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	<title>Jonathan Green &#187; death</title>
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		<title>Britt Lapthorne &#8230; WTF?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/jonathan/2008/10/20/britt-lapthorne-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I missing something in the Britt Lapthorne story? Any child&#8217;s death is undoubtedly an appalling tragedy for the parents involved &#8230;. but candlelit vigils? Public memorial services? Weeks of breathless coverage in the Australian media? Why no state funeral? It&#8217;s absurd. It speaks of something grisly and voyeuristic I reckon. Some empty place in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am I missing something in the Britt Lapthorne story? Any child&#8217;s death is undoubtedly an appalling tragedy for the parents involved &#8230;. but candlelit vigils? Public memorial services? Weeks of breathless coverage in the Australian media? Why no state funeral? It&#8217;s absurd. It speaks of something grisly and voyeuristic I reckon. Some empty place in the public soul that is filled by events like these. A vacuum sensed by the mass media. It&#8217;s like grieving for a TV character. Or a dead princess. The other obvious strand to it is the automatic reflex of the popular media to revel in victimhood, and sense some inevitable conspiracy of uncaring authorities. I don&#8217;t know it just feels weird to me. I feel for the Lapthornes &#8230; what a hideous situation. But I don&#8217;t see why we are so suddenly and overwhelmingly either grief struck or obsessed by this one sad death.</p>
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		<title>And I always hated Warren Zevon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/jonathan/2008/09/12/and-i-always-hated-warren-zevon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I love this. We did this thing this week where we asked people to tell us what they would do with their last five hours, just in case the Hadron Collider did in fact bring about instant oblivion. There was a really strange sense that came from what people wrote. I don’t want to take it all too seriously, but there was an amused serenity about the last things they wanted to do.]]></description>
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<p>But I love this. We did this thing this week where we asked people to tell us what they would do with their last five hours, just in case the Hadron Collider did in fact bring about instant oblivion. There was a really strange sense that came from what people wrote. I don&#8217;t want to take it all too seriously, but there was an amused serenity about the last things they wanted to do. And I wondered if that was something you might find individually in the face of a quiet little death, or if it was a function of this collective anticipation &#8230; if us all going down together made it somehow easier to navigate.</p>
<p>Poor Warren. He just got fucked up. This is the song he wrote when they told him he had cancer. Cool riff.</p>
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