Well At Least He Saw Pol Pot Go First

Very sad to see that Spalding Gray has died. However, as the Guardian Obituary says, this might all be an elaborate ruse to allow him to attend his own funeral and write a monologue about it. Gray played a relatively minor part in The Killing Fields (which I borrowed on DVD this weekend) but came to major note for his filmed monologue Swimming To Cambodia. This is simply Gray, at a table, in front of an audience in what appears to be a simple New-York theatre stage, mouthing off about whatever interests him. Very powerful and very funny. See it!

While trying to find a picture of the dead Pol Pot, just as proof that he really has gone, I came across many pictures of the Victims of his regime taken by their own guards. There are many prison-style photos, a sort of ludicrous repetition of the utter evil of what was done to them in the name of pure political extremism.

And now, with no real link from one thing to another, The Henry Kissinger Show. Satire is dead! Long Live Satire.