Plan B Forum

John Scalzi said it so much better than I can.

"She was troubled and erratic and brilliant and one of the indelible voices of my generation, and she was f***ing right about the Catholic Church, for all the good it did her in this life. Genius doesn't make for an easy life, but genius she was, and I'm glad that for a time she got to express her particular strain of genius in this world. May she rest well."

But for those who do not recall, I quote Jon Pareles, in the NY Times of November 1, 1992:

"You think it's easy to get booed at Madison Square Garden? Maybe it is for a visiting hockey team, but at a rock concert, drawing boos qualifies as a perverse kind of achievement. Sinead O'Connor, who was booed (as well as cheered) at the Bob Dylan tribute on Oct. 16, once again showed that she has a gift that's increasingly rare.: the ability to stir full-fledged outrage. She has stumbled onto the new 1990's taboo: taking on an authority figure."

snailgate.

I shed some tears this afternoon when I saw the breaking news. I feared she would take her life after her son took his and guess that is probably what happened, or her heart just gave out which in a middle aged survivor of childhood abuse and a parent of a suicided child is not such an unusual thing.

I just recently watched the very good documentary about Sinead called Nothing Compares. She was a beautiful person who suffered so much pain in her life and channeled it into some really brilliant music. I have respected her so much since she took on the Catholic Church and for insisting on doing things her way in the music industry, no small feat either.

I almost want to believe there is a place beyond where she and Shane are now together again. But I will settle for knowing that her interminable pain is ended.

Sail on, Skinhead O'Connor.  And you can take k.d. lang with you.

-"BB"-

Great voice and wonderful singer. Got trounced for calling out the head of the largest crime family in the world. Largest, most vicious, most savage.

Stealing 50,000 Spanish newborns and selling them for very high prices. Covering up and refusing to apologize. Torturing and.abusing children IN EVERY COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVE LOOKED. The countries which suppressed them were doing gods work, as it turns out.

Dixie Chicks had a similar treatment