There are never enough notebooks

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:38:52 -0800

Jesus and Judas, the latest project by Avery Edison. Avery also writes an amusing twitter, an intermittent daily vlog called the Weekly Show, a serious business personal journal, and oh also a million other things as well.

The short life of an aquatot

stupidsexyFlanders — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:36:21 -0800

Russell Tongay cheerfully dropped his preschoolers into the Mississippi River. Two-year-old Kathy made it five miles before he pulled her out. Her five-year-old brother Bubba finally staggered to shore after 22 miles. Merely a warmup, their beaming father told the media gathered on the St. Louis riverbank, for what would be his children's crowning achievement: to swim the English Channel, England to France, a crossing that in 1950 had been completed only four times. And so began the short, sad celebrity of the Aquatots, another chapter in America's morbid fascination with children pushed by parents and coaches beyond overachievement into the realm of abuse and endangerment. Although the appalled British and French refused the Tongays permission to attempt the Channel swim, America reveled in the performances of the prodigies. By 1953 it was all over, Kathy dead of internal injuries suffered in a high dive, her father convicted of manslaughter in her death, and son Bubba, forever bound to the water, destined for a (not unblemished, scroll to the bottom) career as a lifeguard

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