July 21, 2012
The Looney Bin
There is a lunatic asylum in Bolivar, Tennessee. All states have them. Some have several. This one sits high upon a hill:
The grounds slope, immaculately, down to the highway, intermittently punctuated by grand live oaks. It is a beautiful, and fearsome vision. Fearsome, because one can easily imagine a security breach, and lunatics wandering down the slope in their nightgowns. Like a Halloween movie. This is where art directors come to envision a lunatic asylum for a film.
Business is slow in Bolivar, and in Milledgeville, which is where my state's nuthouse is. Because as a culture we have decided it is more humane to let the lunatics roam amongst us. To institutionalize them is cruel, as they might miss their fucking Friday cupcake.
Better to let them be free, so that random mass murders might exhibit themselves, and allow us to politicize it, and finger our opponents. Much better than locking up the lunatics. Which, by the way, creates jobs. Those Negroes beating on Randle McMurphy were earning a living wage, you know.
The bughouse in Florida was called Chattahoochee. Don't know if Patrick O'Hearn's song Chattahoochee Field Day referred to this place. North Carolina's bughouse was called Dorothea Dix Hospital.
We had a retard academy in Gainesville, Florida, as well, where Down's Syndrome patients were farmed out. It was called Sunland.
Posted by: Robert at July 21, 2012 7:23 PMRobert.... we have a retard academy in Washington, D.C. It's called the U.S. Government.
Annnnd,.....they're coming to take me away, ha-ha!, they're coming to take me away, ho-ho!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and they're coming to take me awaaaayyyy!!!!
/dr. demento
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Hail to thee, O Alma Mater...
Posted by: Cappy at July 22, 2012 3:49 AMWestern State Mental Institute. As someone who grew up in West Tennessee, I remember that if anyone said they were being "sent down to Bolivar", they meant they were crazy.
Posted by: TN Tuxedo at July 22, 2012 1:50 PMWestern Washington State has, or had, an academy for the retarded in Buckley. Locally, we had a family named Buckley, and one of their sons was, well, a little slow. This contributed to the local slang for "retardo" being "buckley" or "buck".
This caused me some embarrassment a few years later when I moved out of state and used the term "buck" in front of a black person.
In my home state of Indiana there was a mental facility built at Westville in 1945. If you drive around Westville after the fields are ploughed you see soil that looks like black velvet. The old farmers shook their heads at the idea of using acres of this for hospital grounds.
Posted by: NancyB at July 23, 2012 11:14 AMSince I, like you V-man, "like to fight and fuck too much." I say we take rooms. However, none of this dormitory living for me. I like a private room on the top floor if available. Hell, I'll even live in the attic. Crazy, yes that's me. I'll bet they have free WiFi too. Wake me up for meals.
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Posted by: non plagiarized term papers at July 25, 2012 8:00 AMI've done a drive-by before, but I never spent the night. Nice building, though.
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Posted by: feudisre at November 11, 2012 9:40 PM/dr. demento Annnnd,.....they're coming to take me away, ha-ha!, they're coming to take me away, ho-ho! Robert.... we have a retard academy in Washington, D.C. It's called the U.S. Government. To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and they're coming to take me awaaaayyyy!!!!
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