that do you mean not as bad as Battlefield Earth, or more ridiculous than BE?
I mean more ridiculous, but no where nearly as good as Be (by which I mean bad)
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