Tuesday, February 27, 2007

the classic middle name

so i am starting to research sufjan songs. as much as one can, i guess. i started with an easy one. john wayne gacy, jr. so i really didn't know much about this serial killer. apparently he was pretty crazy. or he wasn't and that is what is scary. i learned some stuff that i didn't really enjoy reading about, though some of it was pretty interesting. i won't post about it extensively because i am sure most people know all about him. i usually prefer to pretend like that stuff doesn't really happen, especially when it includes children or animals. this is hard to do when you are a Christian and you read the Bible. at least i can not watch the news, right? (i bet i sound pretty educated right now). anywho...the main thing i was hoping to address was the end of the song when sufjan says something intensely profound and life-changing. but then i decided to wait on that because this was pretty apropos:

"The newspaper column, "News of the Weird," has reported so many (over 150 in 2005) stories of convicted murderers whose middle name is Wayne, it is sometimes known as "The Classic Middle Name." At 33 murders, John Wayne Gacy is the most murderous of all the Waynes. " (wikipedia)

hmm...

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stay away from
Joshua W. Spears, friends

5:43 PM  
Blogger keely said...

and his father-in-law.

1:14 PM  
Blogger Kara said...

i was watching the news last night and there was a story about a convicted rapist being released from prison after serving some years. i forget his first and last name, because this post came to mind - but his middle name is wayne.

12:34 PM  

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