Interlude Over
I was in the middle of writing some long-winded piece about why I’ve been gone from this space for so long, but largely, I don’t think anyone cares, and anyway, what it boils down to is that I got a job and write a lot elsewhere.
I will say, though, that I have a new goal of writing an essay per day, which I will start tomorrow (of course). So that’s what’s kickstarting this site up again, and so really that’s all that needs to be said, in the interest of both brevity and not being a long-winded, self-indulgent asshole beyond whatever level of that dubious distinction is already conferred upon me by having a website under my own name.
Until I get that first new essay up, I thought I’d link to this piece, which is, in my opinion (and really I’m the only one thinking about it), the most important article I’ve written in the past five months. I had the opportunity to interview Lee Hirsch, director of the new documentary, “The Bully Project,” and our long conversation about his film (which I’ve seen twice) and experiences was both heartbreaking and inspiring (and I say this as largely a nihilist).
So, for the sake of the kids getting beaten up every day at school, please read this. Or at least skim it before you get back to looking at all the amateur photoshop work featured elsewhere on Tumblr.
As a blizzard batters nowhere Iowa, a nowhere boy sits underground, remembering. While his classmates take the day free from school to live in the moment, to be careless kids building igloos and riding sleds, this boy escapes to the past, watching home video of himself as a happy toddler, swaying to the music his mother plays on the radio.
Alex Hopkins’ daily struggle against bullying, clockwork punishment far harsher than the whipping winds of midwestern winter snow, is one of the heart-wrenching stories of isolation and childhoods destroyed featured in filmmaker Lee Hirsch’s new documentary, “The Bully Project.” A look into the lives — or, even more sadly, the taken lives — of victims of extreme bullying, the film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was quickly picked up by The Weinstein Company, works to personalize the issue of bullying, so often condemned in limp lip-service platitudes, with micro looks that speak to universal suffering.
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