Someone should remake Love American Style for the modern era the same way that Charlie Brooker brought back the Twilight Zone for a new generation in the form of Black Mirror… And the first episode, I think, should draw its inspiration from the following story.
If you haven’t read the news, it would appear that Charles Manson’s fresh-faced, 27-year-old fiancée, Afton Elaine Burton, known as Star, might not have actually loved the evil, old con man for his music, or even his politics, but for the value that his preserved corpse might have fetched on the open market. According to journalist Daniel Simone, Burton and her friend, Craig Hammond, had come up with the idea a few years ago to acquire Manson’s corpse through matrimony, with the intention of putting it under glass somewhere and charging people to approach it.
I would have thought it impossible for me to feel even the slightest twinge of sympathy for Manson, but these are strange times that we live in.
It’s difficult to imagine a more uniquely American love story, so perfectly reflective of the thoroughly hollow, nihilistic society in which we live… This, my friends, is the modern Valentine’s Day parable that I think we’ve all been waiting for.
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There have to be easier ways to make a living.
I’m 90% certain this is why Linette married you.
I’ll agree that it’s a dark and depressing story, but just imagine how we could turn around the Water Street development if we were able to secure the glass Manson crypt for Ypsilanti. Just imagine the restaurants popping up around it, the t-shirt shops, the fudge stores. It would be a godsend.
Should one of our local Ypsi women try to seduce him away from Star?
There’s also a story going around that she was after his hidden fortune:
“Charles Manson’s Son Claims Star Burton Is After Serial Killer’s Hidden Fortune”
If we are able to secure him for Ypsi, I’d suggest that we put him in the window of the closed, junk filled store next to Beezy’s. Visually it would be an improvement.
This sounds like an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Any plan that begins with “marry Manson” and ends with “profit” is a good plan.
Here’s an idea… we put him on a Segway and make him an animatronic ambassador for downtown Ann Arbor.