Um, and I'm a smartass. It was required to join the 'fistas.
Ha!
Hil R. is a stoner, pass it on! And also, I hope you get some good, pain-free sleep. Don't mean to mock without empathy.
Oh, and in totally unrelatedness, Jilli, if your next article is about Goth and religion, I have a few links that might interest you. One is to a group that does a Goth outreach tent at a Christian festival put on by a bunch of hippies. And one is to a couple of Christian Goth bands.
We were just thinking about them recently, because we were hanging out with our buddy the other night. Crazy photographer guy, lives in a tepee in Wyoming, travels around and shoots photos. Anyway, years ago, we'd invited him to come with us to that festival and he'd said, sure. He turned up, late because he'd been roaming the grounds trying to find us. So I took him straight to the show tents, directly to one of those bands.
Only I didn't tell him it was a Goth band, or anything about them. So his first experience with Christian music is this crazy theatrical band dipping flags in stage blood and setting things on fire and singing, "Apocalypse" in dulcet tones.
Hee.
He still tells that story.
Anyway, I'm super interested in what you turn up for your next article, and I'm happy to talk to you about perceptions about the goth community from the Christian side of things if it would be at all helpful to you. Profile addy good.