Kevin Kline never lied to me

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Hey, listen, read this, from the SF Gate. column written by Jon Carroll -- as my friend Jesse says, one of San Francisco's treasures.

"And I am a child of the media. I was alone a lot as a child, through no fault of my overworked single mother, and my companions were radio and television and books. I learned, for my own sanity, to distinguish between the real world and the media world and to treat them with different levels of seriousness.

I saw the World Trade Center collapse. I saw the White House blow up. Both of those events were on a television screen. I understand that one was "real" and one was "just a movie," but I have learned to distrust those distinctions. I have been lied to by presidents and press secretaries and financial experts, but Kevin Kline has always told me the truth. Is a lie about the real world better than the truth about an unreal world?"

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Jon Carroll

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What I find amazing is that today Jon Carroll and Adair Lara (on the same site, read her) do not agree. And yet they are both right. We are hypocritical not to grieve the hundreds of thousands dead in Rwanda, and yet we must grieve these thousands whom we don't know because they are ours.

I have no idea what any of that means. But I wrote fic this morning. Because I had to. And, big surprise, it's angsty.