Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
Morbid Curiosity Changed My Life"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-- commonly attributed to George Orwell
I grew up on a farm. As a girl, I caught snakes bare-handed and watched my dad dress slaughtered rabbits. I wasn't allowed to get attached to the farm animals, because they were around only to appear on the dinner table. When I graduated from my small-town high school, I attended two years at the local branch of the University of Michigan. In Flint. In 1981. Between the auto industry closing factories and the crack epidemic, there were vast stretches of the city where a farm girl could be pulled over by the police, just for driving while white. It took me a while to realize that I had to get out.
When I first moved to San Francisco in 1988, my husband Mason Jones and I attended a slideshow about the early days of RE/Search Publications. At the time, RE/Search was notorious for the books Incredibly Strange Filmsread full excerpt from: Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine 'Morbid Curiosity' ebook
