but in fact it might even be sane. I have an acrobat's sense of these
things, a higher and finer touch.
So pack your bags and get ready to work on Groundhog Day. We
will have a strategy conference at the Beach Boy Cafe and then we will
creep out in the fog and do our filthy business. Welcome to the next
generation.
November 25, 1985
Revense of the Fish Heads
"And a thousand thousand slimy things lived on; and so did I."
โSam Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
vJne of the things you have to deal with in this business is being whipped
on by brainless freaks and special-interest pleaders. It never ends. On
some nights they gnaw on your doorknob, and on others they plot rotten
lawsuits and fondle themselves like chimpanzees in rooms lit by 25-watt
bulbs.
These things happen. Not everybody lives like the Cleavers. Some
people are bent like Joe Theismann's leg, but few of them work for the
Redskins, and nobody takes them to a hospital when their bones erupt
through their flesh.
We are all victims of this slime. They squawk on our telephones and
clog all the court calendars and fill our mailboxes with gibberish that
would get them indicted if people had time to press charges.
There is no cure for it. Some god with a sense of humor like Ed Winn
made them that way, for his own reasons. Only a few are really dan-
gerousโmaybe 1 or 2 percentโbut these are the ones who go over the
edge and kill and sHt and burn, or keep a hundred stray cats in their
condos and worship yellowed photos of Susan Atkins.