by Travis Mateer
Why did I choose WHALE for my song? I was thinking of “elephant in the room” and wanted to go bigger, since I was going to combine whale with an incendiary word that rhymes with “trigger”. And why was I going to do that?
My reaction to author Stephanie Land’s literary threat at the second marathon Council meeting in less than two weeks resulted in two N-bombs dropped in this post because I continue to think how Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry died is monumentally significant, so if I have to use the kind of language that is sure to get noticed, well, that’s what I’m going to do, since I can’t claim the literary privilege of having 100 million people now familiar with my story like Stephanie Land can.
I did NOT watch the end of the Council meeting on Monday, I listened to it in my box truck instead, so I didn’t see the t-shirt Stephanie Land was wearing–I only noticed it while filming her public comment because a lag between the video/audio made me avoid filming her face since the lag was distracting.
Here’s the comment, see why the shirt got my attention?
Yes, Land was wearing a t-shirt featuring a KILLER Whale with the phrase SINK THE RICH on it. Listen to my song and it will just heighten the synchronicity.
Wild Kingdom indeed!
Later today I’ll be throwing up a bonus post with the link to my special profile of Ellie Boldman on this special day for the Poverello Center, my former employer.
Thanks for reading!
