The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

[Forrest Gunter]

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>Yea, verily, she was a bit nutso--a significant part of which may have come 
>from her having been persecuted up in Baltimore or wherever, i.e., the 
>un-fabled Lenny Bruce syndrome.  And, as you kind of imply, she was exposed 
>to all manner of who knows what the hell down here. She was also somewhat 
>mean as hell in her face time with others, which can lead to paranoiac 
>miscalculations and not acting in accord with the obvious.  (Ed. note: An 
>excellent example of which was when my lovely old crazy pal Mary Pettigrew, 
>having hitched into Austin at night--crazy enough right there--accepted a 
>ride from the born-to-die motherfucker who shot her about 30 seconds later 
>when she didn't want to come across sexually; Mary told me that as she 
>opened the door to get in the car, she was thinking to herself, "That's a 
>bullet hole in the windshield.")
I found MMO to be extremely witty, funny and a great conversationalist.
Finally, as a constitutional philosopher/activist, IMHO, we all owe her, if 
any of that'll turn out to have made any difference as the international 
police state trundles us toward being microdots suitable for extra-galactic 
colonization.

>Ya know, Packy, Madalyn lived so hard and so intensely
>with boringly complicated family fighting plus being a
>"public figure" that it wasn't totally surprising that she got
>herself killed in so innovative a way. That she would have
>convinced herself that amassing $50K in gold coins was
>a smart thing to do in her exposed position suggests that
>she was truly looney tunes.
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest Gunter" <fpgunter at hotmail.com>
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>>During my failed career as a public access producer/ interviewer I did a 
>>45-minute interview with MMO; it was the most blazingly witty shit ever 
>>put on tape.  Trouble was, the sound man--whom I plan to murder in my next 
>>life--got not one phoneme recorded.
>>                                Job or whoever the long-sufferin mofo was
>>P.S.: I doubt that one's ex ux had the wit or humility to putlo in the 
>>libro.
>>
>>
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>>>The name of the book is America's Most Hated Woman
>>>and the author is Ann Rowe, Joe and Benny's sister.
>>>
>>>$24.95
>>>
>>>Monday April 4th at Book People at 7pm the author
>>>will read from the book and sign copies.
>>>
>>>You will remember reading her first book about Jimmy
>>>Swaggert.
>>>
>>>I for 1 actually met Madelyn. I was friends with Liz
>>>Katerle a producer of tv documentaries at Channel
>>>9 and she took me with her on a visit to Madelyn's office. I was 
>>>introduced and shook hands but didn't get any real face to face time with 
>>>M because she was having a family crisis with a husband or ex-husband or 
>>>whatever.
>>>
>>>She had quite a bit of presence though. Most of all
>>>I was struck by her extremely plummy accent, that
>>>of Maryland old families. That accent in and of itself can be quite a big 
>>>helping hand in the world.
>>>
>>>On a related subject I found Naipaul's latest novel
>>>at the library Magic Seeds. He has apparently read
>>>Sir Vidia's Shadow and if i read him aright he is
>>>conceding in Paul Theroux's opinion (expressed
>>>in Theroux's biography of Naipaul) that his, Naipaul's,
>>>second wife is/was quite common.
>>>
>>>Naipaul gets off some superb one-liners. For example, "But I expected 
>>>better of someone who
>>>had married me."
>>>
>>>
>>
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