Today I saw something that just blew my mind. Meggie and I were just leaving the building after getting our marriage license issued. As we strolled out, a young kid, late teens or early 20s, walked by us. He was one of those kids who apparently is “radical” and/or “too cool for school.” He was pasty white and had disheveled hair that let me know this kid doesn’t care (in the cool way). He had about 25 metal things in his face, and he walked with a strut that told me he wasn’t going to be bothered by “fascist” mom and dad’s pleas that he get a job, even though they pay his rent. What really horrified me about this kid, who I am sure is named Theodore but goes by the name “Viper” is that he was sporting an Ed Gein shirt.
Really? Ed Gein? The mass murdering homosexual with a love/hate complex for his mother? Ed Gein, who murdered numerous innocent women and decided to wear their skin as clothes. Granted, Gein did enjoy baby-sitting (seriosuly, look it up), but he also enjoyed fashioning socks out of flesh and using skulls as cups. Gross, just gross. Why would you wear something like that, “Viper?”
Maybe you should have picked a different shirt. Ed Gein does not say “attitude.” It’s not cool. It’s perverse and an an indication that you don’t know about how horrible this sociopath was.
Now, if you wore a Ted Bundy shirt. That’s cool. Ted Bundy was a ladies man, Viper.
- David C. Garcia
I saw the Ed Gein movie. Seriously disturbing. And I believed he also used skulls as soup bowls, but I could be wrong.