So as you L.A. residents may have heard, Hal Fishman passed away early this morning. While I am sorry for his family's loss, I'm not devastated. And I can't help but wonder if I am an insensitive asshole, or if everyone else an imbecile. Tonight they had a 45 minute tribute to him on KTLA. I expected no less. "Hal Fishman was a family man." So are a lot of other men. "Hal Fishman loved children. He never talked down to them." Then why did he patronize his viewers with his unwelcome commentaries? "Hal Fishman liked Wagner." Ukh. How gauche. I bet he was even willing to look beyond Wagner's extreme anti-semitism just to use those comp tickets for Lohengrin at the Dorothy Chandler.
Maybe I am an insensitive asshole. But maybe everyone else is also an imbecile. One woman sent KTLA an email that made it on the air. It said something like, "Although I never knew Hal personally, my mother and I have been crying our eyes out all morning. It's like we lost a member of our own family." Give me a break. These are the same people who cried when JFK was shot. I just don't understand how people fall so stupidly in love with idols. Everyone in the world is afflicted with the early stage of an Electra complex. And how convenient; authority can't exist without the image of a father. The papacy keeps over 1 billion people in check. It's the same recurring model. New time, new setting, new daddy. There was Father Stalin, the Führer, Il Duce, John Paul II, Grandpa Lenin, Ghandi, JFK, Dumbledore... And now Hal Fishman will join the ranks of these great men. Have no fear, your iconoclast is here.
4 comments:
i love your blogs... you're my idol... you are my hal...
u have to understand that some things are not actually meant for you even though they're on TV. after so many years of that nigga being on tv... his family would be pretty pissed if they did a 3 second deal by saying... oh yeah hal died. AND who cares even if they did 6 hours tribute...why do you waste your energy on stupid things like these... i want to see real content, not just excellent writing. it reads like kobe playing bball with kids.
i want to fuck your cynicism.
love, lara
i agree with anonymous @ 12:11:00 A.M ... youre my Hal... just younger and sexier...oh yea and ur alive.. but i promise when you die.. i will have a 50 hour tribute.
It will consist of me reading every blog you have written (that i can get my hands on) and then talking about how you loved kids, you liked to help old people, you loved pizza and you were never mean to it, and of course Goodwill's #1 fan.
oh bros for life.
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