WIRED WEDNESDAY
WIRED WEDNESDAY
Every now and then I like to post strange/helpful/frightening stories that Clareified readers send me. Here are a few of the most noteworthy:
From one of Clareified’s new readers comes the story of a man whose friend encased his apartment in foil paper.
Kudos to the writer of the story for not calling it “FOILED!”
And from guest blogger J-ROAM the following suggestion for charitable giving:
> Donald Tilley died of an apparent heart attack yesterday, after his “hour
> out” on the yard.
>
> He was a wonderful client for the short time I was privileged to work for
> him, and he will be missed by his friends inside and outside the prison.
>
> His mother is 80 years old and on a fixed income. She has no burial
> insurance for him. If he is buried by the prison, she will not be able to
> visit his grave. If you are able to contribute something to his burial
> fund, send it to:
>
> Angels of Mercy
> P.O. Box 762
> Monroe, La.
> 71210-0762
> Please indicate on your check that the donation is for Don Tilley.
>
>
>
One person who knew him wrote:
“Donald Tilley, and inmate on death row in Angola, was one of the best people I have ever been privileged to know. He was a deeply religious man who was a spiritual advisor to many other inmates. Several NYU students had the opportunity to visit with him over the years through work with the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. More recently, his case has been handled by the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana.”
That’s the strange, the helpful… now, the frightening:
Also from J-Roam:
Lauryn Hill stuns Vatican Xmas concert
Sun 14 December, 2003 16:01
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Hip Hop singer Lauryn Hill, from a stage used by the Pope, has shocked Catholic officials at a concert by telling them to “repent” and alluding to sexual abuse of children by U.S. priests.
The broadside came during the recording on Saturday night of a Christmas concert attended by top Vatican cardinals, bishops and many elite of Italian society, witnesses said.
Hill made her comments when taking the microphone to sing at the concert, held in the same huge hall and stage Pope John Paul uses for his weekly general audiences and other events. The Pope was not present.
“I did not come here to celebrate the birth of Christ with you but to ask you why you are not in mourning for his death
inside this place,” she said according to a transcript of her statement run by the Rome newspaper La Repubblica.
A spokesman for Prime Time Productions, the concert’s organisers, said the newspaper’s quotes were accurate.
“God has been a witness to the corruption of his leadership, of the exploitation and abuses … by the clergy,” she said.
This was an apparent reference to the scandal in the United States last year over the sexual abuse of children by priests.
Hill told the crowd to seek blessings “from God not men” and said she did “not believe in representatives of God on earth.”
A few feet away in the front row sat five cardinals, including Edmund Szoka, American governor of Vatican City.
Hill, 28, did not sing the song listed on the programme but instead sang a song about social injustice.
Organisers said Hill’s outburst and performance would most probably be cut from the show when it is aired on Christmas Eve.
Hill shot to fame in the mid 1990s with band The Fu
gees whose album “The Score” sold 17 million copies to become one of the biggest Hip Hop chart successes of all time.
She went on to win five Grammy awards for debut solo album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”. She has a son and daughter by Rohan Marley, the son of Reggae legend Bob Marley.
I just have to say: “Dude, that is so Sinead.”