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"Myths Over Miami"; an amazing and tragic reflection on folklore.

MadassAlexMadassAlex
edited 2012-07-31 05:58:13 in Meatspace
One foot in front of the other, every day.

Here's the article. 


I have few words as of now. There's a lot to take in here, from the cultural aspects to the visceral human suffering. Note that it's quite out of date, being published in 1997, but it's amazing how the children's quasi-Christian folklore reflects a pop-cultural understanding of religion mixed with both a sense of despair and denial of that despair. 

Comments

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    holy shit are you preparing some sort of mega essay that will kill us all?

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    it will probably be so long it crashes our browsers when we try to load it

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    I'm just expecting the anti-life equation in essay form. which would mean that holy shit we have darkseid as a mod

  • KrakenKraken
    I aaw that article a long time ago while reading Digger.



    It's a terrible tale.
  • KrakenKraken
    edited 2012-07-31 10:18:48
    You know what else is terrible?

    Double-posts.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    Hey I remember this.


    Apparently it's fake, though? I dunno. 

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Some things do seem a bit "off". Some of the anecdotes are perhaps too tragic, although I might have chalked that up to cherry picking on behalf of the journalist. 

  • KrakenKraken
    Lazuli: Didn't you write a song about it?
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Juan: Wouldn't Alex be more likely to be some sort of possessed sword or something?

  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    Lazuli: Didn't you write a song about it?



    I would prefer to not discuss my *ahem* "songwriting", but yes. 


    I don't honestly care if it's fake or not, I just find the mythology interesting and the plight of Florida's children tragic regardless, but quite a lot of people seem to think it is (there's an example in the comments of the article itself, actually). 

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