{"id":912,"date":"2009-05-12T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-05-29T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T17:05:05","slug":"the-teachings-of-carl-on-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/05\/the-teachings-of-carl-on-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teachings of Carl on Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Vice<\/em> magazine has just run a blog post of mine, an invitation into the world and works of Carl Johnson<\/a>, whom I visited last month in his hometown of Thornton, IL. He’s a man of cosmic imagination who doesn’t get on well with his neighbors. Check out the pamphlet I published in 2006 of one of his ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n As we stood together in the backyard, he revealed to me that his deterioration isn’t entirely because of natural causes. The people in town have turned against him<\/a>, spreading terrible rumors, and worse. A self-taught “Christian Pastor,” Carl insists he has done nothing wrong. There is a bullet hole in a second floor window. But he can’t tell me any more for a few months yet.<\/p>\n “Lately I’ve been reading a lot from the last weeks of Jesus’s life,” he told me. “You have to admit there are a lot of parallels.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It’s a good start, and there’ll be more to come on Carl, as well as, hopefully, more adventures in Viceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>Vice<\/em> magazine has just run a blog post of mine, an invitation into the world and works of Carl Johnson<\/a>, whom I visited last month in his hometown of Thornton, IL. He’s a man of cosmic imagination who doesn’t get on well with his neighbors. Check out the pamphlet I published in 2006 of one of his ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n