Pen-Elayne on the Web

Don't Try This At Home

Are we, as a nation, becoming this punk'd? Or is this the slippery slope down which we inevitably slide when we start enjoying and extolling violence and grossness and other matters of poor taste as entertainment? First Roy gets mauled. Then a band plans to feature a live assisted suicide during its concert (got that item via Jeralyn Merritt; hey, way to "die with dignity"!). Now an illusionist is going to play Russian roulette on TV. Welcome to the circus, I guess. Update: Web Attack Postpones Suicide Rock Show. Update 2: "My concern is that the city cat won't make it in the country...He's going to have no jazz, no hip-hop. He's going to miss the Harlem Renaissance."