“I feel like I’m in a Verizon commercial and this is my network. Also, there are some religious nuts with judgment day signs. ‘Repent or else’? I’m going to go with else on this one. What do we want? ELSE! When do we want it? NOW!”
Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer... More by Christopher Frizzelle
I keep thinking of the preacher in Paint Your Wagon, singing to the crowd of unrepentant drunks and prostitutes, “Do you wanna go to heaven or go to hell?” and the entire crowd roars back, “Go to hell!”
even worse: oblivion, non-existence, non-being, nothingness. that’s one freaky fucking concept. that’s the “else” that freaks them out more than hell.